I'm looking at can't I'm looking at Nabokov total works of evil in war.

I mean that's calm.

The man of everything.

Hello vogue, my name is Amanda Hollick and one of Carl's dearest friends and I'm here today to take you on a very, very special tour of his house outside paris.

So why don't you follow me?

Mm hmm.

Here we are in the entrance hall of Carl's house.

He always called it the villa outside paris or the Villa Lucienne, like his last couture collection.

He put everything into this last house that he really, really loved.

He always called this house a real version of himself.

I mean carl created these spaces which made you feel like the best possible version of yourself and Carl just did that.

This is the dining room.

Car was a brilliant host.

He loved the idea that the house would be full of friends and that he would have dinner's here and everybody would spend the night.

Carl really loved these chandeliers and he has several here in this villa for me, this is like a couture dress.

I think they're astonishing.

It's also like a piece of jewelry.

Both things that car really, really adored, looks like a jellyfish.

I mean a jellyfish skirt.

It's also very good.

So here we are in the sitting room pa was about as varied as his house is his world, his interiors, his very eclectic likes and dislikes.

So you've got the intellectual side and the television.

Carl loved to watch the news.

So when we had dinner the news was on all the time and literally there for three hours and we would have the same strap lines going underneath the breaking news.

But he also liked to watch dancing with the stars because being a champion ballroom dancer in his youth.

He also really, I really loved silent movies.

So you have dr mom booze or you have the cabinet of dr caligari all of which is very much in this house and something else I'd like to show you is this wonderful Bruno paul furniture which car was obsessed by re upholstered in Karl's fabulous colors.

This sort of german expressionist blue bruna paul was an architect as well as a furniture designer.

I think Carl would love to have been an architect and he really, I think he would have loved to have designed houses and here we are in the music room or should I say the swim a room because Carl adored their furniture and all their designs.

We have the suma piano.

He always used to tell a story that he wanted to play the piano but his mother said he had such ugly hands that he wasn't gonna be allowed.

And also the idea of him practicing would drive her insane.

I mean she was a very brilliant violinist and a child I think possibly playing the wrong notes or something would be intolerable.

It's quite bad har loved the shape of pianos and even though he really wanted to play them, he loved listening to piano music, I think he really wanted the music room to be a place where there could be concerts.

I've just remembered Steinway asked him to redesign the Steinway grand, which he did.

It was extraordinary.

Black and lacquer red and was used for photographs.

And then after about a year it was used as a bar where people put their drinks down and I said to Carl, was he going to give it to conservatives who are, for example, he didn't say anything, the piano disappeared.

And then one fine easter morning, his two lovely furniture removers turned up at my house and there was the grand piano, which is the most wonderful, wonderful present I could ever ever receive.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, inspiring, incredible.

Life is so dull otherwise.

And now I want to take you to a very, very special room.

Follow me, this is I think Carl's recreation of his childhood room.

But what's really important in this room is the Menzel here is the copy of the painting actually by Menzel of King Frederick having lunch with Voltaire.

And this really set carl on his journey towards recreating an 18th century intellectual extraordinary way of life.

I mean, if anybody had a Versailles complex, it was carl and it's interesting that he kept this painting which he saw as a 10 year old I think and wanted for christmas, it's so furious that his parents couldn't get it.

But I think they went back into Hamburg to buy it on christmas eve or something.

But I love the idea that this child as precocious sophisticated child stood and saw this painting through the window of the shop and thought that's how I want to live.

So follow me and I'll take you upstairs.

Okay, coming.

So here we are in carl's, this is Carl's floor, this is totally carl space.

Everybody knows Carl loved books.

He was a book aholic, a bubbly oh file, a paper freak, an ink vampire.

He had book fiends, finding books for him all over the world and everything about books including their contents.

Um Carl adored, he lived in in this paper world and he surrounded himself yes with these installations of books, but he knew where every single book was, even though it looked like total chaos, it's like a gift that he could see the abstract x ray of things.

Almost like the essence of things.

Just as his homes were flawlessly decorated.

He himself was flawless.

I mean God knows how long it took him to get dressed, which might account for him being a bit late sometimes, but every single detail as to the width of the tie or the collage of bell parent that would appear on the actual tie itself down to his mittens, his fingerless gloves that he had made by course in paris meant that he could somehow recede behind it.

He could be this other person, this private person and he's got this perfect uniform to present the world always.

He sometimes called himself the dolly and he said that he was really pleased with the Dalai, this animal, this other person.

That was not him at all, but just how he would like to present himself to the world.

Because as he was reproduced or the Donny was reproduced in teddy bears.

You have a Steiff teddy bear, Kendall or these toki duckies actually.

It looked very like him.

Call the candle.

So follow me And let's see where Carl sketched.

This is where Carl would sketch.

He would sketch really fast, really brilliantly.

I mean that is the discipline of say, a musician or a cabinet maker.

I mean carl sketched all the time, night and day, the huge wastepaper bins everywhere because he would throw away as much as he kept.

He used the shame aura eyeshadow actually for colors and I can just remember any idea would come out as a visual and just throw it, throw it across the room.

And he also collected a lot of desks.

And this is a, this is one of his favorite Tzekel desks.

He was just obsessed with great design.

It would make him really happy and would also tap into collections, jewelry, accessories himself.

That's what was so exciting about cole.

He just never stopped looking and responding and learning and trance figuring and transforming.

Thank you vogue for being with us on this very special visit to Carl's house outside Paris, and I know Carl is very amused by my Complete lack of historical knowledge, and if Carl was here today, he'd be so happy to see everybody and he'd be wanting everybody to be enjoying the house just as he always hoped he would do so.

Thank you.

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