Mary Grant Price was a costume designer on Broadway – Vincent Price studied art and art history before becoming an actor in the 1930s – between them they had quite a gracious design-lifestyle-thing going on…
Under the Mission cross on the fireplace our houseman, Harry Mullen, ladles Café Brûlot for our guest. This enormous living room was Mary’s greatest challenge – like trying to make Grand Central cozy. After dinner coffee around the fireplace achieves an intimacy, thanks to the paintings and objects that are so personal a part of our lives. “A Treasury of Great Recipes” by Mary and Vincent Price
Thanksgiving dinner at our house is eaten at our great round table set festively for the occasion. We serve from the buffet under a favorite painting that is – to put it mildly – modern. Better, we believe, than having an ancestor, real or purchased, peering over your shoulder at every mouthful. “A Treasury of Great Recipes” by Mary and Vincent Price
The art museum they endowed on the campus of East Los Angeles College: http://vincentpriceartmuseum.org/about/history/