Honoring Albert Hadley
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The dining room of Babe and William S. Paley’s Fifth Avenue apartment, decorated by Albert Hadley and his partner, Sister Parish.
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A mod herringbone floor joins peacock-blue walls in a New York City living room for attorney Frederic R. Coudert III; the large painting is by Larry Poons.
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An array of fantastical objects, ranging from antique to modern, displayed at Parish-Hadley Assoc.’s midtown Manhattan office in the ’90s.
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Hadley’s stylish Connecticut cottage.
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Hadley’s Manhattan living room in the 1980s, with tea-paper-clad walls, sculptural chairs, and one of the hooked zebra rugs he favored.
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French antiques dapple the serene living room of New York City clients Louise and Henry Grunwald.
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Hadley’s characteristically crisp take on country-house style at Cherryfields, the New Jersey home of socialite Nancy “Princess” Pyne.
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Mingling the influences of Parish-Hadley and Jansen—which supplied the boiserie—the Paleys’ New York City living room was painted a glossy taxicab-yellow and outfitted with French and Asian antiques and brown satin sofas.
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A detail of Brooke Astor’s famous Manhattan library, where her late husband’s rare books filled enamel-and-brass bookcases; the sofa is covered in Brunschwig & Fils’s La Portugaise print.
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Sophie and Leonard Davis’s living room in Palm Beach, Florida, was a ’70s project by Hadley.
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Happy Rockefeller’s Fifth Avenue apartment, where the interior designer used Giacometti and Jean-Michel Frank furnishings commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller in the late ’30s.
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In a Manhattan master bedroom created for Astor, cheerful pastel Alan Campbell fabrics give the space the atmosphere of a country garden painted by one of the Impressionists.
