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In that same video promoting his Carpenters Workshop Gallery collaboration, Lagerfeld talks about how in Germany, 100 years ago, “a married woman never sat on a sofa with a man who wasn’t her husband,” and that was why communal areas from that period seldom featured sofas. He wasn’t a steward of institutional memory he was institutional memory. Perhaps that’s why he was so good at fashion, and why each one of his interiors has such a spellbinding effect. Knowledge and hard work appear to have been the pillars of Lagerfeld’s creativity-and why he was able to float between diametrically opposed design sensibilities with ease. And, of course, there was the Belle Époque hilltop summer house in Monte Carlo, of which the late André Leon Talley famously said that houseguests on vacation were expected to change “at least twice, if not three times a day.” Surprisingly, it was reported in October 2008 that Lagerfeld purchased a Greek Revival brick home on Vermont’s Lake Champlain-and based on his *Mad Libs–*style penchant for unexpected design pairings, the imagination runs wild with what he could have possibly been doing inside a home on the state’s Historic Registry.Īn ivory satin shell sofa and armchairs-which had originally been in an Elsie de Wolfe designed home-in Lagerfeld’s Paris bedroom Photo: Horst P. After that was a spaceship-modern apartment with stainless steel and glass furniture in a 200 year-old building on the Quai Voltaire in Paris. Then came a cavernous apartment inside the 1707 Hôtel Pozzo di Borgo near the Musée d’Orsay, filled with Louis XV gilt-wood antiques. Ten years later, he entered a maximalist phase, collecting the technicolor building block style furniture of Italy’s postmodernist Memphis movement. In the 1970’s, he redid a 19th-century apartment on Paris’s Left Bank into all Deco-inspired black and white.

Lagerfeld’s personal real estate holdings over the years were significant, with each one decorated differently from the next.

He certainly had plenty of opportunities to experiment with interior design.