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DISCOVERIES
FASHIONABLE ARRIVAL
With a decorator for a mother and a
background in architecture (she studied
at the Rhode Island School of Design
before pivoting into fashion at Central
Saint Martins), it was only a matter of
time before the Greek-born, London-
based fashion designer Mary Katrantzou
began repurposing her pattern-happy
creations for the home. This month
she launches a collection of six wool-
and-silk floor coverings with The Rug
Company (Framis at left), featuring
scaled-up florals, sunray squiggles, and
graphic paint-by-numbers patterns
inspired by “childhood nostalgia.”
therugcompany.com —HANNAH MARTIN
AUCTIONS
Affairs to Remember
“The house is one’s soul,” Lee Radziwill (1933–2019) once said. When it
came to the style icon’s own residences, times good and bad were echoed
in objects that recalled spouses, lovers, and that famous sister. “There’s a
reason for her keeping these,” Christie’s deputy chairman Jonathan Rendell
says, referring to three watercolor maquettes ($20,000–$30,000) offered
in The Collection of Lee Bouvier Radziwill on October 17. Though designer
Renzo Mongiardino decorated several of her homes, these are the only
schemes that she saved. The bedroom and bath were likely a suite for hus-
band #2, a Polish prince, though it’s uncertain if they were executed. Still,
“as a piece of decoration history, they’re rather important,” Rendell says of
the romantic ephemera, adding, “and better than a dreary virtual tour of a
horrible apartment on a 98th floor.” christies.com —MITCHELL OWENS
1. A RENZO MONGIARDINO
MAQUETTE OF A BEDROOM
FOR LEE RADZIWILL.
2. HIS MODEL FOR AN
ADJOINING BATH.
CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2019; COURTESY OF THE RUG COMPANY
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