The Observer magazine - 29 March 1987

The Observer magazine - 29 March 1987
Good condition for age - discolouration to page edges - some light wear - light bending at spine

JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR - For the past 16 years, 71-year-old Dorothea Shaw has lived alone in the remote and hostile jungle of Belize with only her animals and a short-wave radio for company. As an empath, she told Rodney Tyler, it's the only way she can cope with the world's pain and suffering
3 pages

MONEY FOR ART'S SAKE - Peter Watson looks at the true prices paid for works of art
Two and a half pages

GRAND PASSION - Maureen Cleave meets pianist Orrett Rhoden, a performer in the flamboyant, Russian style
Two and a half pages

FRENCH REVOLUTION - Percy Savage celebrates 40 years of the House of Dior
4 pages

A DIOR ORIGINAL - Model no 59 in the House of Dior's spring/summer '87 collection was once just a gleam in its creator's eye. Photographer Julio Donoso follows a couture gown from first sketch to final public appearance on the catwalk
2 page photo feature

PARADISE LOST - The once spectacular garden at La Mortola, on the Italian Riviera, has fallen into rack and ruin. Anna Pavord hopes for a revival
Four and a half pages

EALING CLASSIC - This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of the idiosyncratic architect Sir John Soane, whose talent for the picturesque is much appreciated by today's post-modernists. As part of the celebrations, his country house in Ealing - until recently the public library - has been restored and reopened to the public. Sarah Howell has visited it
3 pages

WELL RED (LORENZO HALL AND RICHIE STEVENS) - One and a quarter pages

ALICIA MARKOVA - "A room of my own"
2 pages