Gwendoline Maud Syrie Maugham (néeBarnardo, formerly Wellcome; 10 July 1879 – 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and 1930s who popularised rooms decorated entirely in white.
Gwendoline Maud SyrieMaugham (née Barnardo, formerly Wellcome; 10 July 1879 – 25 July 1955) was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and...
best known of the MaughamsSyrieMaugham, wife Daphne Mabel Maugham, painter Robin Maugham (1967) [1966]. Somerset and all the Maughams. New American Library...
into her widely read 1913 book, The House in Good Taste. In England, SyrieMaugham became a legendary interior designer credited with designing the first...
Maud Syrie (1879–1955), known as Syrie like her mother, was married to wealthy businessman Henry Wellcome, and later to the writer Somerset Maugham, and...
speculates that SyrieMaugham may have used her high connections in the British government to have Haxton deported. Because Maugham and Haxton traveled...
Dolly Sisters and the divorcée Syrie Barnardo Wellcome, who would later become better known as the decorator SyrieMaugham. He also began and maintained...
Tiller Girls and met Cecil Beaton, who became a lifelong friend. Like SyrieMaugham and Elsie de Wolfe, society women who ran their own boutiques, Diana...
Delano and Aldrich in 1915 for Willard Straight. She had it decorated by SyrieMaugham. They also kept an estate named Oak Point on Bayville Avenue in Bayville...
House at Wilsford cum Lake, Wiltshire, which he had redecorated by SyrieMaugham. Though undoubtedly idle, he was not truly lethargic: he made several...
Hess; socialites Millicent Rogers, Daisy Fellowes, Mrs. Cole Porter, SyrieMaugham, and Hollywood stars Mary Pickford, Constance Bennett, Kay Francis,...
adequate. His first effort with decorating was perhaps in imitation of SyrieMaugham when he and Edgar painted everything in Miirrha's room white and put...
Dorothy. From 1922 to around 1939, they let it to SyrieMaugham, the estranged wife of Somerset Maugham. She added bedrooms and bathrooms to the Pavilion...
It was done in collaboration with the pioneering British decorator SyrieMaugham, and has some of the most iconic Surrealist works on display, including...
Park, London Peter Lowe, artist, born at Victoria Park, South Hackney SyrieMaugham, interior decorator Nicko McBrain, drummer for Iron Maiden Hoxton Tom...
of Negro art". Among his clients were the future interior decorator SyrieMaugham, and socialites such as Lady Curzon and Mrs. Hwfa Williams. His firm...
of the business's administration. The celebrated interior designer SyrieMaugham created the all-white decor that was her trademark style and Constance...
Mendelsohn, Wells Coates, and Brian O'Rorke, and interior decorators such as SyrieMaugham. A cast bronze bust of Marion Dorn, circa 1930-1931 made by Frank Owen...
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