Georgette Mosbacher's Fifth Ave home has hosted guests from president's to kings to movie stars. It's filled with beautiful architectural detail and décor at every turn. This home epitomizes New York Luxury at its best.
I can't decide what's more beautiful, the home or her. I love her quote, "People always enjoy a party more if they think they look really good". So true.
She is a diva, elegant, sophisticated, very classy and gorgeous! She knows a lot and a lot to teach, specially about discretion, power and self confidence! Thank you for sharing! 🌹
What a beautiful and elegant home presented by Georgette Mosbacher! I am so happy to see all the beautiful details. Ms Mosbacher is wearing a lovely caftan which is a hostess dress. I am overwhelmed by the amazing architectural details! Thank you for inviting us into your home.
Hostess gown, library as entertainment space, round table for dinner seating; Georgette is very Old Guard, Old School. I imagine younger people who are used to more minimalist design might see this and have conniption, lol.
Minimalism is CHEAP AND EASY TO PRODUCE. That's why it's perennially pushed by merchandisers as "what the young people want". They've probably been saying that since 1902. Calvin Klein, who at 75 is actually four years OLDER THAN Mrs. Mosbacher, recently tore down a Victorian mansion in Southampton, and has just finished building and furnishing a relentlessly minimalist home on the site.
Georgette's caftan, had one similar to it, in the 70's...when In Jersey- Atlantic City.....gave it a friend doing a pre-'la cage aux folle' folly.....comfy
Darling it's called a caftan. Definately a nice upper class word for what might be refered to by middle class or otherwise as a moo moo. Or if you live in a double wide you call it your eatin' shirt
Having seen the Mona Ackerman apartment in the same building with basically the same layout, it's interesting to see the decor difference, Ackerman apartment had amazing boiserie in the living room and of course the best ceiling in New York design by Peter Marino.
Surely that ceiling and boiserie predated Marino! Still, the decor is nicer than you'd expect, considering how Marino dresses himself. Hard to believe that the place went for only 18. But then, that was a few years back. But yes, the ceiling is astonishing.
Marino did install the ceiling, he copied it from the ceiling in the gallery of Syon House in London and the boiserie was most likely installed when Barbara Hutton owned the apartment. the thing about the way Marino dresses is that it's relatively new, for most of his career he was very preppy and was the A- list decorator for the money no object set and executed some of the most beautiful domestic interior I've ever seem, then he stated doing commercial spaces and dressing like a leather daddy, which I think was a midlife crisis thing.
Interesting! So, basically, he was able to have his draftsmen adapt the geometry to the space, and then tell whoever executed the work, to copy Syon House. His design input would have been minimal. I always saw his interiors as being somewhere between "Fern Bar in a Strip Mall" and Renzo Mongiardino. But his commercial work is ridiculous, and that "Tom of Finland Museum Look" is just nauseating. That crap may have been chic in 1930-something, when Warfield Wallis Simpson was tying-up the Duke, and whipping him with her little whip she kept in the special case. But today, it's so trite it makes my brain itch.
You have me at a disadvantage, I don't know what a "Fern Bar in a Strip Mall" is, but I do imagine that looking up at a large white ceiling and trying to decide what to do with it could be a challenge and he did change the colour scheme of the ceiling to fit the Russian theme of the apartment. Mark Hampton did the same room in the Susan and Carter Burden apartment in the same building and left the ceiling plain and white. What is most interesting to me is the scale of these apartment.
There's a Wikipedia entry for 'Fern Bar'. They persisted into the early 90s, in strip centers and malls, and were attached, mostly, to "family restaurants". Ferns, lots of Kelly Green, brass railings, fake Tiffany lamps... And Marino's work reminded me of that look, a lot more than it reminded me of Renzo Mongiardino's.
SINCE Georgette has such a large dining table hope she is having dinners for newly arrived migrants. Perhaps she could put a few up for a while and help them look for housing. She does have quite a bit of unused space.
Georgette, you have a very lovely home. It must be nice to have enough money to pay for such eloquent living. But to be honest your home is too large for me . Love your doggie. You entertain well.
Typical of a classless, shallow person that question! People who have nothing to say or share, speaks about other people! Pity, you would learn so much from this fabulous woman and yet, you’ve only got stuck on appearance! Read some more, sophisticate yourself, of course you will never be 1% like her but, that 1/2 percent will be much better then you are today! Good luck🌹
Terrible. Just kitsch. Complete lack of class and sense of style. Would fit Russian provincial 3rd grade millionaire. Looks ridiculous. With all that money she couldn't hire someone who knows basics of design and class?
Bullshit. Nothing more than deep seated jealousy on your part. You know damn well that if you had her amount of money, you'd do the same thing. You liberal SJW's, and you're constant shitting on the success of others.
What a terrifing woman who made marring 30 years older affluent men to her profession. This apartment has nothing special in it. But she made it to become an ambassador. So pay all the millions for this apartment if you want to support that kind of a career. I wouldn't like the apartment for. Not very stylish
Those military coins look stupid. They should be displayed somewhere else. Lots of junky looking stuff around everywhere. Looks like you’re at a flea market.
Przecież ona żyje z pracy innych lodzi. Za to co ludziom zostało odebrane. To jest tragedia ludzkości, że muszą na takie potwory pracować. Potwory które przeżerają ich pieniądze, ich pracę. To się wcześniej czy późnij musi skończyć. Nie może być tak, że jedni ludzie konają obrabowane przez takich z głodu a bydlęce mafie złodziejski niewiedzą co z pieniędzmi robić. Życzę wszystkiego najgorszego i pracy na przyszłość z miotłą w szponach.
