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Ludwig Bemelmans’ charming intergenerational friendship with the late-in-life ‘First Lady of Interior Decoration’ provides an enormously enjoyable nostalgia trip to the sun-soaked glamour of Los Angeles, where de Wolfe surrounded herself with classic movie stars and a luminous parade of life’s oddities. With hilarity and mischief that de Wolfe would no doubt approve, ‘To the One I Love the Best’ lifts the curtain on 1950s Hollywood – a bygone world of extravagance and eccentricity, where the parties are held in circus tents and populated by ravishing movie stars.
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Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide – the thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz – a luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter in the 1920s. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he uncovers the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls. In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maitre d’hotel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans’ tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining.
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‘In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines…’ Pepito lives next door to Madeline and her friends. When he moves to London, he pines for the twelve little girls terribly. So Miss Clavel and her charges pay him a visit in London…and come home with a new friend!
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‘In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines…’ The small but feisty heroine, Madeline, and her charming Parisian world have been loved by children and adults alike for seventy years.
