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Greta Garbo also from architectural digest online
(Her art is amazing!!)

The Legendary Star's Secret Garden in New York
By Gray Horan

One night Greta Garbo found herself dangling from the drainpipe outside of the bedroom window of her Los Angeles home, waiting for the prowler inside to finish prowling. Garbo decided it was time to move to New York, which offered both anonymity and doormen. She found a Manhattan apartment building with an illustrious list of tenants. Tickled by the legacy, she moved in.

Renoir's 1909 Léontine et Coco, which depicts the artist's son Claude, is displayed in the living room. Garbo had a passion for art and antiques and began collecting works by Renoir in the 1940s. Louis XV fauteuils attributed to Jean-Baptiste Tilliard flank the fireplace, where late-18th-century famille rose roosters are set alongside 19th-century Chinese porcelain boxes. The taboret is Louis XVI.

A carpet Garbo designed lines a hall, where a painting by her brother, Sven Gustafson, hangs above a Louis XV banquette. It was director Mauritz Stiller who brought then-19-year-old Greta Gustafson to the United States in 1925. A three-time Oscar nominee, Garbo was given a special 1954 Academy Award for her "unforgettable screen performances."

The "closet room," which Garbo created from a small library, is highlighted by one of the carpets she designed for her 1962 series, Birds in Flight. Over the closet is part of her collection of hats; others are stacked on a carved and painted Russian provincial tea table from circa 1880. Garbo chose the upholstery and drapery fabric, which features African tribal motifs.