“If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional—and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.”
– Lee Radziwill
This month’s CREATING A ROOM features the Park Avenue dining room of Lee Radziwill that graced the cover of Architectural Digest in January 1982.
Lee Radziwill was known to most as a fashion icon, a perennial on the worlds best dressed list, a style maker and sister of Jacqueline Kennedy.
Lee had an easy, elegant style and a love of fashion and flowers – evident in many of her interiors. During her life Lee had residences in England, Paris and New York, and all of them had a taste of the “exotic and unexpected.” She worked with Renzo Mongiardino on Turville La Grange and in her book wrote about how much she learned from him. Turville was a country house of flowers and Lee described her Park Avenue apartment as “more like Turville, in that all the fabrics on the walls were strewn with flowers, giving it a country feel, with French doors opening onto the terrace. I used most of the same furniture, so it had an echo of the past.”
The dining room here gives a feeling of being enveloped in a garden, layered with flowers and framed with botanicals. The Regency dining table and black chairs upholstered in leopard velvet are the focal point of the space.
While light streams through the shuttered window one can only imagine it lit solely with candles in the evening.
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The Decorating
Botanical Paper
Iksel
Richards Mirror
Chelsea House
Small Tole Palm Tree
Kenny Ball Antiques
Henredon Regency Style Side Chairs
1st Dibs
Yangon Console Table
Chelsea House
Regency Table with Triple Gilded Dolphin Base
Avery & Dash
19th C. Botanical Engravings
Chairish
Bold Lattice Rug
Williams-Sonoma
English Regency Table
Antique and Artisan Gallery
Tinned Copper Spices Caddy Box
1st Dibs
Set of 6 Regency Caned Side Chairs
1st Dibs
Porcelain Cachepots
Antique and Artisan Gallery
Bowery Rug
Ballard Designs
Stewart Arm Chair
Hickory Chair
Charles X Burl Chinoiserie Decorated Chest
Wolf Hall Antique Collective
Chinoiserie/Greek Key Table
One Kings Lane
CAN Console Table
Red Egg
Faux Ficus
NDI
Penwork Cabinet
Parc Monceau
Gueridon Table
Dalton Bain
Eucalyptus Leaf
Palecek
Ballinger Mirror
Chelsea House
Dolphin Table Supports
Haddonstone
Faux Palm
Pottery Barn
Taavi Autumn
Stark Carpet
Faux Ming Aralia Tree
Alcott Hill
Directoire Style Armchair
Parc Monceau
Box
Parc Monceau
Raqi Round Baskets
Mecox
Porcelain Ice Pails
Bardith, Ltd.
Healing Spring’s Console
Century Furniture
Sideboard
Red Egg
British Colonial Botanical
Coco and Dash
Malaberica Leaves in Color
Soicher-Marin
Plant Stands
Get the Gusto
On the Table
Boston Goblet
Villeroy & Boch
Wine Goblet
Caspari
Caroline Glassware
William Yeoward
Corinne Tumbler
William Yeoward
Esme Candlesticks
William Yeoward
Rachel Wine Carafe
William Yeoward
Rachel Wine Carafe
William Yeoward
Tahiti Flatware
Buccellati
Faneuil Flatware
Tiffany & Co.
Milano Flatware
Buccellati
Empire Flatware
Buccellati
Paris Table Linens
Julia B.
Festival Napkins
Sferra
Venezia Table Linens
Julia B.
Hemstitch Linen Dinner Napkin
Leontine Linens
Pearl Dessert Plates
Orrefors
Haviland & Parlon Arc en Ciel, Yellow
Scully & Scully
Aegean Gold Filet Collection
L’objet
Weave
Tiffany & Co.
Chinoise Blue Service
Mottahedeh
On the Bookshelf
Lee
By Lee Radziwill
Jackie, Janet & Lee
By J. Randy Taraborrelli
Jackie, Janet & Lee
By J. Randy Taraborrelli
Jackie, Janet & Lee
By J. Randy Taraborrelli
