Sonerset Maugham and his cook in the kitchen of his Villa Mauresque. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1954.

The writer Somerset Maugham, formally attired in a velvet dinner jacket and bow tie, stands in the kitchen of his Villa Mauresque in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 1954. He looks seriously towards the camera while his cook, in her white uniform, turns from the stove with a wide, warm smile, holding the lid of a pot. The domestic setting is candidly captured, with utensils hanging from the tiled walls and a cluttered shelf of tins and bottles above Maugham’s head, contrasting his formal presence in the well-used space.

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