Ethereal curtains crafted from surplus textile samples create distinctive shadows across the original pinewood floors of OntheSq, a neo-Jacobean London home transformed by Irenie Studio.

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent.

But existentialist philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical novella The Inseparables, celebrating her own brilliant friend Élisabeth Lacoin, was considered too intimate and ...

This morning, Roberto De Simone passed away; the maestro died at the age of 91. The mayor of the metropolitan city of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi, immediately sent a message of condolence.

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Designer Irenie Cossey is adding the finishing touches to her transformed Grade II-listed neo-Jacobean house on the exclusive De Beauvoir Square in Hackney. Unbelievably unflappable, she’s ...

Born in 1910, Hélène de Beauvoir became an artist of modest renown. Her poetic, often challenging, but always enticing paintings gained some notoriety in her life but never achieved widespread ...

As the leading feminist philosopher of the 20th century, Simone de Beauvoir’s best-selling book The Second Sex exemplified the power of writing to bring women’s experiences out from the ...

This is Hélène de Beauvoir: artist, feminist, forgotten sister of Simone. She is 45 in this photograph, and living in Milan – the wife of the diplomat Lionel de Roulet. Her elder sister ...

On the 95th death anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir’s dear friend, Elisabeth Lacoin, we reread Beauvoir’s Les Inséparables or The Inseparables as a tribute to their friendship. Set in 1920s ...

It’s told through the occasionally intersecting lives of four brilliant young women philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil (both French), Russian-American Ayn Rand, and German-Jewish ...

She was sitting at the back of a classroom of adolescent school students when she heard the (male) teacher taking the class say, “OK, so there was this French writer guy called Simon de Beauvoir.” The ...