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A Closer Look: Inside Swan Babe Paley’s Iconic New York Apartments | Cultured Elegance
Babe Paley, one of the most famous Swans of Truman Capote's inner circle,
Consisting of; Babe Paley herself, Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Pamela Churchill, and Lee Radzwill (Jackie Kenner Onassis’ Sister) are all depicted in a new television series known as Ryan Murphy’s “Feud”
Babe Paley was renowned for her exquisite taste and luxurious New York City apartments. Decorators such as Billy Baldwin, Sister Parish, Albert Hadley and Jensen were instrumental in creating the timeless elegance that defined her living spaces. Babe's sophisticated style and social influence made her living spaces the epitome of high society living. Her collaboration with renowned decorators resulted in spaces that captured the essence of luxury and refinement, reflecting her impeccable taste and status as a tastemaker of her time.
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@CulturedElegance 4 месяца назад

❤ 🎉 Thank you for watching! Who is your favorite Swan? 🦢 Read more about BABE PALEY and Subscribe to the Cultured Elegance Newsletter: culturedelegance.substack.com/subscribe Books on BABE PALEY, TRUMAN CAPOTE AND HIS SWANS: www.amazon.com/shop/finding.faith.co/list/1GIWNWIF3QMN8?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsflist_aipsffinding.faith.co_Z4RJ6BKASWTGS0S2DM8M

@jamminjoy 4 месяца назад

Don't really have a favorite Swan, except perhaps C.Z. Guest, who was kind, and, in her later years, Gloria Vanderbilt, mother of Anderson Cooper, who had her own money. Otherwise, once you find out how brutally abusive many of these women's husbands were to them and how they endured it in exchange for the wealth, it's difficult to have much respect for them. Bill Paley was an insatiable womanizer and cheated on Babe continually with whomever, whenever, wherever. Coincidentally, Truman's uncle, John Persons, was my godfather. Those genes were powerful as my 'Uncle' John, although of more normal stature, had Truman's identical head and face. Truman drove himself from New York to Florida for the winter for many years and always stopped off to visit my godparents and his grandmother who lived with them. They felt that writing "In Cold Blood" completely broke Truman mentally and emotionally and that was why he was never able to finish much of note thereafter.

@Lolabelle59 3 месяца назад

Babe Paley is my favorite. ❤

@claudetteholloway1126 3 месяца назад

Nun. They were all bigots.

@elizabethcloutman8913 3 месяца назад

Capote’s Women is excellent! Thanks for the other suggestions, as well!!!

@DarrylGrantaba 3 месяца назад

Thank you, loved Babe and her rooms were exquisite.

@dianetorres5439 4 месяца назад

Imagine how the fabric absorbed the cigarette smoke and city dust. 🤧

@melodymacken9788 4 месяца назад

Good grief. Be nice.

@kevinchambers1101 3 месяца назад

I thought the very same thing. They must have been soaked in cigarette tar.

@johnwright2911 3 месяца назад

Yea, just wrote that. Babe smoked two packs a day!! Yikes!

@cherylstahl9162 3 месяца назад

Just like their abode, it’s as if everything is an ornament , including the residents. The more I read the more I think of how terribly lonely I would feel being separated from the other world and feeling like an adornment in some kind of a play that I had to act in for life.

@user-ih5xj7vt3w 3 месяца назад

She died of lung cancer at just 63 years old. @@johnwright2911

@commercialzone4141 3 месяца назад

Almost every one of her dresses could be worn today. Timeless elegance is a great title.

@pamelacorbett8774 3 месяца назад

Sure, if you look like a beanpole everything looks great, old and new!

@AsiaAlexander 3 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing. While beautiful, I’m fascinated by the choice of drapes in the St Regis apartment, as they made the room dark. I’m curious about the design sensibilities of the time…considering Babe was a trend setter. Plenty of rabbit holes for me to go down.

@gozerthegozarian9500 2 месяца назад

One important factor in how vintage clothing looks so awesome is that it was all made to measure, and therefor actually fit the bodies of the people wearing it. These days, everything is off the rack and nothing fits anybody properly anymore

@paulabarch5065 2 месяца назад

@@pamelacorbett8774and how much do you weigh?

@BebeNow 4 месяца назад

My mother was very good friends with Babe’s Daughter Kate. I first met her 1989/90. The most sweetest and generous heart. I went to the 5th Ave apt. I was never a fan of the interior design of their house, but to each his own. 😊 Babe, had such classic looks in fashion. It didn’t translate into their home, but that’s just my opinion. I think their apartment was very busy & all over the place. Thank you for the video it was nice .

@christinamitchell6796 4 месяца назад

Me too very busy!!Just too much going on. If I had that kind of money moderation would be my friend and I'd spend time with my children so that we had a good healthy relationship Later in life since her husband was a user and phalanderer.

