Flair Magazine November 1950 Country Living Issue, Tallulah Bankhead,

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The Flair Magazine November 1950 Country Living Issue, was one of only 12 issues of the magazine ever published as its lavish productions costs proved too great for it to continue. Editor Fleur Cowles, wife of publisher Gardener Cowles, was allowed to spare no expense in putting out her dream magazine, that was totally unique for its time, in which she would highlight her feature stories having considered “If a feature would be better in dimension than on flat pages, why not fold half-pages inside double-page spreads? If a feature was significant enough, why not bind it as ‘a little book’… giving it a special focus? If a feature was better ‘translated’ on textured paper, why use shiny paper? If a hand-set offset printing or hand-fed gravure suited a photographic essay better than letterpress, why not use it?"In this November 1950 Country Living Issue many of Cowles' imaginative presentation ideas for feature articles exist: A die-cut window in the Paul Weller photographed cover opens to a double page spread of early fox hunting print, inside there is a Great Tallulah Bankhead, article, on Louis Armstrong , another titled broadway curtains by Raoul Duffy,, one on Averell , Harriman,fox hunting, two emperors of Japan and much moreDifferent textured papers are utilized for various articles, and other innovative ideas are used....... read more

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