vintage ’20s

If you use cosmetics then chances are you might have heard of Terry de Gunzberg. She was the guiding force behind Yves Saint Laurent Beauty before she founded her very own line of cosmetics – By Terry.

Renowned interior designer and friend of de Gunzberg Jacques Grange collaborated with de Gunzberg on her Manhattan apartment.  This apartment has great structure – a classic Upper East Side midrise, vintage ’20s discreet, elegant, with high ceilings, grand bathrooms, and generous proportions. Inside, de Gunzburg has created a haven in which art and furniture from disparate eras live in a harmony.

Colour is by no means confined to the paintings. The sparse, all white loft, like an art gallery with a bed, has become the standard issue decoration for collectors of contemporary art, de Gunzburg’s apartment is surprising for its palette: burnt orange, plum, turquoise, navy blue, lime green.

My love all things Art Deco is deeply intense and perhaps why I respond to this project so positively. The movement and its distinctive style have become a specialty in de Gunzburg’s apartment, she and Grange revisited the late ’20s and early ’30s, when Art Deco was in its heyday, bringing together furniture and carpets that celebrate its aerodynamic lines and Jazz Age enthusiasm, invoking one of the most glamorous moments in the city’s history, when Radio City Music Hall and the Chrysler Building were born.

The atmosphere the two have created is welcoming and a fond tribute but by no means stuck in the past—a reminder that the values that found expression in the Deco era are still relevant today – a dynamism propelled by the promise of the future.

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