Inside Coco’s Private World
Inside Coco’s Private World
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- The dining room features mirrors with Murano glass inserted and a mantelpiece with a marble bust. The inlaid timber dining table can extend to seat more than six. Chanel would often entertain artists and other designers here.
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- Photographed in the famous chaise longue in 1937 by Horst P. Horst.
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- Note the wall lined with books and the collection of five boxes on the coffee table.
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- Chanel in front of the mantelpiece, looking up at the chandelier she commissioned to incorporate crystal camellias, interlinked Cs, a G for Gabrielle, and the number five.
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- The famous Chanel bags are a throwback to the quilted cushions on the beige sofa
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- For Chanel, wheat may have symbolised her poor childhood in the south of France.
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- Chenl was a Leo and a lover of Venice who surrounded herself with statuettes of lions in wood, silver, bronze and alabaster.
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- The famous chaise longue that was rescued by Karl Lagerfeld at an auction in 1986
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- Large beige sofa, collection of five small boxes, crystal balls and handmade chandelier commissioned by Chanel.
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- Sitting on the 1920s beige sofa in 1966; from left to right: Baroness Edmond de Rothschild, French actor Anouk Aimee, Marie-helene de Rosthchild (Baroness Guy de Rothschild) and Coco Chanel, wearing one of her own suits.
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- Chanel’s apartment has been repainted and re-carpeted only once since her death (in exactly the same colours.)
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- Brown, gold and beige tones offset the wooden Chinese screens dating from the 16th century.
