Photos: An Eye for Beauty
The skincare legend Terry de Gunzburg has built an empire based on her unerring taste—which is in ample evidence in her Manhattan apartment.
Terry de Gunzburg in her dining room, with Thomas Houseago’s Portrait Series I, 2010.
Pablo Picasso’s Buste de Femme, 1955, hangs above Alexandre Noll’s 1925 four-panel screen; on the shelves at left, ceramics by Picasso; on the shelves at right, ceramics by Tatsuzo Shimaoka; the armchairs are midcentury Paul Dupré-Lafon.
The dining room, with Francis Bacon’s Studies From the Human Body: A Triptych, 1979; Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann’s 1930s dining chairs; Ivan de Silva Bruhns’s 1930s carpet; Jean Dunand’s 1920s sideboard.
Beauford Delaney’s Untitled, above André Groult’s 1920s cabinet, with Picasso’s Footballeur, 1965, inside; Klara Kristalova’s Red Head II, 2006 (on floor); Anselm Reyle’s Untitled, 2006 (right wall).
Jean-Paul Riopelle’s Derive, 1952, sits with Salvador Dalí’s Buste de Femme, 1977.
Jean Dunand designed the gold and lacquered doors, leading from the living room to the dining room, in Paris in 1929.
Two Picasso circa-1956 ceramic plates flank Max Ernst’s Kopf, 1948.
On far-left wall is Beauford Delaney’s Still Life With Idol, circa 1945; Georg Baselitz’s Dresdner Frauen: Die Kranke aus Radebeul, 2000, is in far-left corner; Alexander Calder’s Untitled Mobile, 1963 hangs; Serge Poliakoff’s Composition, Blue, Red, and Grey, 1955, sits above the mantel; Damien Hirst’s Untitled is on the near- right wall; Klara Kristalova’s Days and Nights, 2007, and Cryboy, 2007, are on tables (right and center).
