"Merry Hall" 1953 NICHOLS, Beverley French Design 1975) was a French fashion

1975) was a French fashion designer

(1932-1939)

Both contain short stories about food peppered in among the recipes

w/ letter signed by Norman Hartnell in heart-print cellophane envelope

Ionides was an Art Deco architect and interior decorator and contributed to the Savoy Theatre and Claridges

"Merry Hall" 1953 NICHOLS, Beverley French Design 1975) was a French fashionNICHOLS, Beverley[319] pp. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1953First Edition8" x 5 5 8"w drawing by William McLarenFirst in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post war England. Though Mr. Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious.