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At The Park, art is important to us. These photographs by Horst P. Horst, known for his work with @voguemagazine, take us back to some very stylish moments in 1942.

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Love this video of our Manhattan Room @theparklondon with art by @thehorstfoundation

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Breakfast, brunch and lunch at … 💫✨✨ More great #portrait inspiration with this fabulous new addition. Truman Capote kicking back by Horst P Horst 💫✨📸 And relax… you’re @theparklondon love this spot… Amazing crab linguine after our hiking 👟👟🦀🍝 and couldn’t resist their spin on a cookie ice cream sandwich either, while JJ was busy designing his sundae! 💫✨✏️🍦🍪 #thepark #trumancapote #portraitoftheartist #horstphorst #photography

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Will You Be My Valentine ❤️‍🔥
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#design #love #boston #interiordesign #bostoncreative #bostondesigner #settingthemood #crownthecool

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Horst, Champagne, Peaches with Cream and Transatlantic Deco.
All is well in the world.
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#london #mood #mooddujour #peachesandcream #horstphorst #lesannees30 #photography #artdeco #transatlantic #aesthetic

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I am told red is back and Home & Gardens thoughtfully gave credit to mom for being the first to use the color as a full room statement.
The writer, Sophie Edwards, says:
“The legendary editor’s living room idea is a phenomenon. While working with the iconic interior designer Billy Baldwin in 1955, she famously told him that she wanted the space to ‘look like a garden, but a garden in hell.’ In his 1974 memoir, Baldwin wrote: ‘I knew what that meant: red.’ He got to work. He covered the walls, curtains, and furniture with red chintz from London decorator John Fowler.” To read the full story, go to @homesandgardensofficial.

📷: @thehorstfoundation

#freckvreeland #dianavreeland #gardeninhell #interiors #redinterior #interiordesign #billybaldwin #homeandgardens #johnfowler #decorator

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Transatlantic Deco, Horst, Happy Reunions & Slow Dancing to Hildegard.
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#london #newyork #mood #mooddujour #lesannees30 #lesartsdécoratifs #1930s #artdeco #interiors #champagne #conversations #horst #horstphorst #gloves #aesthetic

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For my first article for the inaugural edition of Sotheby’s Magazine, I have focused on Willem de Kooning’s masterpiece, ‘Ruth’s Zowie’.

The painting, named after Ruth Kligman — the sole survivor of the car crash that killed Jackson Pollock — has journeyed from New York, to Chicago, and to Los Angeles, where it now resides.

Earlier this summer, the current owners of the painting, Michael Ovitz and Tamara Mellon, were kind enough to open up their Los Angeles home and allow me to photograph the de Kooning in situ for the very first time.

This is the first of a recurring column I am writing for Sotheby’s Magazine. In each issue, I will trace the journey of a famous artwork through the different homes it’s lived in, shedding details and curiosities about the piece along the way.

The full article can be accessed via the link in my bio. Sotheby’s Magazine is available now on select newsstands.

A special thank you to Michael Ovitz, Tamara Mellon and the Horst Foundation for helping bring this story to life.

Photograph 1: Willem de Kooning at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, in 1959. ‘Ruth’s Zowie’ hangs behind him. Photographed by Arnold Newman.

Photograph 2: ‘Ruth’s Zowie’ hangs in the New York home of Thomas B. Hess. Photographed by Horst P. Horst for Vogue in 1968.

Photograph 3: ‘Ruth’s Zowie’ hangs in the Los Angeles home of Michael Ovitz and Tamara Mellon. Photographed by Lucas Oliver Mill in 2024.

#willemdekooning #alexandercalder #horstphorst #sothebysmagazine

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The 18th-century Parisian home of Pierre and São Schlumberger, featuring paintings by Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and Pablo Picasso. The hôtel particulier, named Hôtel de Luzy, had been abandoned during the Second World War until the Schlumbergers rescued it in the early 1970s, inviting “the world’s most expensive decorator”, Valerian Rybar, to spearhead its renovation.

In the grand entryway of the home, Mark Rothko’s ‘No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange)’ (1951) dominates the central wall. Curiously, the Schlumbergers (whether by personal choice or perhaps by mistake) had hung the Rothko upside down from how Rothko had actually intended for it to be shown. A bold colour pairing, the Schlumbergers decided to place the Rothko alongside a deep blue canvas by Ad Reinhardt from 1953 (seen at the far end of the entryway). During the Schlumbergers’ estate sale in 2014, the Rothko sold for a cool $45 million.

It is worth noting that São played an important part in building the art collection. Before the couple married, Pierre had dabbled in collecting some of great modern artists — Picasso, Braque, Mondrian, Leger, Matisse. However, it was São, with a fearless curiosity for the contemporary, who insisted on expanding the collection to include Rothko, Reinhardt, Gottlieb, Rauschenberg, and Warhol.

In the second photograph, the Green Salon (another curiosity about the home was Rybar’s choice to define each living and dining space with a single colour) where Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les enfants’ (1956) hangs above the sofa.

In the third photograph, the Schlumbergers’ mirrored bathroom — a Rybar signature. In almost every one of Rybar’s residential projects he managed to find a way to incorporate a mirrored room. A chrome-plated freestanding bathtub sits at the centre.

In the fourth photograph, the Schlumbergers’ study, wrapped in brown suede-covered walls (so I guess you could also call it the Brown Room), and stainless steel flooring, with paintings by Matisse, Picasso and Juan Gris on the walls.

Photographed by Horst P. Horst in 1974.

Courtesy of the Horst Foundation and Condé Nast Archives.

#markrothko #valerianrybar #rothko #horstphorst #adreinhardt #picasso

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It has been a great pleasure working with Jeremy King, Shane Brady and the team at Brady Williams, on Jeremy King Restaurants ‘The Park London.’
The elegance of the interiors, and the curation of the art, has created a slice of ‘Mad Men’s’ America on the edge of Kensington Gardens.
Horst’s images ‘sing’ in the space.
If you would like to know more about Horst and the Foundation, please follow me at @thehorstfoundation
Or DM me here.

@theparklondon
@jeremybking
@bradywilliamshospitality

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#madmen
#classicphotography
#londonrestaurants

Image: Horst 1943. ‘Hats’ by Best, Lord & Taylor, and Mme Pauline, Gloves by Dawnelle.

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