Babe paley apartment

At the New York home of broadcast titan William S. Paley and his glamorous wife, style was everything. Take a lesson in haute decoration circa 1965

Vintage interiors have so much scope for the imagination. I love looking at them and imagining what it was like to live in this space, at this time, seeing the world through the particular lens of the ’40s or ’60s or ’70s. And of course, it’s fascinating to watch decor trends come and go, to see these rooms that are so strange and yet at the same time so familiar.

At the New York home of broadcast titan William S. Paley and his glamorous wife, style was everything. Take a lesson in haute decoration circa 1965

"Four Fountains" was a clubby getaway where the Paleys hosted luminaries like Truman Capote.

Williams Lawrence on Instagram: "Her first week working at Parish-Hadley as a 22 year-old assistant, @bunnys_eye went to drop a bag of memo samples at Bill & Babe Paley’s apartment at 820 Fifth Avenue and got to take a look around. “It was the first time I’d seen this extraordinary art I’d studied in every Art History class hanging in someone’s apartment,” she recalls. The taxi-cab yellow walls and fine French furniture left an impression—but so did the fact that the room was still…

Paul Gauguin’s “The Seed of the Areoi,” 1892, in Bill and Babe Paley’s Albert Hadley-designed apartment at 820 Fifth Avenue. This view shows the later Albert Hadley repainting of the glossy “taxicab yellow” boiserie twenty-plus years after the first go-round. From (@art_collectors_at_home)

The society decorator designed for many famous names, including Princess Grace of Monaco and Diana Vreeland.

Babe Paley's New York apartment decorated by Billy Baldwin

Mark D. Sikes on Instagram: "Babe and William Paley’s double gallery entrance in NYC lined with book cases designed by Albert Hadley. Multi functional spaces are the chicest spaces. #mdsfavorites #alberthadley #babepaley"

Leah O’Connell Design on Instagram: "Those that follow me know I love set design so it will come as no surprise that I did a deep dive after watching Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. I am particularly smitten with Babe Paley's tented living room recreated for the series. Here's a good excerpt from @archdigestpro about the original that Billy Baldwin designed for Babe at the St. Regis apartment: Since the St. Regis’s architecture could not be changed, camouflaging the planes with fabric was ideal…

Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere, in the library of her New York City apartment. Photo by Fred R Conrad for the NY TIMES. Despite what your mother may have told you, it sometimes makes more sense to start with dessert first. As a prequel of sorts to a series of upcoming posts of The Devoted Classicist, this will not be in chronological order, but with the subject that first comes to mind. Those who followed International Society in the 1980s will conjure up this image at the mention…

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Marella Agnelli, of whom Truman Capote famously said, comparing her with Babe Paley, "If they were both in Tiffany's window, Marella would be more expensive." Photo: H. Clarke, 1956

The fashionable Babe lived with her husband, Bill, in a Louis XVI–style apartment, magically transformed into a tented oasis by the interior decorator

Babe Paley

Babe Paley at home, Manhasset, Long Island. Photo by John Rawlings.

Mitch Owens on Instagram: "Now that @ryanmurphyproductions ‘Feud: Capote vs The Swans’ is airing on @fxnetworks, here’s Babe and Bill Paley’s apartment at @stregisnewyork, as decorated in the 1950s by Billy Baldwin. In 2017, I wrote a lengthy in-depth story about the room for @archdigest. See the link in my bio for the anatomization. 📸 The Paley living room after Billy Baldwin lined it with $2.50-a-yard calico. Image from ‘The Finest Rooms by America’s Great Decorators’ (Viking Press…

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