Inside the apart

A few months back Vanity Fair featured the Yves Saint Laurent apartment in a December article preceding the big sale. I'm nosy so I wanted to see the whole apartment and I'd been looking for more photos but this article never showed up until now. There are so many good pictures here. You really get a good peek at the place, stuffed to the brim (and I mean brim!) with his eccentric little collection.

Whew, the place is overwhelming.

A few questions I would like to ask Yves and Bergé if I could, "who did you trust to dust all that?", "why didn't you keep half of those things in another house?" , "didn't you worry about people palming some of those bibelot over an apéro?" and finally "did you ever invite people over with kids?" (I know they had dogs so maybe it's the same--but my brother's dog ate his sofa so I can only imagine.)

I'm just saying.

I would have loved to have been invited for coffee. It's like an art warehouse only everything's out of the crates. What an amazing collection. I'm sure there are lots of other eccentric collectors like Saint Laurent and Bergé out there that we barely know about. Their homes are completely facinating because of the whole fantasy about living in a museum. Can't live in a museum? Create one in your living room. Oh go on! What must that be like?

By the way I am in love with this picture. The model and the designer so chic and elegant. What beautiful tones and how wonderful is that Léger painting over the sofa? I wonder where it is now?

(Okay here's an interesting description of the Fernand Léger painting from the Christie's auction catalogue. You an also see the asking and selling price. It was obviously popular at the sale)