Celebrity Home: Iris Apfel

I've always wanted to see Iris Apfel's home. She is an amazing lady who not only designs interiors but also jewelry and clothes. Now, well into her 80's she is as active as ever. The New York City apartment she shares with her husband, Carl, is just as amazing and full of character and personality as Iris herself.<br /><br />If you'd like to read the full Architectural Digest article just go <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/homes/2011/06/iris_apfels_exuberant_apartment_article?currentPage=1">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><img alt="" class="featureimg" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/01_rare_bird.jpg" /><br />The living room’s bleached-oak boiserie is 18th-century French, and the door hardware is by P. E. Guerin; the screen is also French, while the chair at left, covered in an Old World Weavers tapestry fabric, is 17th-century Sicilian.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Photographer Bruce Weber is working on a documentary about her.</div><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/02_rare_bird.jpg" /><br />In the library, a Dutch painting is displayed above a Louis XVI daybed covered in fabric Apfel reproduced from a 17th-century French document.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/03_rare_bird.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 650px;" /><br />A collection of <em>singerie</em> tops an 18th-century Venetian bombé chest in the living room; the back of the English chair at right is painted with chinoiserie designs.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/04_rare_bird.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 650px;" /><br />In the entry, an 18th-century English gilt chinoiserie mirror and an Italian console.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/05_rare_bird.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 650px;" /><br />An Italian tole chandelier above a Maison Jansen table draped in a woven paisley throw. <div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/06_rare_bird.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 650px;" /><br />The first painting Apfel ever bought—a portrait of the Infanta Margarita she picked up 60 years ago at an antiques shop in Florence.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/07_rare_bird.jpg" style="width: 476px; height: 516px;" /><br />Bakelite jewelry in the paws of a hand-carved French mountain dog. <div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/08_rare_bird.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 650px;" /><br />The entry contains an 18th-century French screen (left), an early-18th-century painted Genoese corner cabinet, and Louis XVI–style chairs upholstered in an Old World Weavers cut velvet. The needlepoint carpet is English. <div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/09_rare_bird.jpg" style="width: 601px; height: 651px;" /><br />“I was one of the first New York women to wear boots,” says Apfel, who designed the gilt-leather-and-fabric pair on the floor at right. Racks of her vintage pieces fill a spare room; she is especially fond of the metallic-check coat by Galanos.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/homes/2011/06/rare_bird/10_rare_bird.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 650px;" /><br />A hallway is lined with dog paintings and 19th-century English bookcases brimming with volumes on fashion, decorative arts, and Chinese costumes and textiles.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br />Hope you enjoyed this tour. Let me know!<br /><br /><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Text by Amanda Vaill<br />Photography by Roger Davies<br />Produced by Robert Rufino<br /></div><br /></div>All images and information from <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a>.

Celebrity Home: Iris Apfel

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