Ball, SimeonBiblio.com
SIMEON, MargaretBiblio.com
THE HISTORY OF LACE
1979rif. C80526London: Stainer & Bell 1979. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Dimension230mm H x 275mm.pp.144. ISBN:0852494459.B/w photographs illustrate the text. From the library of theatre designer & artist Mchael Stennett. Stennett's business card loosely inserted. Also loosely inserted two signed hand-written letters from the author to Stennett regarding his lace collection. Original publisher's cloth binding in blue with silver lettering at spine. Dust jacket design by in glossy blue shows a detail from late 16th/17th century Italian Buratto silk embroidery. B/w photograph of the author on rear flap of dust jacket./Michael Allan March Stennett 1946-2020 was a British stage designer. Commissions for numerous productions included Australian Opera Royal Opera House Covent Garden & The Royal Shakespeare Company. By 1994Stennett retired from the theatre to concentrate on painting. His portraits include a number of studies of Dame Joan Sutherland and in 1993 H.M. the Queen commissioned a portrait drawing of Sutherland for the Order of Merit series at Windsor Castle. In 2004 Stennett was commissioned to do a portrait drawing of Canon John White Precentor of St George's Chapel Windsor. As an artist he had his first solo show at Suffolk's Aldeburgh Theatre Gallery in 1999 with a second the following year also showing at Adonis Art Gallery London. His works are in the Royal Collection; the Victoria & Albert Theatre Museum; the New York Public Library and several performing arts museums around the world. He lived at Plantation Cottage Yoxford Suffolk and died at his home on 23 June 2020. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. Stainer & Bell hardcover
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