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Rosamond Bernier, founder/editor of L'OEIL magazine (–) and lecturer extraordinaire, welcomed publisher Phong Bui to her Upper East Side home to talk.
Rosamond Bernier (–) was a journalist and lecturer known for founding the Paris-based magazine L'oeil and for her presentations on art history at the....
Rosamond Bernier
American journalist (1916–2016)
Rosamond Bernier (1916–2016) was a journalist and lecturer known for founding the Paris-based magazine L'oeil and for her presentations on art history at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1][2]
Life and career
Bernier was born Rosamond Margaret Rosenbaum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At the invitation of her father, the head of the board of directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra, famous people in the classical music field visited her home, including composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and conductor Leopold Stokowski.
While visiting Mexico during college, at a rehearsal conducted by Carlos Chavez, she met Aaron Copland, who was playing the piano, and muralist Diego Rivera and painter Frida Kahlo, and befriended them all.[3]
She abandoned college (Sarah Lawrence) and in 1946 moved to France, where she served as the first European Features Editor at Vogue.
Two years later, she married the journalist