When it comes to a juicy scandal you can’t go past the Poms –
they’ve got it all sewn up. Ever heard
of a guy called Profumo, pretty unusual name, and a girl called Christine
Keeler? They were around in the 1960’s
so maybe before your time but hey it’s a great yarn and the inspiration for my ‘Cheeky
Chair’ series.
When you see the pic below that Aussie snapper Lewis Morley
took back in 1963 in London you’ll know it.
Here’s Christine Keeler, the reported call girl or at least good time
party girl, astride one of those designer Fritz Hansen chairs (bit the worse
for wear – the chair that is not CK) in the nuddy. The thing was she was having
a bit of a fling with old Profumo who just happened to be the Minister for the Cold
War and she was sort of mixed up with the Ruskies somehow so there you have it,
bingo, spies, nuclear missiles, parties at Country mansions – the lot. What ever happened to all those great ‘foreign
affairs’ ?
Photo by Lewis Morley 1963
Anyhow I got hold of some of the same, or similar, Fritz Hansen chairs and artified them with the bits of young CK Morley didn’t show. Cool huh? Well a lot of fun anyway and a great icebreaker at that dinner party when the in-laws call round to make sure their little girl’s looking after herself. Bound to set their minds at rest don’t you think?
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