@BebeNow 4 месяца назад

@@christinamitchell6796 without me saying too much. I agree not spending time with the children which is call neglect, is damaging. It did something to Kate and It was very sad to see. Like I said before she was and is most sweetest and loving person I’ve met in her class. We all need kindness, love, and good quality time with each other. It goes a long way. 🪷🌞

@terrencebadger4149 4 месяца назад

It was a different era .I'm sure in person, it had a different effect

@christinamitchell6796 4 месяца назад

@@BebeNowAmen 🙏 that's good inspite of her upbringing you found her to have a kind heart. That's why nobody has an excuse, we can have a fantastic upbringing and some turn out awful humans.

@MegAplin 3 месяца назад

That was the way wealthy people decorated and furnished their homes in the early 60s. They all look very similar, no one was unique, it seems

@elleflowers8020 3 месяца назад

So fascinating. And yet, during this same time period I was growing up in a home in a small town in Virginia with my Mom and Dad and two sisters and two brothers- filled with love and laughter , our lives centered around our home and church and friends. I remember clean, sunlit rooms and the smell of homemade bread. I wouldn’t trade our humble abode and all that love and joy for any of this. ( Blessed)❤️🙏😍

@sungeigerong1 3 месяца назад

I feel the same ❤

@stevepotfora7461 3 месяца назад

No one asked about how you grew up, this is a presentation about The Paleys. Most of us up differently than this. Interesting that you choose to make it about yourself.

@carolross1517 3 месяца назад

💯👍❤️

@Elizabeth-yg2mg 3 месяца назад

I feel the same. The decorating was far too busy. He had many affairs and treated her horribly. She died a terrible death from lung cancer. What sad lives, buried in expensive junk.@@stevepotfora7461

@victoriajones8747 3 месяца назад

@@stevepotfora7461you are moody and rude ....

@ChiefSlacc 3 месяца назад

All I can think of with all those fabric wall coverings is the chain smoking everyone did. Must've smelled like pure hell in there lol

@letsbereal9455 3 месяца назад

Same thought. Babe died from lung cancer a day after her 63rd birthday. Very sad.

@saintclaire4897 2 месяца назад

They had a small army of servants

@juanitaleak6482 4 месяца назад

It’s so funny to see a time where style was “more is more” there was soooo much going on in those rooms my eyes didn’t know where to land!

@solangelauthier2381 3 месяца назад

Ever heard of the baroque ? Well, that was a kind of new baroque (more is more), like the Beaux Arts style in architecture.

@nativevirginian8344 3 месяца назад

It was pretty bad!

@solangelauthier2381 3 месяца назад

@@nativevirginian8344 Bad ? Matter of taste. Such famous interior decorators as Nancy Lancaster (then) and Jacques Garcia (now) made/make lovely busy interiors. To name only these two.

@timesawasting7532 3 месяца назад

I know! Isn’t it great! I love it!

@DuckyQSimmons 4 месяца назад

My favorite swan, I have 2, are Babe Paley and Slim Keith. Paley in part because of her job at Vogue, knowing Diana Vreeland, and her openness & need of Truman Capote. Slim because I am a classic film fan all my life and know how Slim influenced Howard Hawkes’ re: Betty “Lauren” Bacall. Further, Slim was not as open to telling everything to Capote. She seems to have had a sense that it would be a mistake whereas Babe needed Capote, needed his caring, his “love.”

@jeanneglover7701 3 месяца назад

They were my favorite Swans as well. Being from Atlanta, GA i have read about the New York high society and it intrigued me. They were all fashionable but as hard as they tried to keep their secrets secret, it all came out!

@DuckyQSimmons 3 месяца назад

@@jeanneglover7701 Yes indeed!

@tundrawomansays694 3 месяца назад

@@jeanneglover7701Thanks to Truman who betrayed their private disclosures to him, that petty back-stabbing little drunkard.

@janusconner3710 2 месяца назад

I'm with you, Ducky 😊

@wendywoo2180 18 дней назад

I love Slim’s memoir, she led quite a life!

@BaronessofBrentwood 3 месяца назад

I bought a darling mid century home from a gentleman who was a heavy smoker and also his wife transitioned in the house from cancer. The walls and ceilings when sprayed with cleaner dripped brown liquid that looked like coffee. Even the refrigerator gasket was covered in nicotine. Needless to say I washed and repainted every surface and the place smelled much better. Even though the owner never mentioned it, I got a great surprise when I ripped up green sculptured carpet (very stained due the owners beloved elderly dachshund) to reveal the most pristine blonde oak floors in original condition. The home had clean lines and was my favorite of all my rehabs. On the Paley palace, it is ironic that Babe dressed so simply and elegantly but her homes were very busy and maximally decorated. Such was the fashion on the times presumably but it reminds me of old las Vegas. She was a timeless beauty.

