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the prettiest
tree-has to be in Ann Getty's Music Room-
the prettiest book under the tree this year-
Ann Getty Interior Style.
the Christmas tree in the Getty Music Room is filled with thirty years of ornaments collected and made reflecting the Getty's love for the opera
The beauty of what's inside the book is
No Surprise. I've long followed the style and design elegance of Ann Getty. Her passion for Art-Design-& her Work is evident in the book's pages. Accompanying Getty on her opulent design journey is writer-Diane Dorrans Saeks- purveyor of all things beautiful-and beautifully distinctive to the West Coast and of far flung places beyond.
The book is a sliver of perfection-a exotic taste of Getty Opulence. Attention to detail and understanding of Getty's style and her pursuits are handled by author Diane Dorrans Saeks with finesse.Both women know themselves and each other-that is what makes the book one of those you will want to reach for time and again. Saeks moves through the homes of the Gettys with golden tales of history-art and design-in a language that reflects the mood created by Ann Getty's assemblage of lavish textiles and furnishings.
The Getty home in San Francisco is inhabited by the great-Artists, as well as the famous names of their day:
Degas and Matisse paintings in the Getty Living Room
Moreau, Renoir & Pissaro make appearances here as well
A Chandelier in the Dining Room belonged to Daisy Fellowes
Chinoiserie Panels were designed for the King of Poland
the Dining Room table set for the Holidays
Ann Getty poses for Harper's Bazaar in her Russian inspired Music Room
(the color and textiles Getty used in this room are amongst my personal favorites)
Curtains in Patchwork are from Nureyev's Paris Apartment
Caneletto and his pupil's work hang on a raspberry damask wall
(another of my favorite things- Patchwork)
Jacques Emile Blanche paints Nijinsky, the painting hangs in the Living Room
(I adore the works of Blanche)
Getty's signature colors are reprised in Peter Getty's Music Room
(the finish and walls in this room echo some of my own in a previous home)
A Lepage portrait of the Divine Sarah Bernhardt hangs in the peacock blue Living Room of the Getty's Temple of Wings estate
( Sarah Bernhardt and I share a birthday)
The Temple of Wings is dedicated to the Aesthetic Movement Collection amassed by the Gettys
(another favorite of my own is the Aesthetic Movement)
Frederick Leighton paintings hang in Temple Study
& what's equally revealing and another thing I like is Getty's easy going style-it's obvious she is at home in her formal surroundings
dressing simply & with ease.
I believe it's as easy to relax in a formal room as it is in any.
Ann Getty
Personal Style
to Note: Getty in jeans-a white shirt-and could it
be Minnetonka moccasins?
& the decrepit tufting on the cut crystal chair-(another of my favorite things "
If...don't fix it.")
once again-I say-get this book-destined to be a page worn Classic.
The Style Saloniste-Diane Dorrans Saeks wonderful blog
- HERE. Diane has her top ten book selections for the season published this week too.
Anne Getty Associates
HERE
(thank you to Rizzoli for the beautiful collection of photographs given by permission to use- with principal photographs by Lisa Romerien)
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