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Yeah, it's mostly new stuff (Marc Newson, Established & Sons) but there are some 1930's acrylic chairs in there, too. And the article's called "Spaceship Lagerfeld."

Some random information about Lagerfeld's homes...



From the New Yorker about his Quai Voltaire apartment:
Lagerfeld’s love of blending past and present is obvious in his description of his new home, on the Quai Voltaire, on the Left Bank. Having purchased four apartments on two floors of a two-hundred-year-old building overlooking the Louvre, he is gutting the place and constructing a town house. The upper floor will contain only furniture and art made after the year 2000, including pieces by the Bouroullec brothers, Marc Newson, and others. The lower floor, Lagerfeld says, “is the Old World”; it will feature a large library furnished with pieces from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as from his Art Deco collection. Living in the house will be “like floating in your own spaceship over a very civilized past,” Lagerfeld says. (Some years ago, he bought a mansion in Biarritz, where, he says, he spent millions of dollars refurbishing it, staffed it with servants, and stocked it with a hundred and fifty thousand of his books. In 2006, after realizing that he had not visited the place in two years, he sold it.)
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It's somewhere directly across from one of those two sets of trees, and I'm thinking the one on the right, because you can barely make out a bridge in one of the pictures in Vogue.

He just bought a town house "around the corner." Rue de Beaune? Rue de Bac? Rue des Saints-Pères?

In 1997, Lagerfeld sold his fabulously fantastic Monaco house (La Vigie) which is now available as a rentable villa. It has six bedrooms and four bathrooms, should anyone choose to host (and pay for) a TFS get together there.

He still has two apartments in Monaco.

And Karl stopped leasing amazing amazing house in Paris. (A Google map of that was posted a while back.) Apparently he leased it for thirty years. And it was also 18,000 square feet.

Lagerfeld rented "two places in Ramatuelle, near St.-Trpez--one for him, one for guests."

He also no longer has his house in Biarritz or Villa Jako.

Karl has a loft in NYC at 50 Gramercy Park. (Click here for floorplans)

And easily the most humourous tidbit, Karl "bought a house in Vermont: He likes Edith Wharton and Emily Dickinson and the idea of woods and lakes."

From Art Info (click for the full article)
I have a huge photography studio next door [on the Rue de Lille] with a bookshop in the front part [stocked with beautiful books on art, fashion, design, decoration, photography and gardens plus a selection of international art magazines] that is doing very well. In fact, I have three houses—I mean, I have three houses right there [around the Quai Voltaire] and other houses elsewhere. I turned a nine-room apartment into a huge suite only for me, with a kitchen to warm up things that people can bring when I call. I have no servants in there when I’m home. Nobody. I want to be alone, like Garbo. My studio next door is a huge place, and there is an apartment over there for guests. My library there has almost 60,000 books. When I leave my apartment where I stay for the night, I have a town house for lunch and guests and books next door. All these places are three minutes from one another.
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^interesting info! he lives very central in paris. is he not afraid of tourists knocking on his door?
 
^ that's where Sebastien comes in :D, I guess...
(and now I've gotten ideas :innocent:)
 
Oh Karl, let it go...the book has been out there for over two years- drawing new attention to it is not doing you any good... :cry:

'Fall' author Drake slammed by designer

LONDON, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- British author Alicia Drake, who wrote "The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris," is a liar, a noted designer alleges.

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has asked a court to block the distribution of Drake's book in France contending it inaccurately challenges his personal history, The Sunday Times of London reported.
"It's a rubbish book by a mediocrity with the testimonies of a bunch of losers, most often ones that I fired," Lagerfield said of the book, which was published in Britain in 2006.
In her book, Drake alleges Lagerfield embellished his history to make it appear he was of aristocratic birth despite details to the contrary.
Denoel publishing house editor Abel Gerschenfeld, whose house published "Fall," told the Times the book was being reviewed in hopes of finding a compromise on the issue.
"I don't know what to expect," Gerschenfeld said. "But I hope it's not a lawsuit."
 
So, I just got an e mail from Neiman Marcus- seems the Karl Bear is sold out and on back order already...Should be availabe again after October 24th...!! I'm not the least bit surprised! B)
 
Oh, how I would love to stay @ that house in Monaco!!

And 50 Gramercy Park, heaven!!

Thanks for all this info, I love reading about his homes/books/how he thinks!
 
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Oh Karl, let it go...the book has been out there for over two years- drawing new attention to it is not doing you any good... :cry:

'Fall' author Drake slammed by designer

LONDON, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- British author Alicia Drake, who wrote "The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris," is a liar, a noted designer alleges.

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has asked a court to block the distribution of Drake's book in France contending it inaccurately challenges his personal history, The Sunday Times of London reported.
"It's a rubbish book by a mediocrity with the testimonies of a bunch of losers, most often ones that I fired," Lagerfield said of the book, which was published in Britain in 2006.
In her book, Drake alleges Lagerfield embellished his history to make it appear he was of aristocratic birth despite details to the contrary.
Denoel publishing house editor Abel Gerschenfeld, whose house published "Fall," told the Times the book was being reviewed in hopes of finding a compromise on the issue.
"I don't know what to expect," Gerschenfeld said. "But I hope it's not a lawsuit."
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I have yet to read this! I bought it a few months back and it is on my nightstand...buried underneath accounting books, job applications, etc. Hopefully I will be able to read and enjoy it during Christmas break.
***note to self: MUST read this book...every king karl fan seems to have read it. must read in order to be considered a serious karl fanatic***
 
^^i consider myself a very serious fan and havent read it... i kinda want to, but you know... you can always say that a true karl fan wouldnt read something karl doesnt approve ;)
 
^No!! You must read it! Whether or not Drake's book is accurate about Karl's early life, it's still an excellent read. I think it gives Karl a lot more mystique, actually.
 
^^ I agree!! It is beyond!! There are so many juicy Karl tidbits, hum?? B)
 
I know we need a Sebastien thread, but here is another look at the cutest sweater ever!! :woot: (Ready to wear F/W 07-08)

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