@tothelighthouse9843 4 месяца назад

It seems clear to me these rooms were designed to look their best when full of people. Especially glamorous elegantly dressed people. The contrast of comfortable humble-cotton chairs occupied by men in pristine black tuxedos & women in one-of-a-kind evening gowns must've been breathtaking. Empty of guests, as in these photos, the rooms look like they're holding their breath til the guests arrive, or like you can still feel the warmth where someone's hand held a glass the night before. And the rooms are designed for comfort--a slightly elevated comfort perhaps--so that visitors feel as relaxed as if they were in their own homes. Imagine the thrill as a guest to walk into the most exclusive party in the most exclusive apartment in the most exclusive city in America, & feel so comfortable & as if you belong! As if you're exactly where you should be--at home. And surely that sense of comfort, ease & familiarity would have encouraged guests to relax, have an extra drink or two, perhaps tell a few secrets or consider behaving badly...

@richardbois5696 4 месяца назад

Perfectly stated

@carolbradley4845 3 месяца назад

Very descriptive! And well said!

@kevinchambers1101 3 месяца назад

Those secrets were Capotes undoing. Because he couldn't keep them, he was banned for the rest of his life from that rarefied high society.

@tothelighthouse9843 3 месяца назад

@@kevinchambers1101 The only person who ever undid Truman was Truman himself. Slowly, & with a sly grin on his face, lol. Have you read 'Other Voices, Other Rooms'? Truman is a true American genius. The whole point of 'Answered Prayers' was to remind Americans that the society Truman described was clearly neither 'rarified' nor 'high'. To remind Americans that Swans, like the rest of us, take a sh*t.

@ceilconstante640 4 месяца назад

The rooms are exquisitely elegant and beautiful. But all that fabric and all the smoking! The hanging chandelier clock @ 4:16 with the Morrrish figure sitting on top of another person is kind of strange and unsettling.

@marylou3995 4 месяца назад

And probably a returned soldier,sitting outside on the street begging... I don’t mind been rich, who doesn’t want to be? But this is to much, the reason we are in the trouble we are in today..

@christinamitchell6796 4 месяца назад

@@marylou3995Yep and they are widening the gap even more today

@DuckyQSimmons 4 месяца назад

Remember that Moorish Art and Jewelry went through a period of popularity in the 19th century and the last century (prior to the Civil Rights Movement). At that time it was considered valuable art. Obviously, things change over time. What was once acceptable ma y not be any longer. Try to understand the timeframes of the art, design, etc on #Swans and appreciate where we have come from, historically. Enjoy!!

@madelinekimbro2440 4 месяца назад

Not to mention the hand sculpture... interesting...

@LJB103 4 месяца назад

Excellent video. She was a truly elegant woman. Having read individual biographies of both Bill Paley and Babe (plus her sisters), what came across was the basis for his marrying her: he was a social climbing nobody who made a lot of money; her sister Betsy was married to Jock Whitney - Paley really wanted to say he was Whitney's brother-in-law. However, I again have to say that I feel the apartments, while not as bad as some, are rather claustrophobic. I like "stuff," but enough is enough. Too many of these apartments and homes are designed on the principle of "nothing exceeds like excess."

@ilanamillion8942 4 месяца назад

The first apartment in particular looked very dark and gloomy. I would be depressed all the time if I had to live there. The proliferation of chairs gives the rooms a very claustrophobic feel.

@terri6854 3 месяца назад

Corny pretentiousness isn't "elegance".

@brendadrew834 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the grand tour and great commentary! When I was a fashion illustrator in NYC in the late 1960s/1970s I saw the Babe sitting in her silver Rolls Royce as she was driven by her chauffer rounding the corner of 5th Ave. and West 36th St. Even with gray tinted widows you could see how flawlessly beautiful she was with a perfect complexion and her finely chiseled features. She was very cold looking then, like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth! She was the epitome of classic timeless beauty and haute couture! Sadly she passed away from cancer because she had been a big time smoker as so many were back then i.e. also second hand smoke! The late greats Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis also died from the Big C because they had been big time smokers as well along with their great style and haute couture i.e. high fashion! I've also studied interior design so this was of great interest to me as well! Fashion and interior design go hand in hand!

@mepulley7913 3 месяца назад

I've always wondered why a woman who Chose to ignore her husband's infidelities is considered such a "icon"? Just because she had hobbies, didn't make Kenneddy-Onassis someone to admire. Money can clean and "adorn" many things. oh that's right, she really didn't have it - she married it. Once again with an older man who basically held her as a prop. Even plotted to ensure she would not, and could not lay claim to any of his money.

