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Cafe Society: Socialites, Patrons, and Artists 1920-1960
Aristocrats, millionaires, painters, fashion designers, choreographers, and musicians of the café society fox-trot aboard cruise liners and mingle at dazzling parties in Paris. Exclusive, extravagant, and beautiful, these cosmopolitan socialites were the patrons who galvanized the phenomenal success of the greatest creators of the early twentieth century. It was a whirlwin...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
October 12th 2010
by Flammarion
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An amazing book that horoughly covers the fading of the last Great Age of European wealth, before the jet set turned vulgar and consumerist and were still concerned with making taste and fashion. I’m not familiar with the high society of France and Italy but it seems as though about every scion and social climber and gay gigolo from the middle of the last century is represented somewhere in this book. And they are wickedly self-interested and snobby. . .
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