time, a year later, with a Christie���s University
of Glasgow group led by the scholar, Juliet
Kinchin, now Curator of Design at MOMA.
All three of these friends, teachers and mentors meant much to me and spurred my development as an amateur decorator and
professional writer. Daniel provided the pure
aesthete���s view of this magnificent house,
Anne and Juliet that of the decorative arts
historian.
But it was Josephine who shaped���or twisted���my notion of what it meant to be female. I think for a time that, purely through
the medium of her house rather than her
biography, of which I knew little, Josephine
was a singular role model: seductive, steely
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