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A New Book Explores the Work of Geoffrey Bennison
A new monograph celebrates the impossibly stylish and well-connected world of legendary British tastemaker Geoffrey Bennison
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Interior designer Geoffrey Bennison at his London apartment in 1983.
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The decorator furnished the drawing room of Baron David de Rothschild’s French country house with a mother-of-pearl-inlaid mirror, sofas clad in a fabric of his design, and rush matting.
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The damask-lined drawing room he created for Rothschild’s Paris residence.
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Blue faux-marbled walls distinguish Princess Firyal of Jordan’s Paris dining room, which Bennison considered the best space he ever designed.
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The living room of Bennison’s own seaside apartment in Brighton, England.
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The decorator swathed the New York City bedroom of Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild in a rose-patterned linen.
