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June 07, 2005: Secrets of Chez Victor's Guest Book Revealed
"That guest book, which will be one of the highlights of the Antiquarian Book Fair in London this week, records them all from the 1960s through to 1987, about the time the restaurant was sold to new owners. David Hockney drew the plate, the coffee cup and glass at his dinner table while another artist, Felix Topolski, a Polish émigré and friend of George Bernard Shaw, did a charcoal sketch of a wine bottle."


