In the words of Karl Lagerfeld, ‘I’d rather have books than diamonds.’ His Paris apartment and studio housed a reading collection of over 300,000 books, stacked floor to ceiling across nearly every wall
The work of Francis Alÿs across 2 books.
1. Le temps du sommeil - A collection of dreamlike miniature paintings
2. Sign Painting Project - Made with Mexico City sign painters Juan García, Emilio Rivera, and Enrique Huerta, Sign Painting Project explores ideas of copying, collaboration, and originality through reworked versions of Alÿs’s paintings.
Before Architectural Digest’s ‘Open Door’ series, house tours lived on printed pages
1. ‘Architectural Digest Celebrity Homes II’ The private worlds of thirty international personalities. Published by Knapp Press, 1981
2. Hubert de Givenchy’s Paris apartment designed by Charles Sévigny
3. Alexander Calder’s home studio in Saché, France
4. Alexander Calder’s home in Sachè, France
5. Princess Margaret’s Mustique home terrace
6. Barbara Streisand’s Manhattan Edwardian style bedroom
