Architectural Digest, September 1985
Interiors by Emilio Carcano
Photographs by Derry Moore
Original text by Lee Radzwill
Two different views of the drawing room of Rudolph Nureyev's Paris apartment. The walls are covered in Cordova leather panels. The sofas are covered in a rich Genoese velvet (below). The Neo-Gothic frieze and specimen marble chimney (above) were designed by art director Emilio Carcano to be unashamedly romantic and a reflection of Nureyev's rich imagination.
The dining room-cum-library with its collection of French Academic paintings. The table is a 19th Century example done in vert des Pyrenees marble. The 19th Century Russian sofa is covered in Caucasian kilims.
The guest room with its adjacent trompe l'oiel decorated bathroom. The Bibiena engravings depict the history of Baroque theatre design.
The Vienna State Opera Ballet's 1967 production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in the lead roles.
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How wonderful for you to post about this! I saved this magazine from since I was a little boy (well, 1985 anyway) - I still have it! I think this apt. is everything I could ever dream about, and have since 1985!
Yes, yes, yes! He was draped exactly like this! Amazing.
Leather panels? Wow.
Ballet is more lucrative than I thought.
Nureyev's personal assistant once took a 'friend' of mine to Nureyev's New York apartment which I imagine was as sublime as this one. However, one of the Roman sculptures of a male torso now has a coffee mug ring stain on the plinth. My 'friend' is a prat.
Seems like me, (and others), you have a fan in Scala Regia...lifting your photos...(albeit public ones), directly onto his. How original he isn't.
And let's not forget that gorgeous Uzbek? Afghan? chapan he's wearing. I adore the interior but nothing beats that costume. I collect those little hats so I honed in on the clothing first. Hard sometimes to remember him that young and beautiful — but then, weren't we all in those days!
one of the all-time great ad covers! i'm so inspired by nureyev's apartment in paris. it's heaven!
I too saved the issue and have always been in awe of the intensity of the rooms- such a complete vision. I wish others had photographed them outside of the Digest style so we could’ve really seen what those rooms looked like. Aside from the furnishings I wonder if they are still intact?
JS - His estate was sold by Christie's in 1995/96 to benefit his foundations. And, his heirs I suspect as the will was contested.
C - try not to be too hard on him, he's young and brash. He will learn.
I'm an orient express girl. This interior is all I've been dreaming about . I love the cordoba leather on the walls, the nude men on the wall are also incredible .
Great post
The ikat chapan is amazing. Oh, I want to lounge just like this!
In my earlier post what I meant to say but did not write was-- "is the apartment still intact?"
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