Persona Grata By Cecil Beaton Kenneth Gift Cards and banquet halls of Bemelmans'

and banquet halls of Bemelmans' years at the Hotel Splendide a thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz

Loosely based on the life of Bemelmans' friend Armand de la Rouchefoucauld

the pastoral flute player

Exquisitely detailed birds are both three-dimensional and double-sided so they mirror each other

Probably Bemelmans' best work and certainly his most famous essays

Persona Grata By Cecil Beaton Kenneth Gift Cards and banquet halls of Bemelmans'First American Edition Published 1954 A beautiful collection of 100 famous living people admired by the two contributors. Cecil Beaton provided the photographs and book design, including the dust jacket; Kenneth Tynan, the theatre critic, provided the text. Illustrated with sixty four plates Dust jacket is covered with mylar jacket protector