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(Photo: Dean Kaufman) |
The Study
1. The Colors
Sanchez chose
“very natural, Mediterranean colors, the color
of antiquity. And the houses in the Mediterranean are bordered in
white and the
blue sky.”
2. The Wall Decoration
The plates surrounding the Venetian mirror
are Delft and belonged to Sanchez’s mother. They had a more formal life—displayed
on stands—in his childhood home. Below them are some “knickknacks,” like a seventeenth-century Christ
in ivory.
3. The Krishna
The Hindu god
sits on a Moroccan table from
the forties, which
“looks very
Colonial to me.”
4. The Bookcase
The pyramid shelving system was made by Alexis de la Falaise, son of Maxime and brother of Loulou, and is
a masterpiece
of mathematics and engineering, at least according to other architects who have seen it. There
is an Indian god on top, a gift.
“It seemed to fit perfectly well there. I worship this pyramid. Besides the beauty of it, it
has sentimental relations.”
5. His Floor Library
Sanchez has reading binges: “I go through historical trips, certain periods of time, and then
I go through a jewelry trip and so
I have every book
on jewelry I can find. Then I have
a Diaghilev-Nijinsky-Cocteau corner. It depends where the head is.” When not reading
in his apartment, Sanchez likes
the fact that
a walk through
its more than 5,000 square feet can double as exercise.
6. The Sleigh Bed
It’s from Jacques Grange and is a copy of an eighteenth-century-style bed done for Florence Gould by Jean-Michel Frank.

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