The "Turquerie" room of socialite Lee Radziwill's home in London, designed by Italian architect Renzo Mongiardino. The walls are papered in a dense red-and-gold persian motif, and the windows are draped to match. Above the baroque-carved fireplace is an 18th-Century portrait by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun of Princess Louse of Prussia (an ancestor of Lee Radziwill's husband from 1959 to 1974, Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwill). On a low table in front of the fireplace is an 18th Dynasty Egyptian stone head of Sekhmet. An oval mirror in a gilt frame hangs over a semicircular 18th-Century gilded wood side table with a marble top. 18th-Century Chinoiserie watercolors by George Chinnery hang in black lacquered frames on every wall. Lee Radziwill, wearing a gilded white caftan given to her by the King of Morocco, sits in a sofa upholstered in orange embroidered fabric. On a matching armchair across from her is her son, Antony Radziwill.
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