@PeterMcDonald-sl9rt 3 месяца назад

Sadly, heavy cigarette smoking was considered a diet aid. This was how tobacco was marketed to "liberated" women following WW One. A famous magazine ad showed an elegant, plump woman reaching for a bowl of candy, the copy said something like "Reach for the Kent, instead." Genrations of "fashionable" women, and men had their lives shortened by smoking, which was considered "sexy."

@tundrawomansays694 3 месяца назад

⁠@@mepulley7913*Because the world of women was very constricted at that time.* A woman could not get a mortgage, a credit card, a car loan etc. without a male signature, daddy’s or husband’s typically. Consequently, being among the NY social elite was quite an accomplishment. It was the women who orchestrated that realm (in support of their powerful husbands) and as a result they also were highly socially prominent. Fashion mattered at that time and these women routinely appeared on the “Best Dressed” List of that era. They were elegant, cool, reserved, the epitome of style and excellent taste, had impeccable manners and didn’t put their private lives out for public consumption-which was and still is vulgar. *Your knowledge of that era is wildly uninformed.*

@leeboriack8054 3 месяца назад

The heavily fabriced rooms was a way to express wealth, create drama and help with acoustics.

@mepulley7913 3 месяца назад

@@leeboriack8054 - Sadly it still is with the old money wealth. I have a friend who works as an interior designer and says the same.

@Dovietail 3 месяца назад

Bedrooms? Bathrooms? Kitchen? Sadly, these are the rooms that I am DEEPLY interested in and the ones least likely EVER to be photographed. 😶😢😖

@dalhousiekid 4 месяца назад

All the drapery...and all the dust settling in it. Very claustrophic (1st apt.)

@ericcarlson3746 3 месяца назад

i was also thinking "fire hazard", between normal life and all the ciggies

@giamccormick536 4 месяца назад

Sometimes less is more 😊

@twilightbabe123 4 месяца назад

The rooms, the furniture, the drapes and the overall busy patterns give me claustrophobia. Was this really Babe Paley’s aesthetic?

@MegAplin 3 месяца назад

Don't think so....she was after all a Cushing...I'd say the designers.

@alegreone 4 месяца назад

All I can think about is all the money that was spent on that decor that was saturated with stinky smoke. Such an “elegant” setting that reeked?

@understandingthetimes4544 3 месяца назад

If you look at old magazines in that era, this is what you would see within their pages. The designs of the rooms in this style

@thezmanchar 4 месяца назад

Faith, I wish someone would see all this hard work and you do your show on television. You are so talented.

@cocoaddams4502 4 месяца назад

Somebody said "men marry up and women marry down" and I see it over and over in these marriages. Babe was the daughter of a surgeon and went to private school. Paley's father was a tailor, I think. Nothing wrong with it and it's very American but it is interesting to see it happen all the time.

@queen-estherobasi4086 4 месяца назад

I think the statement really truly only applies to America (well mostly anyway).

@apebass2215 4 месяца назад

She didn't marry Paley's father though. She wouldn't have married him if he wasn't a competent and financially successful business owner.

@cocoaddams4502 4 месяца назад

@@apebass2215 He was successful and must have been incredibly charming. But he was also Jewish and those lines still existed in WASP society. She was a catch and he caught her. She did pretty well too, I have to say.

@apebass2215 3 месяца назад

@@cocoaddams4502 yes, he was a successful Jewish businessman who made a great deal of money. Still failing to see what makes you think she "married down".

@cocoaddams4502 3 месяца назад

@@apebass2215 In terms of social class -- she came from an affluent family, went to better schools, had more well-connected and socially-acceptable friends and relatives. She could have married into that class but didn't. She married down. For his part I'm sure part of Paley's attraction to her was that she was from an upper class. Marrying her meant acceptance into a class he wasn't born into. It's like John Kennedy and Jackie Bouvier. His grandfather ran a bar. Her relatives were old money. She married down, he married up. My favorite example of this is Irving Berlin. He wanted to marry an heiress but her family told her if she married (jewish, lower class) Berlin, she'd be cut out of the will. She married him anyway. I'm sure he provided for her very very well though. -- Preston Sturgis wrote about this. He said that the only time it seemed to go the opposite way -- women marrying up and men down -- was when the woman is extremely beautiful. I think he called it a beauty passport or something. this is why you see Dukes marrying models.

@danielmartin7714 4 месяца назад

Paleys had a beautiful townhouse on Beekman Place that later became the residence of Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the twin sister of the Shah and United Nations Ambassador

@rosewatersaffron8430 22 дня назад

My father told me once about her. She was feared in Iran because of her ruthlessness.

