A PALMER hit list of what’s new, now, and next from around the globe—from our obsessive-at-large, Wynn Burson Cateron.
If (like me) you shed a tear poring over Maureen Footer’s DIOR & HIS DECORATORS you might like to nab YVES SAINT LAURENT AT HOME, in which the iconic interior designer Jacques Grange opens the doors to the couturier’s delicious homes in Paris, Marrakech, Deauville, and of course the storied couture house itself…from Assouline, $105.
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- 55 rue de Babylone, Paris. Oiseaux de Marbre chairs by François-Xavier Lalanne. The black-and- white bust dates to the nineteenth century. © Marianne Haas
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- 55 rue de Babylone, Paris. A portrait of Yves’s French bulldog, Moujik, painted by Andy Warhol, rests under an antique torso. © Marianne Haas
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- Yves Saint-Laurent at home rue de Solferino in the 80’s with the painting ‘Composition dans l’usine’ by Fernand Leger. (Photo by Jean-Luc LUYSSEN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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- 55 rue de Babylone, Paris. Three paintings by Fernand Léger hang on the wall: Le Profil Noir, The Yellow Checkerboard and Composition dans l’usine. In the top left, the ghost of Giorgio de Chirico, while the stool in the foreground is by Pierre Legrain. © Marianne Haas
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- 5 Avenue Marceau, Paris. Saint Laurent’s private office. © Marianne Haas
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- Château Gabriel, Deauville, France. The winter garden, home to exotic flowers, palm trees and ferns, is where Saint Laurent entertained his guests most often. © Marianne Haas © Marianne Haas
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- Château Gabriel, Deauville, France. Pierre’s bedroom, which was named “Baron Charlus.” © Marianne Haas
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- La Datcha at Château Gabriel, Deauville, France. View of the bathroom. © Marianne Haas
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- Villa Oasis, Marrakech, Morroco. In front of a triptych by Sir Edward Coley Burne- Jones, a Senufo Bird from the Côte d’Ivoire, circa late nineteenth century. © Marianne Haas
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- Villa Oasis, Marrakech, Morroco. The plaster laces (gebs), the wooden painted celings (zouacs), and the mosaic tiles (zelliges) are all original, made by local craftsmen, with Art Deco motifs integrated into the Moorish aesthetic © Marianne Haas
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- Villa Oasis, Marrakech, Morroco. An armchair designed and painted by Saint Laurent for his first house in the medina. © Marianne Haas
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- Villa Oasis, Marrakech, Morroco. The fireplace in the living room is decorated with necklaces of coral, amber and jade from the southern Sahara. © Marianne Haas
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- La Datcha at Château Gabriel, Deauville, France. In the foreground, a cushion embroidered with gold thread, originally from the twelfth century castle of Grignan. © Marianne Haas
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- La Datcha at Château Gabriel, Deauville, France. In the foreground, a cushion embroidered with gold thread, originally from the twelfth century castle of Grignan. © Marianne Haas
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- Jacques, Yves’s French bulldog Moujik and Yves in the winter garden of Château Gabriel in Deauville, Normandy, France, 1982. Courtesy of Jacques Grange