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Hace 12 horas · The elegant interior design is inspired by the original Sea Cloud, built in 1931 for Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress of the General Foods Corporation, with glossy wooden panels ...
Hace 5 días · According to friends, Merriweather conducted these tours with a special flourish and pride in the collection she’d cultivated. The collection was made accessible to the public in 1977 by erstwhile owner and collector Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Hace 5 días · Among the most impressive jewels on display is an Art Deco brooch with a 60 ct. emerald centerpiece, carved and engraved in India in the 17th century, formerly in the collection of General Foods heiress and art collector Marjorie Merriweather Post. “It’s a piece that really shows the life of a jewel over time,” says Stoehrer.
Hace 1 día · The elegant interior design is inspired by the original Sea Cloud, built in 1931 for Marjorie Merriweather Post, ... The Sea Cloud was the largest private sailing yacht in the world before Post handed it over to the U.S. Navy for use as a weather-reporting vessel during World War II.
A selection of menus for meals served by Marjorie Merriweather Post at the Hillwood Estate, Washington DC (1959-63) 4. upvotes ...
Hace 4 días · This was the life of the heir to the Post Postum cereal (Grape Nuts, Postum) fortune, Marjorie Merriweather Post. The invention of cereals as a breakfast option enabled (or at least were marketed to enable) women to spend less time in the kitchen preparing breakfast. For a two-part podcast on Majorie Post listen to (or read) the History Chicks:
Hace 4 días · Though boats were built at the shipyard before World War II, Fyfe was best known as the “Tiffany of boatyards,” where yachts belonging to J.P. Morgan, Marjorie Merriweather Post and others and were maintained and stored and where the Vim, a racer commissioned by Harold S. Vanderbilt, was readied for the 1958 America’s Cup.
