Via Diana Vreeland and Babe Paley the @feudfx lifted George Stacey, conjurer of breezy American chic, into our gaze. He made the houses of Whitneys, Vreelands, Dukes, Paleys, Harrimans, Astors, debutantes, American princesses, and Hollywood royalty the stage sets on which the American Century unfolded. Like Mainbocher, he was meticulously trained in Paris, then rewrote the rules, blithely mixing Louis Xv consoles with terra cotta, Régence mirrors with rattan, blackamoors and cotton into reductive, refined, and surprising spaces. Albert Hadley, Billy Baldwin, Michael Taylor and Mark Hampton paid homage to Stacey in their own work. We still do. In @theswanspod we delved into how the combination of classical training, sass, and pizzazz NEVER fail.
George Stacey and the Creation of American Chic. @rizzolibooks
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