@SomeOne-mp6ym 4 месяца назад

I'm not sure. The rooms did not feel relaxed to me. Some of the chairs were randomly placed and didn't fit in. I wanted to like this.

@jw77019 3 месяца назад

There is so much commentary on here about smoking making things unpleasant. I have never smoked and it makes me nauseated to be in a smoker’s presence. However I am 60 and well into adulthood before I had ever heard of a non-smoking hotel room. Smokers were required to sit in the back of planes at some time about 1980. There used to be frequent airliner crashes, and often the back of the fuselage broke off and didn’t burn, so the smokers were saved. This was true with Delta 191 at DFW, and a few others. Anyway, both my parents smoked. Their cars could be unpleasant as they smoked continuously. Our house never had a smoky smell. After a large party once or twice a year, they would open the windows and doors and refresh. I think the cigarettes today leave more smell because the tobacco is treated with something to make it more addictive. The first time I ever noticed an unpleasant smell at the office was from a secretarwho smoked Vantage, which were supposed to be especially well filtered. I think they were later taken off the market because the filter was found to be harmful. Anyway, things were not as unpleasant back then as ,any of you seem to think. Another difference between now and then is things were cleaned thoroughly on a regular basis. Once a year, all the curtains would have been sent to the cleaners, all the rugs sent out to specialized rug maintenance services, and most importantly once a week every room had all the furniture pulled away and dusted and vacuumed in a more detailed way than anyone except Martha Stewart does. So think what you will about smoking, and it is disgusting, but things were not smelly back then.

@raquelduquedeestrada1129 4 месяца назад

Loved their lifestyle! I was born in 1954 but the style of the 40’s was my fav!

@breznevolaso4090 4 месяца назад

A person with a highest form of taste- reflects to such individual- the way they dressed and the way their interior homes were put up. For taste; just like class cannot be bought but can be polished.

@justme061666 3 месяца назад

Honestly all those talking about how everything must have smelled from smoking…….think for a moment……..they had people that constantly cleaned and aired the apt. I’m sure they could afford dry cleaning for the drapes.

@timesawasting7532 3 месяца назад

Thanks.

@massimosquecco8956 3 месяца назад

That's the problem with perfection: once achieved there is no place to go, this is why somebody else starts from scratch and builds a total different excellence, on different premises, making the previous "perfection" oeuvre, temporarily obsolete. And it goes on and on: This is Fashion, the spirit of the times with its champions, villains, losers and old timers. All well thought and made stuff is valid anyway and, beside being used long after the times they where hip, at the end their worth becomes -above all - historic and it will end in musea as lesson & inspiration for the new generations. Thank you so much Babe with your 3 family names

@TheFiown 4 месяца назад

I think that there is more 'original' 18 th century French furniture in the US than was ever made in France ! It's a bit like the work of artist Corot who painted about 2000 paintings and 5000 of which can be found in Japan alone ! Babe was said to have the most beautiful neck in high society and it was also said that she had some sort of peel done on it to improve it.

@krisbetts9186 3 месяца назад

Big mistake to paint the taxicab yellow walls gray. Sister Parrish knew what she was doing! The Billy Baldwin brown calico is depressing. I remember his brown kick my mom painted our bathroom glossy brown! We kids HATED it said it looked like poop. She repainted it immediately a soft glossy pale yellow. Much better

@gregoryambres1897 4 месяца назад

Speaking of Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, might you please do a video on that? Or have you already done?

@CulturedElegance 4 месяца назад

Excellent idea! That will be my next video!

@user-fu5nz3pi9i 3 месяца назад

FYI: Herter Brothers was the original decorators of the public rooms at the St. Regis. Although noted for their Aesthetic Movement interiors, the company supplied revival interiors during their entire history.

@fifthavenue8505 4 месяца назад

Thank you for creating this beautiful video. It was like sitting and eating a big box of the best chocolates in the world -I'm sure you know which I'm alluding to and maybe eating equally delicious ice cream and a big cake with layered cream cheese frosting, then some cherries from your sour whisky -but, forget the whisky. It was so beautiful. The photographs of Babe Paley too, oh, she was SO beautiful! I could watch this every night!

@caroltanzi29 4 месяца назад

This was another fabulous video showing beautiful interiors displaying gorgeous home furnishings and accessories. I so enjoyed it. Carol from California

@CulturedElegance 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much for your kind comment Carol! I’m so glad you enjoyed the video!

