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A’Lelia Walker’s Dark Tower Salons of The Harlem Renaissance

Jam-packed into a smokey, lavish townhouse on 136th in the heart of New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, arts patron A’Lelia

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My Personal Evolution to Salons

Post College Days When I left college, I moved across the country to San Francisco without a job and no

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Queen B, Founder of French Salons – the Marquise de Rambouillet

Catherine de Vivonne, the Marquise of Rambouillet (1588–1665), brought the salon concept over with her when she moved to Paris

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The Iconic Salon Legacy of Gertrude Stein

On a small street off the Luxembourg Gardens called rue de Fleurus, or “the street of flowers,” is a small

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Controversial Salons Vol. 3 – WWII Exiles in Hollywood

On Sunday afternoons in the 1930s and ‘40s, an eclectic crowd would gather in the Santa Monica living room of

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Controversial Salons Vol. 2 – The Seance

In the late 1840s, a small wooden house in Hydesville, New York, drew an endless crowd of curious onlookers hoping

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The Italian Sister-in-Laws Who Salon’d Hardcore

Isabella d’Este (1474-1533) and Elisabetta Gonzaga (1471 – 1526) were sister-in-laws in Renaissance Italy who hosted salons that had a

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A Brief History of Western Etiquette

Believe it or not, “Get off my lawn!” is a rough translation of the original use of the word ‘etiquette’

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