Chris Madden, Lifestyle Author and Personality, Dies at 73

Her journal At Dwelling With Chris Madden was revealed by Hearst and despatched to subscribers of Good Housekeeping for about two years beginning in 2005.

She married Mr. Madden, then promoting director of New York Journal, in 1974. He would go on to be writer of Self, Home & Backyard and Bon Appétit, after which chief govt of his spouse’s firm, Chris Madden Inc.

Ann Christine Casson was born on June 1, 1948, in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Lengthy Island, considered one of 9 youngsters. Her father, Edward Gaynor Casson, was a gross sales govt on the Mohawk Brush Firm. Her mom, Ann Marie (Hill) Casson, was a homemaker who taught her youngsters to stitch and prepare dinner, and even upholster furnishings.

Chris was a mannequin as a toddler and a youngster. She majored in trend merchandising on the Vogue Institute of Know-how in Manhattan, although she dropped out in her senior yr to work as an assistant within the picture division of Sports activities Illustrated.

She labored within the publicity departments at a number of publishing homes — when she was simply 24, she was employed as director of publicity at Farrar, Straus & Giroux — till being fired by Simon & Schuster within the late Nineteen Seventies, Mr. Madden stated, for not being aggressive sufficient. She then began her personal publicity firm, Chris Madden & Associates (there have been no associates), of their residence on East 84th Avenue. Her shoppers included ebook publishers, an anti-censorship nonprofit and Ford Fashions.

On the identical time, she started to provide coffee-table books. She first wrote a cookbook (“The Compleat Lemon,” with Susan Lee, revealed in 1979) after which a ebook on New York Metropolis (“Manhattan,” with Jean-Claude Suares, revealed in 1981). After her ebook on decorators, “Inside Visions: Nice American Designers and the Showcase Home,” was revealed in 1988, she started to give attention to inside design.