Billy Baldwin Remembers, Signed
[Signed by Billy Baldwin] Baldwin, Billy. Billy Baldwin Remembers. First Edition. 1974. Book is signed in bold red felt pen “Billy Baldwin” on the half title page.
There are few professions that fuse the personal with the professional as thoroughly as interior design. Billy Baldwin not only recognized that—he lived it. There was no distinction between client and friend in Baldwin’s dealings with Pauline de Rothschild, Babe Paley, Bunny Melon, Jacqueline Onassis, Cole Porter, and others in his client list/circle of friends. He uses that to abundant effect in this coffee-table-size illustrated memoir. As the dean of American decorators, he had the social clout to tell it like it was. As such, if someone comes off particularly well in this book (and many do), it is not mere flattery; it’s how it was.
“Barbara Paley leads the most demanding life with seeming effortlessness and charming sincerity. Her humor springs from her heart, making all the people she knows want to open their hearts to her. And they do! There is no more sympathetic listener.”
--Billy Baldwin