1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor
I. Wilde Spaces: 2.`God Save the Queen': Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-a-brac diva
3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor
II. Country Living
4. Askesis and the Greek ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House
5. Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the decorative ideal
III. Stage Design for Living
6. Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity
7. Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance
8. Conclusion:manifesto for a queer home of One's own.