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A detail from Cecil Beaton’s Worldly Colour (Charles James evening dresses), 1948 - The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive Curiously, there has never been a major exhibition dedicated to Cecil Beaton’s ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art just purchased a flower tower of power. It’s an elaborate, 17th-century Dutch “Flower Pyramid,” made in tin-glazed earthenware. Blue-and-white pottery ...

For the first time, the diaries of photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton come to the stage to accompany his most iconic images of everyone from film stars like Marilyn Monroe to political figures ...

PHOTOBIOGRAPHY (255 pp.)—Cecil Beafon—Doubleday ($6). Little Cecil Beaton, aged three, hopped in bed with his “Mummie” one fine English morning and ran his eye over the day’s mail that lay scattered ...

A grandiose English manor house that for three decades was home to famed photographer Sir Cecil Beaton, has come on to the market in the Wiltshire countryside for £4 million (US$5 million). Known as ...

Cecil Beaton, in the 1960s, sitting in his indoor Winter Garden at Reddish House with his pet pug. © Cecil Beaton Archive, Condé Nast Like many people who came from ...

Cecil Beaton was a fashion, portrait and war photographer, a diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer. He is one of the most celebrated portrait ...

Foreword -- Introduction -- Ouverture: Beginnings -- Travesti: Curtain raisers -- Maestri: Patrons -- Cadenza: Principals -- Bel canto: Heavenly creatures ...

For the first time ever, the diaries of photographer and stylist Sir Cecil Beaton are dramatised for the stage, to accompany his most iconic and lesser-seen photographs and designs. Beaton’s ...