MCEVOY, Marian

Bill Willis Designing The Private World Of Marrakech" 2011 MCEVOY, Marian [text]

2011

w/ 356 lots Sotheby Parke Bernet New York October 8-9, 1976 9 1/4" x 8 3/4" Ronald Tree was a former editor of Forum Magazine who had moved to England in the 1930s and set up residence in the magnificent Ditchley Park Manor. A member of Parliament, Tree was also a friend of Churchill, who visited Ditchley Park often during the Second World War. After the war the Trees packed up the “country house” contents of the manor and moved it to New York, where they lived until the contents were sold at this auction. A wonderful auction of “country manor” furnishings and decorations. Churchill smoked and drank in these chairs... While involved with Huston and married to FitzGerald, Marietta began an affair with Ronald Tree, who was a grandson of retail magnate Marshall Field and MP for Harborough, Leicestershire. Tree and Peabody divorced their spouses at the end of World War II and married on July 26, 1947. Marietta moved into Tree's home, Ditchley Park, but found herself bored with English country life. Tree and most of his friends were Conservatives, and Democrat Marietta again found herself politically isolated. Their daughter Penelope was born in 1949. Short of money, Tree sold Ditchley and agreed to return to New York City with Marietta, her daughter Frances Fitzgerald and their own daughter, future '60s fashion model Penelope Tree...

Sotheby's New York 2014 12 1/4" x 9 1/4" Vol I: Masterworks [256] pp. 43 lots Vol II: Jewels & Objects of Vertu [256] pp. 267 lots Vol III: Interiors [396] pp. Lots 272 to 716 ...

This is a beautifully photographed book which features some of the few remaining examples of Bill Willis's work in his adopted homeland of Morocco. There was probably not another arc...

Large-scale photographer Troy House celebrates people’s primordial attraction to the beach. He travels the world capturing iconic, breathtaking scenes – often from a bird’s-eye view — from the world’s most beautiful known and secret places. The grand, limited-edition photographic prints fuse landscape with figuration while exploring global cultural themes. The mesmerizing images, with their precision detail, also afford us an opportunity to examine a moment fixed in time in “paradise.” This print is one of an edition of 20 total prints. La Mamounia...