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SAXON HENRY

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Tag: Peggy Guggenheim

Peggy Guggenheim marched to the beat of her own drum. I found out just how independent she was by reading her biography Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim by Mary Dearborn during a trip to Venice, Guggenheim’s chosen home town. I bought it in the museum bookstore at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni—the home she bought and filled with modern art, now the Guggenheim Collection.

I was engrossed in the book for much of the trip, finally finishing it as evening was softening the light reflecting from every watery surface during my last day there. Listening to the bells of the Basilica pummel the air with resplendent sound as I walked around town, I wondered if she heard forlornness in their pealing as she sashayed through the intentionally spare rooms of her palazzo, her handmade sandals slapping the marble and the fabric of her caftans flowing behind her. She is one of the women who fascinate me for her dogged desire to be different. When I write about her, the posts are filed under this tag.

Peggy Guggenheim at 81 in her palazzo in July 1979. Image: Marie Cosindas.
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Peggy Guggenheim Goes Off-Beat

Saxon Henry April 18, 2020 American poetsfamous writersgrand residencesItalymemoirsPeggy GuggenheimVenice

This essay exploring the world of Peggy Guggenheim in Venice is included in my new book The Modern Salonnière. The 34 other essays in the book…

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Peggy Guggenheim Visits Oculus Gallery

Saxon Henry May 22, 2016 American furniture manufacturersdecorating historydesign narrativesdocumentariesgrand residencesGroundbreakersItalylightingmemoirsNew York CitypaintersPeggy Guggenheimpopular moviesVenice

In 2009, I trekked to Venice with my dear friend JoAnn Locktov, the founder of Bella Figura Publications whose newest book Dream of Venice Architecture…

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Dream of Venice

Saxon Henry December 10, 2014 actors and actressesAmerican poetsarchitectural storytellingauthenticitydesign industry leadersEmotionality of ArchitectureHenry JamesItalynonfiction writersnovelistsPeggy GuggenheimpoetryVenice

When JoAnn Locktov asked me to contribute a poem to the book she was planning to publish in collaboration with photographer Charles Christopher, I didn’t…

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