International Style, by Charles Gandee, was originally published in the August 1996 issue of Vogue.
In the first 21 weeks of this year, Annabelle Selldorf boarded 46 flights and flew 94,282 miles.
Contrary to what you may have deduced, Annabelle Selldorf is not a senior official at the State Department.
Nor an executive at Exxon.
“Do I have a boyfriend?”
“What are you trying to do?
Reduce me to tears?
I don’t even have a houseplant.”
“But what I get out of it is more interesting work.
You know, there are only so many opportunities in New York.”
Which enabled her return to Manhattanalas, the French boy had vanishedand enroll in architecture school at Pratt.
(Remember Calvin and Donna’s “monastic” phase?)
Selldorf eschewed shutters, dormers, latticework, and gingerbread trim in favor of a kind of Quaker simplicity.
“Naturally, I care about what the buildings look like,” she says.
In other words, she wants things to work."
And she’s gorgeous to boot."