@DuckyQSimmons 4 месяца назад

I am delighted with this Paley video you have created. Extraordinary detail! Would it be possible for you to cover some more Swans, such as Slim, CZ Guest, Lee Radziwell et al? I’ve seen pictures of Radziwell’s home in London, which I believe she decorated and pictures of her Paris apartment. There is so much intrigue surrounding Radziwell. CZ Guest is of so much interest because of her standing in society, her influence on gardening etc, etc. Love your channel. When I’m exasperated with reality in this 21st century, I love to look through your videos. Thanks much 💕

@chrisjone7555 3 месяца назад

new york times did a story on Lee's Paris apartment.

@DuckyQSimmons 3 месяца назад

@@chrisjone7555 Ah, thanks so much for sharing this Chris! I’ll look into it. Have a great day ☀️

@TheFiown 4 месяца назад

The large dog painting over the sofa now belongs to Lars Bollander, a Swedish interior designer.

@cocoaddams4502 4 месяца назад

I live for random YT comments like this. Honestly. Thank you.

@TheFiown 4 месяца назад

I have seen my looking through auction catalogues and books for a painting that I have seen in someone's home, it bugs me until I know. I love this particular painting since I saw it in Bollanders home in his book so it stuck in my mind. I once saw a painting in a newspaper and tracked it down to the Louvre who had purchased it so I went to the Louvre (I lived in Paris ) and asked to see the painting and one of the curators took me to see it, gorgeous painting. It stood on an easel next to the 'Feast of Canna' but has since been hung elswhere. It is called 'two hounds attached to a stump' by Jacopo Bassano if you care to look it up ! Have a nice day.@@cocoaddams4502

@pamelas1561 4 месяца назад

She had style, she had grace...(song) But it was a shock to see her standing with a cigarette in a smoke-filled room with all that cotton wall fabric.

@akrenwinkle 4 месяца назад

Babe Paley threw it all away for cigarettes. People will boo-hiss, but it's true.

@lisakenny8113 4 месяца назад

And the filthy back of the white chair😳

@akrenwinkle 4 месяца назад

@@lisakenny8113 Probably from icky hair products. I have to say that I'm hardly the classiest mammal, but even I know gauche, tacky style when I see it. The only theme I detect is excess.

@MegAplin 3 месяца назад

@@akrenwinkle they were her crutches for a bad marriage. That was the 1960s. Sad really.

@akrenwinkle 3 месяца назад

@@MegAplin Of course I'm guessing, but judging from her posing with her long, elegant holder, and her style-is-everything mentality, I think she thought it was soigné. I also think smoking every waking moment doesn't even get one high any more. Common sense would say it's the occasional smoker who'd get buzzed. I think some might hope it's a crutch, but its effectiveness as a crutch is zilch.

@timirish2563 3 месяца назад

I adore both versions of the tented room. Just the simple addition of cotton as the primary fabric relaxes me. The ultimate furnishing, natch, was Mrs. Paley herself. So beautiful; so chic. You would have to go far into history to find a woman so lovely.

@jogianni100 4 месяца назад

Yellow taxi cab walls very clever

@maxlinder5262 4 месяца назад

Personally....I couldn't live in a place with sooo much going on.........But when did They meet Capote...????😊

@SandViolet 4 месяца назад

January 1955. By mistake, supposedly. Bill Paley mistook Truman (name) with President Truman. A well-known anecdote that's most probably false.

@user-cq4kw1eo9z 4 месяца назад

I think that designer was having a laugh

@leslieplayfair9836 3 месяца назад

Sssshhh. It was the style of the day.

@Richardsonprincess00 4 месяца назад

Hopefully, they'll show details of Truman Capote's Swans 🦢 soon.

@sharonsmith583 4 месяца назад

Excellent video but all that dust (and smoke) catching fabric!

@user-nc3ig2mf7p 4 месяца назад

What was up with that one pink chair towards the end? It was filthy, can’t help but wonder if that was hair product or color that rubbed off on the top of the back, the arm tips were grimy too…maybe that was Bill’s chair & he forbade it be touched 😂

@timward3116 4 месяца назад

It's funny, when the rich have copies of something, it's called a "reproduction." When the working class has a copy of something, it's called a "dupe." Never one to be impressed by pearled socialites or their tuxedoed hubbies (because wealth never implies real class), I do appreciate the artistry of the people they hire to make their stay on this planet as comfortable and oblivious as possible. Paley's iconic (isn't everything old and expensive now called "iconic"?) apartment does have a certain charm.

@Mrs.TJTaylor 4 месяца назад

She was a heavy smoker. Can you imagine the smell of those wall to wall draped, and upholstered rooms? Must have smelled like a hundred dirty ashtrays.

@sandrasanders706 3 месяца назад

And cleaning it..😮🤢

@priyathebrantley4048 4 месяца назад

Omg thank you so much for posting this!

@CulturedElegance 4 месяца назад

Of course! Thank you!! Likewise!

