{"product_id":"redeeming-features-a-memoir-9780307271679","title":"Redeeming Features: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom British interior designer Nicholas Haslam  a dazzling and witty account of a frenetic and full lifefrom the 1940s to the presentin Europe and America  in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time.  Haslam has found himself at the center of some of the most interesting circles wherever he isat parties  opening nights  royal weddings. In London in the late 1950s he crossed pathsand morewith Cecil Beaton  Francis Bacon  Diana Cooper  Greta Garbo  Lucian Freud  David Hockney  David Bailey  and Nol Coward. A time living in the still unspoiled south of France was an education in everything from the work of Buuel to the style of toreros like Domingun and Ordez. In Paris he met Jean Cocteau and Janet Flanner  and  in Saint-Tropez  danced with Brigitte Bardot. In the 1960s  in New York  he encountered Dorothy Parker  Cole Porter  Andy Warhol  Jack Kennedy  Joan Didion  and Marilyn Monroe while working in the art department at Vogue and later as art director  following Henry Wolf  at Huntington Hartfords Show magazine. After Show  Haslam moved to a ranch in Arizona to raise Arabian horsesTruman Capote and John Richardson  among others  came to stayand he began designing and commuting to Los Angeles to decorate for the stars.  Back in England in the 1980s  he worked on David Baileys Ritz magazine  attended the wedding of his cousin Diana Spencer  and designed for everyone from the financier James Goldsmith to rock star Bryan Ferry.  Redeeming Features is about much more than documenting a life among the celebrated and the eccentric: it is a vivid  at times humorous and moving portrait of a way of life that has all but disappeared. Haslam has an exacting eye for the telling detail and his story is a compelling and wholly fascinating document of our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280102776885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307271676","price":34.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307271679.jpg?v=1780621046","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/redeeming-features-a-memoir-9780307271679","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}