Photographer: François Halard, courtesy of Rizzoli New York
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Inside the Homes of the 20th Century’s Lost Jet Set
John Richardson flitted through the top echelons of art, fashion, and finance for 70 years. Just weeks after his death, a new book celebrates the places he called home.
Art historian John Richardson died last week at the age of 95. Aside from his legacy as an author, Richardson was famous for what, and more importantly who, he knew.
Starting in the 1940s, he used his considerable charm and increasingly prodigious connections to meet, then befriend, a who’s who of the world’s rich and famous.