the antiquarian
domino managing editor and cultural historian BRITTANY S. CHEVALIER makes us smarter about the popular designs we live with.
1 Syrie Maugham was born on July 10, 1879, at her family’s home in South Hackney, England. One of seven children, she was her parents’ unabashed favorite. Maugham married her first husband, the wealthy Henry Solomon Wellcome, when she was only 21. He was 48. Despite the age difference, she experienced her marriage as a liberation because the relationship, which lasted until 1910, had the quality of a honeymoon, filled with jaunts about the globe.
2 For the three years following her divorce, Maugham enjoyed the life of a single, affluent woman in London and Paris. Then, in 1913, while renovating her home in Regent’s Park, she discovered a…
