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At Home with W
In our 39-year history (face it—we’ll never admit to 40), we’ve gone home with more than a few notables. In 1976 Truman Capote invited us into his leopard-print lair to talk Proust and sex. We crawled into bed with Betty Catroux in 1974. And in 1993, on the eve of auctioning $20 million worth of his antiques, Hubert de Givenchy surveyed his Parisian hôtel particulier with W in tow. “Having things, only to put them in the basement, or buying a painting just to hide it, that’s nonsense,” said the designer. “You have to live with them or let someone else do it.” Here, a look back at lives well lived and homes well furnished.
May 2011
“Venice is the place David and I can go where we can sleep until 11, do
our own breakfast, and not worry about anybody else. It’s the only house
we have where there’s no one to look after us.” —Elton John, in 2003, on
his and partner David Furnish’s modest three-room Venetian hideaway,
grandly titled La Gioconda
May 2011
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