Bemelmans

[ bee-muhl-muhnz, bem-uhl- ]

noun

1. Lud·wig [luhd, -wig, lood, -], 1898–1962, U.S. humorous satirist and painter; born in Austria: author and illustrator of children's books.

Example Sentences

And after many years of filming on location — among them Versailles, the Park Hyatt Tokyo, Bemelmans and the Chateau Marmont — for “Priscilla,” Coppola had to build sets and “find Graceland in Toronto.”

From Seattle Times

If I had the opportunity to buy him a drink — say, at Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel, a suitably conservative locale — I imagine we could have a friendly conversation, because it would not be undone by lies.

From Salon

In New York City, a new generation is flocking to historic venues — Bemelmans in the Carlyle Hotel, the Plaza Hotel, the Rainbow Room — to experience the glamour and sophistication of the classic cocktail lounges and hotels.

From Washington Post

“Tom may be in Logan’s camp, but it’s not an easy camp to be in,” Macfadyen said on a February afternoon, sipping a bitters and soda in Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel.

From New York Times

The book is generously intertextual, with allusions to “Moby-Dick” and “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Great Expectations”; to John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut and Graham Greene; and, more surprisingly, to Ludwig Bemelmans’s “Madeline.”

From New York Times