As Mauries summarizes: Lagerfeld collected interiors in the same way that Don Juan notched up conquests.
Lagerfeld sought to go beyond a mere exercise in style and build up an unmatchable collection, Kalt continues.
Dresses are only interesting as part of everything else thats going on, he toldVogueback in 1989.
Karl Lagerfeld poses in front of a tiered bureau with amaranth and mahogany inlays at Hôtel Pozzo di Borgo, attributed to Jean-François Oeben.
Below, a preview of Lagerfelds artful homes, as published inKarl Lagerfeld: A Life in Houses.
Karl Lagerfeld at Rue de lUniversite, Paris, early 1960s.
Karl Lagerfeld in his bedroom at Villa La Vigie, Roquebrune-Cap- Martin.
Karl Lagerfeld posing for a German magazine, in a new version of the sitting room, in 1972.
Karl Lagerfelds office in his one-time Paris apartment, where he worked and received visitors.
This photo was originally published in the September 1974 issue ofVogue.
