Interior Featuring Dolphin Chair
Her clients included Stephen Tennant, Babe Paley, Bunny Mellon, Clare Boothe Luce, Celia Tobin Clark, Wallis
Simpson and Edward VIII. I met one of her most colorful
clients, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, a beauty even in
maturity, in the early eighties at Windsor Great Park. The
Duchess, whose parents were principal Maugham clients, had lived for years after their death with Maugham���s
creations. When she discovered that I owned a decorative textile company, our conversation quickly turned to
furniture: we both agreed that the Maugham-designed
open armed, deep, high-backed lounge chair was timeHYLAND