@bryanspindle4455 4 месяца назад

The rooms were stunning but l would be constantly worried about the risk of fire with so much fabric on the walls. Especially with smoking. It must have held a lot of dust too.

@skyqueen1148 4 месяца назад

I agree. I think the brown wall hanging room looks hideous, too. What was Billy thinking?

@elizabethmadron1336 4 месяца назад

How do you dust fabric walls? I guess you vacuum them.

@christinepaige2575 4 месяца назад

My favorite room is the yellow living room in the 5th Avenue apartment, pre-80s spruce-up. That radiant shade of yellow is so warm and beautiful.

@Nunofurdambiznez 3 месяца назад

Every aspect of this video, whether it be Mrs. Paley's hair, makeup, outfits, and mostly her decorating taste is stunning and spectacular! Thank you for posting this incredible gem - hope there's more to come !!

@jchow5966 3 месяца назад

Thank you for this excellent episode!!

@lonestar1637 3 месяца назад

I loved the look, especially the dining room wall fabric. My mother was very beautiful and glamorous, Texas style. No matter how often we were transferred ( my father was a petroleum engineer) our homes always looked so lovely. I still have some of her hostess gowns. There is a good documentary on RU-vid about William Baldwin, and how he stood up to the studio heads in order to live his life openly as a gay man with his partner of many decades, and then became the famous designer he is known as. He was a big time star in the twenties and thirties??, but decided to live his live on his own terms.

@aiangimenezazurmendi6529 2 месяца назад

the style is exquisite but most people get lost when they dont see gray board floors or live love laugh paintings

@ednaamck3831 3 месяца назад

I guess I like the second apartment with the large windows in the living room best. I love a lot of west facing windows. I want sunlight spilling in daily and plenty of “fresh” air to keep the place ventilated.

@shakehgeorgian2077 Месяц назад

What an extraordinary lady!! 🫶🏻

@jansilverthorn777 3 месяца назад

As a smoker, I can imagine how all that fabric reeks. 😮

@dilshaddealwis6543 4 месяца назад

Riveting as always. Thank you

@marloflanagan7421 3 месяца назад

The first thing you'd be greeted with when you walked in the door would be the stench of Marlboro country. Yech.

@akrenwinkle 2 месяца назад

I saw a photo of elderly Garbo smoking and was surprised to see her pack of Marlboros on the table. I would have thought some chi-chi European brand.

@Cheryl-dy5ug 2 месяца назад

Everyone smoked then so they didn't notice

@starwonder54 4 месяца назад

Billy Baldwin was noted for the use of brown in his interiors…It was all of a certain time of exaggerated and over-the-top tastes and styles…Sadly for Babe Paley, it did not lead to happiness or longevity….

@claudetteholloway1126 3 месяца назад

Brown. ICK!!!

@Pennypacker0602 4 месяца назад

Yessss the fifth avenue swans. Truman’s girls

@Brsbeach 4 месяца назад

Amazingly beautiful! Like a dream of fictional luxury come to life! - I could watch them for hours! thanks so much!

@ed_leonardi 3 месяца назад

When rich people had class...the decor of all her residences were divine!

@cherylb2008 4 месяца назад

Taxi cab yellow What a stunning stunning apartment That woman had so much taste and flair Beautiful beautiful

@angelwingz892 4 месяца назад

Her designers did.

@marylou3995 4 месяца назад

If you are rich,you are automatically Beautiful!

@moxielouise 3 месяца назад

I lived the briwn and pink floral and how ut was used and i loved that wallpaper in the dining room

@forestfields 3 месяца назад

And the price that was paid for all those elegant photos of Babe standing in a ball gown with a cigarette in an ivory holder was premature death at the age of 63 from lung cancer. Thank goodness we don't glamorize smoking anymore.

@MrPh30 4 месяца назад

Hemingway’s houses would be a good episode also

@cynthiajohnston424 3 месяца назад

Yes , please !!

@erinwoempner1228 3 месяца назад

Absolutely a beautiful time to live as far as apartments and clothing and people had manners just to go back to that time would be amazing

@AngelBaby-cp6kf Месяц назад

One can really forget the world outside when one enters those apartments.

@pennya.5892 3 месяца назад

The only thing I like about these interiors are the priceless paintings!

@susanjoycesabo8450 2 месяца назад

Wow! Surely a bygone era but fun to review. Of course the principals of this video would look down upon the rest of us as "the great unwashed." One rule I have noted is how those stylish women always wore their pearl strands in odd numbers, and that seemed to work!

@SMtWalkerS 3 месяца назад

Tented rooms! That's a lot of fabric.

