A look at the introduction by Vogue's hamishbowles in 'Inside Tangier: Houses & Gardens' by Nicolò Castellini Baldissera.
in 1950. “The days slide by less noticed than foam in a waterfall.”
A beauteous troupe, we were soon swept into the whirlwind of Tangier life, spinning through the courtyards of York Castle for a “White Party” hosted by the gregarious Yves Vidal, and taking tea with the Honourable David Herbert, to the urgent chatter of parrots and cockatoos in the house on the New Mountain that he had painted the color of raspberry fool. The artist Lawrence Mynott, standing in for Hercule Poirot for our story, liked the city so much that he never left.
Feisty Mercedes Guitta held court for the expat community at her restaurant in a fading colonial villa, , brandishing a cigarette holder as Pekingese dogs and rodents gamboled underfoot. At the Villa Léon l’Africain, the courtly Richard Timewell lived surrounded by the brown English furniture and Georgian mezzotints that he had transported from his set at Albany, in a house whose prettiness encouraged his friend Cecil Beaton to take up his watercolor brush after a bad stroke.
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