Even the iron chandelier in the atelier is a riot of flowers, ornamented with beaded blossoms. Her spring 2014 ready-to-wear collection, like her bed canopy and the carpets, is dominated by floral motifs. Newhouse’s decor, art, and fashion are as tightly interwoven as the lush fabrics she favors. “Pair it with a black bra and black lace leggings and you’re instantly sexy,” says Newhouse, who is a member of Vanity Fair’s International Best-Dressed List. The looks range from impeccable metallic-tweed suits to a diaphanous silk dress with a Peter Pan collar and accordion-pleated skirt. This is where Newhouse does the creative work on her line, which is sold at select boutiques from Seattle to Palm Beach, Florida, and on her website. The atelier, a large salmon-pink sitting room adjacent to a terrace with breathtaking city views, is lit by mid-20th-century Vallauris ceramic lamps. Beside the canopy bed in the turquoise master suite hangs a shadow box of origami roses, a Mother’s Day gift made several years ago by Newhouse’s son. Even sentimental works of art find a place in the apartment. Equally unlikely juxtapositions are found in the scarlet-walled smoking room, where 19th-century hunting prints meet contemporary paintings by David Bowes and George Condo. In the staircase leading to the second floor, where Newhouse has her atelier, a 1920s hooked runner bearing bucolic imagery ascends past arrangements of early-20th-century fashion illustrations by Georges Lepape and Carl Erickson grouped with paintings of single-cell organisms by artist Robert Hawkins. Beneath the room’s chair rail is a William Morris–style wallpaper splashed with flowering vines that complements an assortment of Arts and Crafts ceramics. The space is now painted an elusive neutral that hovers between almond and dusty rose. To her regret Newhouse couldn't salvage the Fortuny fabric Cumming had used to upholster the living room walls because it had become too threadbare (she did, however, repurpose a fragment of the material in a self-portrait). The black-lacquer mirrors are antique, the sofa is upholstered in a Rubelli fabric, and the needlepoint carpet in the foreground is by Stark. “I went antiques shopping while Mark fished,” Newhouse explains.Īn antique Baccarat chandelier from Regency Home overlooks the living room, where the sheer curtains are made from a Christopher Hyland silk gauze. To furnish it they brought many belongings from their British-style manor house in Summit, New Jersey, including 19th-century treasures they had collected during numerous trips to the English countryside. Newhouse and her husband, Mark-an executive with Advance Publications, which is owned by his family (and is the parent company of Condé Nast, publisher of AD)-purchased the Park Avenue duplex in 1993, after their children, Jesse and Charlotte, had taken off for boarding school. The moment one steps into the entrance hall-where a grand mahogany sideboard, a homey hooked rug, and baroque double doors make unexpected companions-one is overcome by a world where past meets present, high meets low, and town meets country. Perched at the top of a stately 1920s building by architect Rosario Candela, the Manhattan penthouse of philanthropist and fashion designer Lorry Newhouse has all the whimsy of a garden folly on a baronial estate. This article originally appeared in the September 2013 issue of Architectural Digest.
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