---Like this bed, sold at the Christies auction of her effects at Duke Farms a few years back. Wouldn't mind having that in my inventory. But, we've got some serious scale problems going on with the other stuff around it....and wouldn't that chaise block the view of the fire in the Steuben glass framed fireplace? Edit, edit, edit.
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You're right about the scale. The overall effect is messy and rather twee.
Ooooohh, I think that I would never get out of bed if I had that beauty in my home!
You are right about La Duke. Lots of lovely money, not so much in the innate taste department. If I had to choose between the two, though, I'd opt for what she had...
The bed is beautiful!
I've read that she herself had no taste whatsover, and basically went upon the advice of whatever professional was around at the time, often to diasasterous consequences. Hence she had disparate homes and clothing with no true 'eye' as you say.
I have a couple of clients like that. Almost impossible to guide them gracefully to the right thing. And Architect Design, Trademark, welcome. I've enjoyed your blog for some time now, and glad to see you visit here. Scroll back a little for Mizz Duke's mother-in-law's summer house at Bar Harbor---also purchased taste.
I agree the bed is heavenly. And I too agree that DD's reputation as a style icon seems very misplaced. However close or far away from the truth, the movie with Susan Sarandon & Ralf Fiennes, ("Bernard & Doris) was really rather good. Have you seen it?
Yes, I have seen it, and it was a terrific movie---oh, that red gown!
I am a new visitor. Love your post.
I am telling my daughter about you.
Yvonne from Maine.
An immediate instinct to just move it all around. The bed is to die-but the pictures not. edit indeed. G
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