An Invitation to Vaux-le-Vicomte
This blog post is a book review of "Vaux-le-Vicomte: A Private Invitation."
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I began my career as a storyteller early, developing a fascination with journalism in high school as I wrote for and helped to edit my high school newspaper. I completed my undergraduate work in poetry and during my graduate work, I studied the great writers who explored aesthetics.
I became a professional journalist in the early 2000s, eventually writing for The New York Times and a wide array of shelter publications and travel magazines. Blogging and content strategy for clients have been in the mix for the past decade but in everything I do, I see the world as a journalist. I continue to write for luxury lifestyle/shelter publications, included the Florida Design editions.
I am also a published author. My books include Lives Illuminated, The Modern Salonnière, Anywhere But Here, Stranded on the Road to Promise, Collaborations: A Houston Penthouse, and Four Florida Moderns.
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Specialties
House & Garden
Skills
- Blog posts
- Books
- Content marketing
- Essays
- Feature writing
- Ghostwriting
- SEO
- Web copy
Writing Credits
You can see all writing credits on my journalism website that is linked here in my profile.
Book Credits
You can see all of my book credits on saxonhenry.com that is linked here in my profile.
Selected Work
As author, unless indicated otherwise.
The Modern Salonnière
The Modern Salonniere is a collection of essays that combines Saxon Henry’s passions of traveling, reading, and creative nonfiction. Locale by locale and book by book, Saxon brings the historical figures she has chosen as her subjects to life. Stroll through Paris while imagining the era when the Emperor Julian the Apostate ruled Lutetia, parts of which still stand at the Thermes de Cluny. Walk London’s streets in search of the fin-de-si cle haunts where the Decadents were determined to turn convention on its ear. Trek to Croton-on-Hudson, New York, where Edna St-Vincent Millay summered with her avant-garde chums. Follow Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Jim Morrison in Paris, Denys Finch-Hatton in Africa, Ottoline Morrell in Oxford, and Henry James in a string of Italian towns in Tuscany. These and many other characters who were inspiring enough that their stories continue to provoke curiosity people the narratives in The Modern Salonniere.
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Artisanal Ceramic Accessories and Lamps
This blog post for a client explores the artisanship of the ceramic accessories and lamps they source, which has a centuries-old history in Thailand.
Women Celebrated in New Mosaics
This is a blog post that explores the philosophy behind a new mosaic collection by New Ravenna, the article on Design Diary, the home furnishings blog by Saxon Henry.
