Domestic Harmony

摘要

Caroline Sarkozy and Jacques Lacoste crossed swords long before they fell in love and moved in together. It was at a Paris auction sale, and the two found themselves in a bidding war over a pair of Jean Royère firedogs. Sarkozy (half sister of former French president Nicolas) was bidding for a client-she had spent ten years working with Andrée Putman before starting her own interior design firm. Lacoste ran-and still runs-his own Paris gallery specializing in midcentury-modern furniture, and he knows as much about Royère as anyone alive (his exhaustive monograph on the designer-co-edited with fellow gallery owner Patrick Seguin-was published five years ago).