UPDATE: Caroline Lee Radziwill (née Bouvier, formerly Canfield and Ross), formerly Princess Caroline Lee Radziwill: American socialite, public-relations executive, and interior decorator. The younger sister of the late First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy passed away on Friday, February 15, 2019. She was 85.
Lee Radziwill recently celebrated a birthday: on March 3rd, she turned 84. Perhaps it is because of these recent celebrations, or because we shall never get over the former European princess’ divine chicness, this instalment of Interiors Redux takes another look at the Paris apartment of Lee Radziwill, socialite, interior decorator, former actress and sister of the late Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1994).
Designed by Lee herself, the apartment overlooks Avenue Montaigne with a view of the Eiffel Tower. Until recently, she divided her time between New York and her Paris pied-à-terre, though, she laments, Paris has changed: “There’s a McDonald’s in the Louvre”, she exclaims. The apartment itself is all shades of fabulousness, with an astonishingly lovely gilded mirror and gold coffee tables, and sofas and chairs covered in her much-loved Chinoiserie Le Manach fabric. Scroll through for a glimpse of how the space look at the time of the The Times‘ interview in 2013, as well as how the apartment looked in in 2003 and 2009 …
Photographs by François Halard; styled by Carolina Irving; via The New York Times
Elle Decor, 2009
Jacqueline Bouvier with her sister Lee at a debutante ball, 1951, photography by Cecil Beaton
