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...Dior's top designer, Marc Bohan, redecorated his apartment in the period. "I like things simple, austere even," he says. "It's my style. Also the soft, neutral colors of Louis Treize suit me." As different a type as Novelist James Jones also has decorated his Paris duplex with Louis XIII. "Yeah, I just like old medieval furniture," he says. He has turned a real pulpit into a bar and a prie-dieu into a barstool. "I like big, heavy stuff," Jones says...
...local color is graying around the edges now. The teeming foreign quarters are thinning out with the accents, as assimilation works her inexorable blending, and homey slums give way to lofty housing projects. Not much, in fact, enjoys permanence in New York: glimpses of ugly tenement and high-rent duplex shift kaleidescopically...
...belong neither to the Old Guard nor to the flashy new set but to a special stratum in between, a sort of nouveau niche. Mr. Goff is a lawyer, Mrs. Goff his first wife. Instead of an old-style town house or suburban estate, they have a wood-paneled-duplex city apartment. Like Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Goff, 33, is partial to Chanel, makes do at local shops and "the boutiques in New York, when it works out" between annual trips to Europe...
...85th Street entrance of a Fifth Avenue apartment, and unloaded the toys, clothes and furniture of Jacqueline Kennedy, 35, Caroline, 6, and John Jr., 3. Meanwhile Jackie, staying at the nearby Carlyle Hotel, went through the autumn whirligig of a Manhattan mother, supervising the redecoration of her 15-room duplex, which will be ready in a month or so, enrolling Caroline at the 91st Street Academy of the Sacred Heart, taking John for a ride on the Central Park carrousel. And then one day, she was out with her children rowing on the Central Park Serpentine, where an alert amateur...
Free Fragrance. With the fine flush of success, Barbra has hastily assembled some of the accouterments of the gracious life, but is plainly still out of phase with it. She has rented a penthouse duplex on Central Park West that was once the home of Lorenz Hart dur ing the great lyricist's last years. They have had the place about seven months, and it is still substantially empty, but Barbra is filling it with her own brand of antiques, the pursuit of which is her only hobby. She has an old dentist's cabinet for her ribbons...