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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Syrie_MaughamSyrie Maugham - Wikipedia

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   Syrie Maugham was a leading British interior decorator of the 1920s and 1930s who popularised rooms decorated entirely in white. She was the daughter of a charity founder, the ex-wife of a pharmaceutical tycoon, and the lover and mother of novelist W. Somerset Maugham.

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3. encyclopedia.design › 2024/04/19 › syrie-maugham-aSyrie Maugham: A Visionary in White - Encyclopedia of Design

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   Apr 19, 2024 · Learn about Syrie Maugham, a pioneer of interior and furniture design who revolutionised the decorative arts with her signature white rooms and bold techniques. Explore her life, career, projects, and legacy through the lens of the encyclopedia of design.

4. www.architecturaldigest.com › story › maughamDesign Legends: Syrie Maugham - Architectural Digest

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   Dec 31, 1999 · Born in London in 1879, Maugham opened a shop on Baker Street in 1922. As it flourished, she began decorating, taking on projects in Palm Beach and California and adding shops in New York and ...

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6. womenwhomeantbusiness.com › 2021/09/20 › syrieSyrie Maugham (1879-1955) – Women Who Meant Business

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   Sep 20, 2021 · Learn about Syrie Maugham, the woman who popularized the all-white interiors trend in the 1920s and 1930s. Discover her life story, her business ventures, and her relationships with famous men and women.

7. www.anothermag.com › fashion-beauty › 9499Syrie Maugham, the Surreptitious Star of Chanel Couture

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   Feb 2, 2017 · Learn about Syrie Maugham, the influential interior designer who modernised the high society home in the 1920s and 30s and inspired Karl Lagerfeld's latest collection for Chanel. Discover her signature style of white rooms, pickled furniture and plump couches.

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8. www.nytimes.com › t-magazine › 02talk-maugham-tHigh Gloss - The New York Times

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   Apr 28, 2010 · High Gloss. If you are strong enough not to be moved by dolphin console tables and rococo plasterwork, Syrie Maugham is probably nothing more to you than the wife of the sulfurous literary lion W ...

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   Who was Syrie Maugham?

   • Syrie Maugham was born in England on 10 July 1879. She was the daughter of Thomas John Barnardo, the founder of the Barnardo's charity for destitute children, and his wife, Sarah Louise "Syrie" Elmslie. Gwendoline was the eldest girl in a family of six. As an adult, she preferred to be known as her last christian name (Syrie).

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   What did Syrie Maugham do in 1927?

   • View Slideshow While other designers were thinking about white, writing about white and using white generously in 1927, Syrie Maugham braved it and went all out with pots of paint, buckets of bleach, yards of white satin, wool and silk, white velvet lampshades and even white lilies for her own drawing room in London.

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   Was Syrie Maugham a white architect?

   • Syrie Maugham’s drawing room at 213 King’s Road, shown in The Studio, February 1933. Syrie was not the only designer at this time advocating for white interiors: in his 1926 book, ‘Colour and Interior Decoration’, the architect Basil Ionides also made the case for white.

   Syrie Maugham (1879-1955) – Women Who Meant Business

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   Why did Maugham have a relationship with Syrie?

   • While Maugham was mainly interested in men, he had had relationships with women and began an affair with Syrie. On the outbreak of war, Maugham went to serve as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross and there met the man who would become his partner for the next thirty years, Gerald Haxton.

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   How did Syrie meet William Somerset Maugham?

   • At the end of 1913, Syrie met the novelist and playwright William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965). While Maugham was mainly interested in men, he had had relationships with women and began an affair with Syrie.

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   Who is Mrs Maugham?

   • ‘Energetic, brilliant, cultured Mrs Maugham is an outstanding example of how a talented and clever woman can succeed in business by sheer hard work, courage and a genius for decorating and furnishing’. So gushed the design writer Derek Patmore in July 1931.

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10. www.historytoday.com › archive › interior-worldInterior World of the White Queen - History Today

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    Jan 1, 2013 · Frances Larson tells her story. ‘You’re too late, my dear, much too late,’ the American interior decorator, Elsie de Wolfe, told an ambitious Syrie Maugham in 1920. ‘The decorating field is already overcrowded.’. It was an easy quip to make, but the ‘decorating field’ was still small enough for de Wolfe to know her competitors ...