Very long time she was the muse of Valentino

Georgina Brandolini fled the snobbish like the plague. Aristocrat by birth and by her marriage to a nephew of Gianni Agnelli, the comte Ruy Brandolini, she prefers to cultivate the discretion, even if sparing released details on its origins. It almost insist that it evokes the famous father, prince Faucigny-Lucinge, which made her a Princess. Home, in his bedroom décor canvas of Jouy, an impressive family tree, the Golden frame shows alone of this illustrious family whose origins date back to the 11th century. Diplomat, writer, Jean-Louis Faucigny-Lucinge was close to the artists and the social. He was the friend of Jean Cocteau, El Salvador Dalí, the Italian jeweller Fulco di Verdura, dancers Rudolf Noureiev and Margot Fonteyne, conductor Herbert von Karajan. Georgina Brandolini evokes his childhood with nostalgia: "I was too young to realize the privilege that I had with these people." I remember the wife of Dalí, the divine Gala, which was both funny, original and simple. "A model.

The memory of the father lives in this Parisian duplex of the 7th arrondissement, where Georgina lives surrounded by objects of art and antique furniture that, for many, come it from him. By his mother, a beautiful name Silva Regis de Oliveira Brazilian, it also inherited the taste of laughter and day. Although little living in Rio de Janeiro, his hometown, it maintains strong links with the Brazil and take two to three times per year from his apartment to Ipanema to the minimalist and white décor.

Nothing of this kind in Paris. The light remains paramount in parts on the Green, but it takes effect in a more conventional framework in mind very "left bank". Little evocations of the Brazil, therefore, between the Parisian walls, if these beautiful lucky, in the form of fish, hand, instrument music or fruit, offered by his grandmother and that adorn the salon door handles. And then there is this beautiful portrait oil of Pedro I, one of his ancestors, that hovers in the dining room. In 1822, he was appointed to "constitutional Emperor" of the Brazil at the age of 24, when the Portugal granted independence to its most beautiful colony. Grandfather in habit of pageantry nearby with an acrylic on canvas high in colours and enhanced signed by the Congolese artist Cheri Samba, sequins figure emblematic of contemporary African art. This attachment to the devil - which condemns one of the access doors to the room - delights Georgina Brandolini, who loves the overlapping of styles. This disrupts just what needs to be the wise decor of the dining room furnished of mahogany and tense fabric Braquenié in florets. "It's more gay!" launches Georgina Brazilian who is the absolute criterion.

It has built the site itself. "I am pleased to take care of the decoration", indicates that fleas used has the chance to benefit from the advice of his friends decorators Jacques Grange or Alberto Pinto. Barely crossed the threshold of the apartment, found that contemporary art is occupies a prominent place. The stairwell is occupied lower top by a single facility through posters of highly rated Damien Hirst. A silhouette metal sculpture of another English artist, Antony Gormley, stands near a dresser Louis XV. In the living room, on the beautiful woodwork, the female faces of the American painter Alex Katz not dropping you not gaze.

Regardless of the hierarchy

Georgina is married since 1974 to Ruy Brandolini. This native of Venice has a passion for art, as his illustrious uncle. He shared it with his wife, who said more impulsive in his choices. "I work at the blow of heart," she said. Such was the case for Cheri Samba, whose work exposed in 2004 at the Cartier Foundation it offer. Same excitement for the canvas of a kenyan artist whose vibrant colours illuminate the kitchen. Large and small masters, ancient and modern coexist regardless of hierarchy. "It is an eclectic House where all mixes: family photos, memories, objects of art and curiosity", summarizes front of the beautiful and unusual Russian money as torque boxes collects long. "They were offered as a gift for service rendered to the soldiers at the end of a war or a career, which explains that they are covered of badges or various evidence."

Another subject of interest: Chinese art, and particularly bronze bells dating back to 2,000 BC. The couple has of beautiful copies, which resemble vases to swollen paunch aeruginosa color. Two of these bells were placed on the large coffee table in the living room, work of the Argentine creator Marcial Berro, a friend of Georgina. He is also her bed, inspired by a climbing Liana.

The lounge is the heart of the apartment. In this bright room, she loves "farnienter", nestled in its large white sofas which, in his eyes, embody the ultimate in comfort. This notion that it is expensive. Its interior is in his own image, chic and relaxed. It is also the spirit of its mode. Since 2003, the name of Georgina Brandolini is indeed attached to a small line of clothing into valuable mesh it draws and publishes the Brazil, the Japan and the United States. And just recently in France with the opening of a Parisian microboutique, boulevard Raspail. To wear with jeans or a dress, its fine knitted sexy and elegant play the card of the ultraféminin, with addition of lace, hairnets or muslin. An adventure in which it launched for to prove that she was able to carry out a project. As Georgina Brandolini has 30 years of fashion behind it. So the experience. Very long time, she was the muse of Valentino. It has assisted this star of glamour-chic in dealing with its public relations international. They remain very related. "This is my father pushed me to work in fashion because I was not very attracted by the studies." I started at Dior, with Marc Bohan, who was a friend of the family. "From the 1990s, Georgina Brandolini attends Oscar de la Renta, then Director artistic of the House of Pierre Balmain, until his departure in 2002. "Fashion is also cruel and superficial that fascinating and funny", parses at the end of this long journey. It is a ruthless universe with which she learned to take his distance. The great danger is that "fashion become your life," said. Georgina Brandolini, while she loves her work, has successfully avoided this pitfall. His home reflects that it has many other passions which it knows grant time and fun.