Weeks, Christopher, 1950- author.

"Perfectly delightful" : the life and gardens of Harvey Ladew / Christopher Weeks.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1999].
©1999

ix, 279 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 map ; 26 cm

He played piano with Cole Porter. He rode horseback in the Hollywood Hills with Clark Gable. He partied with Elsa Maxwell. He ate snails with the French writer Colette, in bed. It was all, as he often said, perfectly delightful. Few more colorful figures embellish American cultural history than the late Harvey S. Ladew, wealthy socialite, fox hunter, artist, traveler, and -- at his country estate outside Baltimore -- creator of the nation's most admired topiary garden. In "Perfectly Delightful: The Life and Gardens of Harvey Ladew", Christopher Weeks offers an immensely readable, chatty account of Ladew's life and the glittering world he inhabited.

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Ladew, Harvey.
Socialites Maryland Baltimore Region Biography.
Upper class Maryland Baltimore Region Social life and customs.
Personnalités Maryland Baltimore, Région de Biographies.
Classes supérieures Maryland Baltimore, Région de Mœurs et coutumes.
Manners and customs.
Socialites.
Upper class Social life and customs.
Baltimore Region (Md.) Biography.
Baltimore Region (Md.) Social life and customs.
Ladew Topiary Gardens (Monkton, Md.)
Baltimore, Région de (Mar.) Biographies.
Baltimore, Région de (Mar.) Moeurs et coutumes.
Ladew Topiary Gardens (Monkton, Mar.)
Maryland Baltimore Region.
Maryland Monkton Ladew Topiary Gardens.

Biography.
Biographies.
collective biographies.

Life and gardens of Harvey Ladew

Location: Library main 202076
Call No.: SB466.U53 L3 1999
Status: Available