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Showmanship and fantasy: the designs of James Mont.(What modern was)(Biography)
The world of fine decorative arts has been populated by many colorful characters, but only one who could have stepped out of the pages of Damon Runyon or--if your tastes run to less sentimental portrayers of the criminal underworld--Mario Puzo.
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His name was James Mont, a.k.a. James Pess, a.k.a. Demetrios Pecintoglu--the name he was given at his birth in Istanbul--and his life and work were a mind-boggling admixture of the louche and the luxurious. From the early 1930s and into the 1960s, Mont was one of the most prominent designers and decorators on the East Coast. His forte was creating furniture that ...
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