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How They Decorated slideshow

  • Pauline de Rothschild's Paris home photographed for Vogue. A pair of low Louis XVI chairs can be seen here.
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    Photo: Horst P. Horst, Courtesy of Rizzoli.
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    Pauline de Rothschild’s Paris home, photographed for Vogue. A pair of low Louis XVI chairs can be seen here.

  • The modern home of Gabrielle van Zuylen also photographed for Vogue.
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    Photo: Horst P. Horst, Courtesy of Rizzoli.
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    The modern home of Gabrielle van Zuylen, also photographed for Vogue.

  • The library of Elsa Schiaparelli Paris apartment captured by artist Jeremiah Goodman.
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    Photograph: Jeremiah Goodman, Courtesy of Rizzoli
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    The library of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Paris apartment, captured by artist Jeremiah Goodman.

  • Bunny Mellon's Oak Spring Garden Library which contained a monumental 1954 Mark Rothko canvas.
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    Bunny Mellon’s Oak Spring Garden Library, which contained a monumental 1954 Mark Rothko canvas. Mellon, a horticultural enthusiast, once said, “a garden, like a library, is a whole made up of separate interests and mysteries.”

  • OKeeffes Sky Above Clouds Yellow Horizon and Clouds and Above the Clouds I as seen inside the artist's home.
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    Photo: Balthazar Korab, Courtesy of Rizzoli.
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    O’Keeffe’s Sky Above Clouds / Yellow Horizon and Clouds and Above the Clouds I, as seen inside the artist’s home.

  • An Alexander Calder mobil also hung in O'Keeffe's New Mexico home.
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    An Alexander Calder mobile also hung in O’Keeffe’s New Mexico home.