Item #180415 The Best of Flair. Fleur Cowles.
The Best of Flair
The Best of Flair
The Best of Flair
The Best of Flair
The Best of Flair
The Best of Flair
The Best of Flair
The Best of Flair

The Best of Flair

New York: Rizzoli, 1999. Second. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards with plain black spine; bright red dust jacket with black and cream lettering, color illustration and cut out design showing boards underneath on front. Issued in a bright red cloth slipcase with white lettering. 337 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color with several folded illustrations. VG/VG/Good (slight shelfwear to dust jacket. Book is very crisp and clean. Slipcase hasminor wear). Item #180415
ISBN: 9780847822294

This highly sought-after volume detailing one of the most influential magazines of the twentieth century is now back in print at a newly affordable price. In 1950, Fleur Cowles established what would become one of the most important and talked about magazines ever created. Critically lauded for its sharp mix of clothes, literature, art, travel, decor, theater, and humor, Flair made publishing history with its combination of eclectic editorial content and lavish production quality. Recalled as "the first magazine that became an art form," The Best of Flair is a compilation of the magazines best content as chosen by the woman who created it. Along with its distinctive production values, Flair also features interviews and contributions from some of the most noted artists and celebrities of the past fifty years, including Lucian Freud, Jean Cocteau, Tallulah Bankhead, Saul Steinberg, Salvador Dalí, Simone de Beauvoir, Walker Evans, James Michener, Ogden Nash, Gypsy Rose Lee, Clare Boothe Luce, George Bernard Shaw, John OHara, Margaret Mead, and Tennessee Williams. Now, more than ten years after this book was first published by Rizzoli, and more than fifty years after the magazine ceased publication, this facsimile edition offers the same ingenious bookmaking of its predecessor, including multiple gatefolds with die-cuts, booklets, and accordion folder leaflets. -Publisher description. Contents include: Introduction / Fleur Cowles -- Tribute to a soldier -- Foreword / Dominick Dunne -- Art. Freud the Younger, February 1950 ; Winston Churchill, January 1951 / John Rothenstein ; André Bauchant, April 1950 ; Tamayo, Flair Annual 1953 ; Victorian Rose, May 1950 ; Open garden of hearts, Flair Annual 1953 / Ruthuen Todd ; Degas sketchbook, Flair Annual 1953 ; Portraits (booklet), March 1950 / Steinberg ; Salvador Dali's Mimicry in Nature, Flair Annual 1953 -- Flair Covers. Spain, March 1950 ; Paris, April 1950 ; The Rose, May 1950 ; All male issue, July 1950 ; College issue, August 1950 -- Travel. Enchanted Paris, April 1950 / Evangeline Bruce ; Place Vendôme, April 1950 ; History is a column, April 1950 ; Paris is a man's town (booklet), April 1950 ; Britain and 1951, January 1951 ; New England summer, June 1950 ; Hawaii, December 1950 / James Michener ; Spain: Flair surveys Spain for the Holy Year, March 1950 ; Ten centuries of Spanish piety, March 1950 / Stuart Preston ; The gypsy of angels of Spain, March 1950 / Salvador Dalí ; Morocco, February 1950 / Patrick O'Higgins -- Decor. Paris House of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, February 1950 ; Fontainbleau, April 1950 ; Your city garden, Flair Annual, 1953 ; And so to bed, March 1950 -- It's About Time. Women put a new face on love, April 1950 / Simone de Beauvoir ; In poetry, July 1950 / Ogden Nash ; The relationship between the sexes, February 1950 / Barbara Ward ; Is time friend or foe?, September 1950 / Clare Booth Luce ; The deterioration of the present century, November 1950 / George Bernard Shaw ; Stop giving second-rate reasons for first-rate behavior, March 1950 / Margaret Mead; Fashion. Red-black-white, August 1950 ; The flower and the stem, May 1950 ; French fashion fall 1950, September 1950 ; Gruau art in fashion (booklet), January 1950 ; You are known by the colors you keep, February 1950 ; All brim or all crown, March 1950 ; Bright for beach, January 1951 ; The biggest news in men's footwear, July 1950 -- Comment. The new society in Moscow, January 1951 / Vasili Kotov ; The new Hollywood, March 1950 / Cecelia Ager ; The new Bohemia, February 1950 / Charles J. Rolo ; The new expense account society, May 1950 / John O'Hara ; My ideal woman, July 1950 ; One foot in the White House, November 1950 / William Lowe -- Literature. Letter to Americans (booklet), February 1950 / Jean Cocteau ; Life with Papa, January 1951 / Mary Hemingway ; On Satchmo, November 1950 / Tallulah Bankhead ; Easter, April 1950 / Françoic Mauriac ; The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin, February 1950 / Tennessee Williams ; Christmas at Bowen's Court, December 1950 / Elizabeth Bowen ; I was with it (booklet), June 1950 / Gypsy Rose Lee ; On stony ground, May 1950 / William Sansom ; A child of the high seas, April 1950 / Jules Supervielle ; Sido and I, April 1950 / Colette ; Smile and farewell, January 1951. "The text and art in this book were reproduced from the original material that appeared in Flair Magazine published between February 1950 and January 1951."

OCLC: 43473188

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