Word: schonbrunn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shades of Lauder blue are everywhere. Porcelain bowls of French beaded flowers, porcelain birds of jeweled hues, drapes copied from the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna . . . Oriental carpets resting on Lauder blue carpeting . . . It's very thrilling." Estee Lauder loves her lavish office. She is equally entranced by her three-story Manhattan town house, the 27-room redoubt in Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen...
...nothing are Lauder's curtains copied from the Schonbrunn Palace. In the past, according to Israel, she has beguiled the press with tales of a gently bred Hungarian-Viennese mother, a Czech father with imperial connections, a childhood spent on an estate in Flushing, N.Y. Now she tells most of the essential truth: her parents were poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and she grew up in the shabby Corona section of Queens. Israel gleefully supplies many more humble details, but Lauder gives what is probably the most important one: as a child, little Josephine Esty Mentzer was ashamed...