A house tour of KalLagerfeld's many beautiful homes via the Vogue archives.
; and, in a 34-year span, the magazine published eight features on the designer’s luxurious homes. Four of these were snapped by Lagerfeld, a polymath par excellence who understood that the art of living well was a far-reaching concept that extended beyond spaces and objects to encompass learning, manners, art, and the like. “Dresses are only interesting as part of everything else that’s going on,” he told the magazine in 1989.
For many years Lagerfeld would live beautifully in rooms of that style on the rue de l’Universite, where he favored candlelight over electricity, ate off Meissen plates, and walked on a rug that had belonged to Louis XV. André Leon Talley wittily described Lagerfeld at this time as having a “Versailles complex.” Lagerfeld's retreat into Enlightenment-era surroundings followed earlier style crushes. The first of the designer’s apartments to appear inwas his Art Deco set piece in Paris.
Next up were apartments in Monte Carlo and in Rome, which were put together in collaboration with the noted interior designer and Lagerfeld’s long-time friend, Andrée Putman. The former, filled with the colorful gaudiness of Memphis pieces—the living room featured a neon-hued boxing ring—was described by Putman as being “like a palace for a child.” Lagerfeld’s Italian lair, in contrast, was filled with Wiener Werkstätte pieces.
Perhaps Lagerfeld’s homiest home was Le Mée, a retreat near Fontainebleau outside Paris, where the “madcap” Princess Diane Beauvau Craon played chatelaine. Described inas “a fusion of neo-baroque styles,” the overall impression conveyed in photographs is one of airy coziness. Here Lagerfeld slept in a bedroom covered with a chintz fabric based on Louis XVI documents.
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