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Have You Ever Had It Blue "The possession of beautiful things is thrilling to me,” - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. When the Duke and Duchess of Windsor where in Paris they lived at 4 Route du Champ d’Éntraînement. The edifice was originally designed as a summer home for famed urban planner Georges-Eugéne Haussmann back in the mid-1800s. It would become an event venue and a home for Charles de Gaulle - before coming under the Windsors' purview in 1952. The Duchess soon put her own stamp on the building with the help of Stéphane Boudin a legendary interior designer who would go on to help Jackie Kennedy with some rooms in the ‘White House’. He'd also assist with the renovation of the Duke and Duchess's home in the Parisian suburbs ‘Le Moulin de la Tuilerie’. At ‘Villa Windsor’ Boudin created a swirl of French and English aristocratic styles. Eighteenth-century panelling, ”Wallis blue" painted framed treasures like a Venetian Rococo console table and Japanese screen (purported to be a gift from Emperor Hirohito). Simpson also added her own touches, including copious sketches, photographs and portraits of her many pugs; pug-themed trinkets also abounded. When ‘Vogue’ photographer Horst P. Horst went to shoot the home in 1963, he seemed impressed most of all by its pristine condition. "It is hard to believe that there can ever have been an interior more surpassingly clean, where crystal was more genuinely scintillating and porcelain more luminous, or where wood and leather, polished to the consistency of precious stone, could more truthfully be said to shine.” It was in this environment that the Windsors hosted their famous dinner parties. The likes of Marlene Dietrich, Aristotle Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor and the Aga Khan all attended. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #dukeandduchessofwindsor #davidandwallis #wallissimpson #simpsonstyle #paris #interiordesign #stéphaneboudin #jansen #hermanschrijver #elsiedewolfe #johnmcmullin #chezwindsor #wallisblue (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAXSQi7gWGv/?igshid=6l75zwcvjy7q

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