Mitchell Owens

This article originally appeared in the December/January 1992 issue of ELLE DECOR. For more stories from our archive, subscribe to ELLE DECOR All Access.You don’t just hail a taxi to get to Mica and Ahmet Ertegun’s house in Turkey. It’s less a trip than a mammoth portage—though everyone who has stayed there agrees that a week with the Erteguns is well worth the myriad inconveniences involved in the journey. As art historian John Richardson attests, the seaside retreat of the Atlantic Records fou…

Lee Radziwill may have been best known as Jackie Kennedy’s younger sister. Throughout the 1960s, however, she was also part of one of Truman Capote’s so-called “swans”—a cohort of glamorous high-society women that the novelest befriended...and eventually betrayed in an infamous Esquire article, “La Côte Basque, 1965.” Eventually, Radziwill blazed her own trail as an interior decorator, with clientele such as dancer Rudolf Nureyev, Americana hotels, and Lord Taylor. But the swans, once again, ar…

“I decorate like I do a collection, putting the familiar with the kooky,” the fashion designer told us in 2009.

Once home to a fake contessa, a Mediterranean Revival received a family-friendly—but still glam—overhaul, thanks to Mark D. Sikes.

Fresh colors, cool art, and far-flung furnishings are how Miles Redd teaches an old house new tricks