"Lucie Rie" 1987 BIRKS, Tony Shoe Trees

"Lucie Rie" 1987 BIRKS, Tony Shoe TreesBIRKS, Tony [224] pp. Alphabooks A & C Black 1987 11 1 4" x 9" Dame Lucie Rie, DBE (16 March 1902 1 April 1995) was an Austrian born British studio potter. Tony Birks' much praised biography was written with the full cooperation of the potter, whose friendship with the author spanned more than a quarter of a century It stands as the only complete account of the life and work of this extraordinary figure in European ceramics Lucie Rie made her first

He photographed people including Isabella Rossellini

In his hand is the card of The Feathered Serpent

or John as he was mostly known went with him

Few magazines can lay claim to a century of history or to having published work by so many extraordinary and distinguished photographers and writers as House & Garden

He was also an important medical reformer

Service for Six Guests

including a coat worn by actress María Félix

"one of the most popular and prolific romantic novelists of the twentieth century"

The last great enterprise of his life was devoted to ensuring that the nearly 2000 acres he still owned in New Jersey would be preserved as farmland in perpetuity

000 copies housed in a clamshell slipcase

Illustrated by David BergerJacket design by Politzer

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