@philliperocha1124 3 месяца назад

So fancy! A very gorgeous and fine women, thank you for sharing this kind of dazzling and richinly searched content

@joywetzel4640 4 месяца назад

Alright another great video

@CulturedElegance 4 месяца назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@deminnie5838 3 месяца назад

What are the state of these homes now? Who lives there, have they been maintained etc. ?

@barryarmstrong1130 4 месяца назад

What a phenomenal treat!

@dennisoconnor4387 4 месяца назад

Anything Blue! Was wonderful.

@christineconroykristeller5221 4 месяца назад

Am I the only one who thinks those brown and pink draperies are ugly?

@user-tl2qt8mz8y 4 месяца назад

Yes, i agree, they would hurt your eyes after a while

@christinepaige2575 4 месяца назад

I think they are ugly too! It’s a dead-looking shade of brown, and covering so much of the room with it creates an oppressive feeling.

@TheBeautifulWindsofAragon 4 месяца назад

Since they were chain smokers, they probably had a nasty smell as well.

@d.l.l.6578 4 месяца назад

No.

@d.l.l.6578 4 месяца назад

@@TheBeautifulWindsofAragonthey smoked to keep their weight down. They all knew it caused cancer.

@stephaniestanley8041 4 месяца назад

Beautiful Babe

@jaygatsby2790 3 месяца назад

The only thing I can think of is: "Gawd, that place must absolutely REEK of stale cigarettes!" All that fabric is nothing but a giant floor to ceiling cigarette filter.

@DrRichardMarques 4 месяца назад

Incredible! ⭐️

@Mrrossj01 4 месяца назад

The grunge on the chair in the Library, which by the way is missing a single book, must be hair dye. But from which Paley? Also, New York is notorious for air pollution, so how could anyone keep all that fabric clean? Ms. Paley died in her early sixties. Her heavy smoking coupled with living in one of the most polluted cities in America did her in.

@fancycat 3 месяца назад

Finally someone mentioned the dirty head rest on the chair 😂😂. It was driving me crazy 🤣🤣. Why didn't they reupholster?

@gregoryhofelich6693 3 месяца назад

I had a client who used brilliantine in his hair... his special chair for relaxing acquired such s "patina" from where hus head would loll back... my guess is this was Mr. Paley's favorite, and was therefore left as-is!

@larrywakeman4371 4 месяца назад

Stellar..... Kimberly

@jcnyc9087 3 месяца назад

Cultured Elegance is palpably enamored with the wealthy society people about whom she posts. Her cultured diction is as perfect as what one surmises Babe Paley's was.

@CulturedElegance 3 месяца назад

Your comment is so kind! Thank you very much

@jhash9554 4 месяца назад

Can you imagine the cigarette smell in those drapes! Yikes

@Leemac--gg1 3 месяца назад

lovely!

@kevinchaffee9694 4 месяца назад

Very well done, interesting video, but I would lose the annoying piano background noise.

@user-hn1sw4cf7x 3 месяца назад

Awesome 🎉

@moneysmartsmallbiz. 5 дней назад

great video!❤

@ajvintage9579 3 месяца назад

I’m probably the only commenter here who liked all of the decor.

@user-jn3in4rr1h 3 месяца назад

Why is it that people think extravagant, over the top, is in good taste?

@gloriastroedecke2717 3 месяца назад

I think the yellow room had warmth. But the brown was horrible. I do recall from childhood the was a brief ti.e when brown became popular, but I didn't like it as I thought it looked dirty.

@dissidentfairy4264 3 месяца назад

Aside from the high ceilings and exquisite architectural details, I thought the rooms were rather boring, with the bland muted colors. Some rooms almost reminded me of Neapolitan ice cream after it melts. 🧚✨💫

@jamieluce5808 3 месяца назад

All of this fabulous socializing and I wonder if any of them were truly friends to one another??

@Italy55 4 месяца назад

Too much of everything.

@kevinwhelan9607 14 дней назад

The art critic and Picasso biographer John Richardson said the Paley's were the only ones to get everything in their various homes exactly right - high praise indeed. All the same, one must ask what was the point when the people they wanted to impress were uniformly ghastly as Truman Capote eventually discovered, though he must have figured that out long before they showed him the proverbial and literal door.

@swengeer 4 месяца назад

Looks like a warehouse for all the junk not sold at a flea market. How gauche.

@Susieq26754 4 месяца назад

She always looked bored with life.

@Elizabeth-yg2mg 3 месяца назад

Probably was.

@TJ-gm2uy 4 месяца назад

I smoke but in my garage never never in my home can you imagine the damage from nicotine smoke in all that luxurious fabric

@Elizabeth-yg2mg 3 месяца назад

She died of lung cancer.

@deniseelalahoho50 2 месяца назад

I never understood why papered or fabric walls matched with fabric chairs of equally busy looking patterns were considered art. The art work though, incredible.