An intimate snapshot: Bedrooms of famous cultural icons from around the world.
1. Marina Abramovic put her minimalist Soho loft on the market for $3.5 million earlier this fall. If those walls could talk, imagine the performance art secrets they’d reveal
2. You can probably guess that Frank Sinatra’s favorite color was orange. Evidently, he thought it was the “happiest.”
3. The only thing that’s missing from this photo of Ernest Hemingway’s bedroom is one of the 40 polydactyl cats said to overrun the Key West property.
4. Most of Emily Dickinson’s work was done at a small writing table in her bedroom study. Pretty austere surroundings, wouldn’t you say?
5. Here, Patti Smith sits in her pal William S. Burroughs’ bedroom at The Bunker on the Bowery.
6. Who would have figured Woody Allen as a collector of 19th-century framed samplers?
7. You can’t make them out in this photo, but Truman Capote kept detective magazines on the bedside table in his Hamptons beach house.
8. According to his interior designer Jed Johnson, Andy Warhol liked to hide his jewelry in the canopy of this imposing Federal mahogany bed.
9. Palazzo Chupi, the very pink condo building that Julian Schnabel built on top of a former horse stable in the West Village, has been described as “an exploded Malibu Barbie house.” That description probably works for his bedroom, too.
10. Virginia Woolf apparently liked to have breakfast in bed before heading off to her writing room for the day. Leonard, of course, dutifully brought it to her.
11. Thanks to a few bright pops of color, William and Elaine de Kooning’s bedroom in their home in East Hampton comes across as cheerful rather than spartan.
Images from Flavorwire.
