Ahmet and Mica Ertegun are comets in the peopled New York sky.
And now, a slice of it is now up for auction at Christies.
This was one of many of Erteguns homes that would get theVoguetreatment.
Photographed by Eric Boman,Vogue, December 1991
Erteguns tastes were more than celebratedthey were sought after.
I started going to galleries and collecting because of necessityall those white walls!
Now it is a major passion.
Mica Ertegun, seated on a table in her New York, wearing a magenta bolero jacket ornamented with gold coins over a pink turtleneck and pantaloons by Adolfo. Hair by Marc Sinclaire.
By then, Micas appreciation of art had clearly evolved.
Its a classicand anyway, I cant see it from my bed.
In Micas interiors, youll find a masterclass on how to live with art.
The living room of Mica Ertegun’s New York townhouse. Jack Youngerman’s 1967 paintingAugust Whitefills most of the wall over a French bureau table on a blue and white Persian rug. Arrayed on the table are a wicker basket filled with ostrich eggs, and a Victorian glass doorstop, and a flower arrangement in a large basket.
The dining room of Ahmet Ertegun and socialite Mica Ertegun’s New York townhouse. An 18th-century Italian banquet table sits on a floor of black slate tiles, surrounded by leather and steel chairs by Laverne. On the wall above a narrow sideboard is Rene Magritte’s 1960 painting “La Cour d’Amour”.
La cour d’amour,1960 by René Magritte
A pair of 20th-century blue-and-whiteJapanese jars.
A corner of Mica Ertegen’s bedroom in her New York townhouse with a Chinese leather screen, a raffia-covered television, and dressers.
