A chronicle of an artist's life in which she discusses the artists who have had the greatest influence on her work and whose work she has collected over the years. She explains the link between her own art and her intent as a collector.

An artist's journey

Cowles, Fleur

Collins

To Be a Unicorn

Literature & Fiction

VAVRA, Robert

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

She Made Friends and Kept Them

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

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 magazine’s 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 O’Hara, 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.

The Best of Flair

Arts & Photography

She Made Friends and Kept Them: An Anecdotal Memoir

Few women - or men - have led such varied lives as Fleur Cowles. A highly distinguished journalist and editor of Flair, one of America's top magazines during the 1950s, Fleur Cowles is best known today for the magic realism of her paintings - paintings peopled by jungle beasts, huge flowers and overgrown birds - and for her many famous friends. It is these who fill the pages of her book. She recalls picnicking with Cary Grant in Spain, the weekend Marilyn Monroe spent hiding in her Connecticut home, her many trips as personal emissary for Eisenhower, the time she spent in Argentina and her relationship with Eva Peron. She writes about her experiences on the Korean war front. She includes many glimpses of her close friendship with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Others who appear in her book include Margot Fonteyn, Isak Dinesen, Grace Kelly, the Dalai Lama, Harold Wilson, Haile Selassie, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Imelda Marcos, Harold Macmillan, Luciano Pavarotti, Charlie Chaplin, Coco Chanel, Ernest Hemingway and many more. Tough but never malicious, self-respecting but never self-serving, Fleur Cowles's book shares with us the unknown stories of the men and women who have shaped twentieth-century history.

What Fleur Cowles brings to her warm and wide-armed book is a sense of generosity, and embraceable quality that is uniquely hers. "Fleur Cowles sits you down beside her far-flung friends--royal and regular--and provides delicious moments that are the sidebars of history."--Liz Carpenter.

Community & Culture

Forget any preconceptions about flower arranging that you have, and certainly forget all the hard and fast professional rules about it that you may have read. This book overcomes both the restrictive conventions and the paraphernalia of traditional flower arrangement.

Flower Decorations: A New Approach to Flower Arranging

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Villard

U. S. edition of this Fleur Cowles classic.

The Flower Game

William Morrow and Company

Book by Cowles, Fleur, Prince Philip

If I were an animal

Prince Philip

Reference & Collections

Morrow

An illustrated poem about the perceived barriers that frustrate the love of a mare and a unicorn.

United States

William Morrow & Co.

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An artist's journey

To Be a Unicorn

She Made Friends and Kept Them

The Best of Flair

She Made Friends and Kept Them: An Anecdotal Memoir

She Made Friends and Kept Them: An Anecdotal Memoir

Flower Decorations: A New Approach to Flower Arranging

The Flower Game

If I were an animal

To Be a Unicorn