Fleur Cowles' Flair Magazine #9 - October 1950 “At Home And On The Town” Calder

Description: Fleur Cowles' Flair Magazine #9 - October, 1950 “At Home And On The Town” Alexander Calder Eleanor Roosevelt Contents Call Me [Ethel] Merman by Price, Madame Valentina; The New Society in Crime, The Real Pearle Mesta by Eleanor Roosevelt, Altamont, Reflection on Parties, How to Avoid a Square Stomach by Roger Price, etc.Fashions by B. H. Wragge, Hattie Carnegie, Fratti, Maximilian, Coro, Capezio, Traina-Norell, Balenciaga, Jacques Fath (Rene Gruau illustrations). Reflections on parties.TITLE: Flair Magazine MONTH/ YEAR: October 1950 VOLUME: 1 EDITION #: 9. The "At Home And On The Town" Issue. Publisher: Cowles Measures 25 x 33cms 10 " x 13 " Condition: Acceptable. Spine intact.An inner booklet has not been removed from the pages..Flair was the first magazine that became an art form. It was the first magazine to include mini cutouts and fold-outs attached inside. It was also the first magazine to include scented editions, suffusing the paper included in the Rose issue with rose-scented perfume, (some four decades before scent strips became ubiquitous)Flair existed for only one year and twelve issues, from February 1950 to January 1951. In that time, it published the likes of Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Swanson, John O’Hara, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, Gypsy Rose Lee, the Duchess of Windsor, Lucien Freud, Salvador Dalí, Colette, and Saul Steinberg, among others.Fleur Cowles on herself-“Few women have lived more multiple lives than I have: as editor: as that anomaly, an American president’s personal representative, decorated by six governments; as a writer of thirteen books and contributor to six others; as a painter, with fifty-one one-man exhibitions throughout the world; patron of the arts and sciences, irrepressible traveller and, more importantly, friend-gatherer”Condition: Pre-Owned Photographed in indirect natural light. ************Please Note- all items sold are vintage finds sourced from estate sales and thrift stores in the Hollywood area of Southern California.I do my best to catalog any flaws I find in the description of the item.Your purchase helps me continue to fund my artistic work as a photographer in Hollywood California. It also helps me to feed my increasingly finicky cat who now only wants the most expensive cat foodIf interested in my photography work simply use a search engine and type in the name Star Foreman

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