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• Title:The unfinished palazzo : life, love and art in Venice : the stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim / Judith Mackrell.
  
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• Author/Creator:Mackrell, Judith, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA7756.V53 M33 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA7756.V53 M33 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Casati Stampa, Luisa, 1881-1957--Homes and haunts--Italy--Venice.
  Delevingne, Doris, 1900-1942--Homes and haunts--Italy--Venice.
  Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979--Homes and haunts--Italy--Venice.
  Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (Venice, Italy)
  Upper class women--Italy--Venice--Biography.
  Palaces--Italy--Venice--History.
  Venice (Italy)--Social life and customs--20th century.
  
• Description:408 pages : illustrations (1 color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned and the project was abandoned with only one storey complete. Empty, unfinished, and in a gradual state of decay, the building was considered an eyesore. Yet in the early 20th century the Unfinished Palazzo's quality of fairytale abandonment, and its potential for transformation, were to attract and inspire three fascinating women at key moments in their lives: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim. Each chose the Palazzo Venier as the stage on which to build her own world of art and imagination, surrounded by an amazing supporting cast, from d'Annunzio and Nijinsky, via Noel Coward and Cecil Beaton, to Yoko Ono.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-397) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780500518663 (hardback)
  0500518661 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Luisa Casati: the living work of art
  Doris Castlerosse: the salonnière
  Peggy Guggenheim: the collector.