Word: triplex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Athens Apex. The talk starts smoothly at the reception Doxiadis gives on the evening before embarkation. His triplex apartment is on the highest rooftop on the highest street in Athens. His guests look out on painfully appropriate urban contrasts: from marble-and-plate-glass luxury across the charmless sprawl of the modern city to the ruined perfection of the floodlit Parthenon. This year former Democratic Senator William Benton was holding court on a huge sofa, playing the part he loves: the crusty old American millionaire. Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, now a consultant on conservation, silently contemplated a Boeotian vase...
Just to move her collection through the auction halls last week required eight separate sales in seven days. Said an appraiser for New York's Parke-Bernet Galleries, after picking through her 26-room Manhattan triplex penthouse at 625 Park Avenue: "She even had closets leading to closets." But many of her choicest treasures were kept in her Ile St. Louis flat in Paris (see color pages). On the sales' opening day, a La Fresnaye cubist painting of garden tools brought $100,000. Chagall's Lovers and the Moon fetched $24,000, and the Bonnard landscape...
...squirreled away under E for emeralds and R for rubies in a locked filing cabinet. No need for all the fuss, though. Three hoods tried to rob her a year before she died last spring, and elfin Helena angrily screamed them out of the bedroom of her Park Avenue triplex. The fabulously ill-kempt collection, amassed over 60 years and often valued at $1,000,000 survived until last week, when all but a dozen of the finest pieces willed to her sisters and niece were sold at auction in Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries for a total...
Rings & Rubies. Helena Rubinstein's personal wealth was estimated at $100 million, but her enjoyment of it was erratic. Her dark-dyed hair gathered back into a familiar bun, her fingers dripping rings and ruby polish, she held business conferences in her 26-room Park Avenue triplex, propped up in a garish bed whose Incite head-and footboard glowed under fluorescent light. Yet she vastly appreciated art, and acquired an extensive collection that included Renoir, Renault, Modigliani and Dali. Her jewelry was valued at $1,000,000, but she liked to mix dime-store baubles with antique pieces that...
...have told them she was a rough customer. So could the Revson boys. But all she looked like was a fragile little old lady, so these three tough guys, dressed up in blue delivery boy's suits and wrap-around sunglasses, broke into the 26-room Park Avenue triplex of Helena Rubinstein, who may or may not be 92 (her age is a bigger secret than her formulas). "Open the safe or we'll kill you," snarled the head hood. "Go ahead," she sneered. "I've lived my life. You can kill...