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"Perfectly delightful" : the life and gardens of Harvey Ladew
- Title
- "Perfectly delightful" : the life and gardens of Harvey Ladew / Christopher Weeks.
- Author
- Weeks, Christopher, 1950-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1999].
- ©1999
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Details
- Description
- ix, 279 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 map; 26 cm
- Summary
- He played piano with Cole Porter. He rode horseback in the Hollywood Hills with Clark Gable. He partied with Elsa Maxwell. He ate snails with the French writer Colette, in bed. It was all, as he often said, perfectly delightful. Few more colorful figures embellish American cultural history than the late Harvey S. Ladew, wealthy socialite, fox hunter, artist, traveler, and -- at his country estate outside Baltimore -- creator of the nation's most admired topiary garden. In "Perfectly Delightful: The Life and Gardens of Harvey Ladew", Christopher Weeks offers an immensely readable, chatty account of Ladew's life and the glittering world he inhabited.
- Alternative Title
- Life and gardens of Harvey Ladew
- Subject
- Ladew, Harvey
- Socialites > Maryland > Baltimore Region > Biography
- Upper class > Maryland > Baltimore Region > Social life and customs
- Personnalités > Maryland > Baltimore, Région de > Biographies
- Classes supérieures > Maryland > Baltimore, Région de > Mœurs et coutumes
- Manners and customs
- Socialites
- Upper class > Social life and customs
- Baltimore Region (Md.) > Biography
- Baltimore Region (Md.) > Social life and customs
- Ladew Topiary Gardens (Monkton, Md.)
- Baltimore, Région de (Mar.) > Biographies
- Baltimore, Région de (Mar.) > Moeurs et coutumes
- Ladew Topiary Gardens (Monkton, Mar.)
- Maryland > Baltimore Region
- Maryland > Monkton > Ladew Topiary Gardens
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- v – Biographies.
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-272) and index.
- ISBN
- 0801861128
- 9780801861123
- LCCN
- 98046387
- OCLC
- ocm40113437
- 40113437
- SCSB-9700266
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library