Word: salons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workroom belongs to two sprightly grandes dames who are known collectively as Chez Ninon, a small and very expensive dress salon that was costly and exclusive long before it became famous as one of Mrs. Kennedy's favorite dress shops. The only difference now is that Proprietresses Nona McAdoo Park and Sophie Meldrim Shonnard, who would be wows in Auntie Mame, are so pleased to have Jackie's business that they flutter and worry that too much public notice will drive Mrs. Kennedy away. There is little chance of that; Chez Ninon has just what Mrs. Kennedy likes...
After the war, Fifth Avenue's Bonwit Teller invited them in to set up their own custom-order salon; with their family connections and friends in New York and Washington, Nona and Sophie found it easy to build a clientele. It was at Bonwit's in the early '50s that the wife of Senator Jack Kennedy began buying some of their clothes. Two years ago, they moved out to a new place of their own on Park Avenue. Jackie moved with them, and so did such customers as Mrs. William Paley, Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, Mrs. Charles...
Protestant Empire. In the 1880s, liberals and nationalists were vying for control of Bismarck's newly unified Germany. Mary took the side of the nationalists, whose religious fervor appealed to her. She befriended a fiery Lutheran preacher named Adolph Stoecker and installed him in her salon, where he led the company in hymns to the Fatherland, and excoriated Jews. Mary dreamed of a pure Protestant empire stretching from the U.S. to Europe to the Middle East, and rabid nationalists from all over Germany swarmed to sit at her feet. Under her influence, Wilhelm lost all interest in liberalism. When...
After noting certain stylistic deficiencies in the portrait of the young woman. Ster ling found documentation in the form of an obscure album containing drawings of every single painting exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1801. David had boycotted the exhibition - but the album contained several works by Constance Charpentier that year, including the painting thought to have been a David. Recently Dealer Wildenstein went back to the same al bum, which also includes sketches for the Salon of 1804. There he came upon the Frick's David under "Painting No. 114." But the legend in the catalogue read...
...Moreau still remains a mystery. His males are disconcertingly female; his females are almost invariably feline; the colors of his salon canvases-seasick green, hepatitis yellow, muddy brown-are faintly repellent. Moreau took as a principle something he called la belle inertie-a kind of suspended animation that seems less dreamlike than dead. Another Moreau doctrine was that of la richesse nècessaire. His big scenes from mythology and the Bible almost choke to death on their own bejeweled detail...