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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Name in front. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Messel Dress Collection is a unique collection of exceptional garments embracing luxurious international haute couture fancy dress home-made and customised clothing worn by six generations of women from one extraordinary and creative family- Mary Ann Herapath Marion Sambourne Maud Messel Anne Countess of Rosse. Susan Viscountess de Vesci Alison Countess of Rosse and Anna Lady Oxmantown. At the heart of the collection is the clothing worn by Maud Messel (1875-1960) whose son became the internationally famous film and costume designer Oliver Messel. and her daughter Anne. Countess of Rosse (1902-92) whose son Lord Snowdon is the acclaimed photographer filmmaker and designer. Their garments have been lovingly kept collected and passed down though the family from 1865 to the present day. The surviving clothing tells the story of these six women and traces their rise in society from private middle-class comfort to the public stage of the aristocracy Their story takes us to Darmstadt in the 1860s to Linley Sambourne House in Kensington in the 1880s; to Nymans in West Sussex; to Birr Castle in County Offaly Ireland; to street markets in Florence in 1898 and finally to China in 1904 1935 and in 2004. Each generation were committed collectors and had an abiding interest in dressmaking embroidery and horticulture. The women’s maste over a period of nearly 135 years is revealed through clothing what is romantic in style influenced by historicison femininity ravel orientalism and a love of gardens and flowers.