Bringing Down the House
An All-Nighter Chez Newson
Industrial designer Marc Newson and his fashion stylist wife, Charlotte Stockdale, opened up their London house last night to art and fashion world types in town for Frieze for a celebration of T magazine's Anglomaniacs issue. "I love fairs like this," said Angela Missoni, who brought children Teresa and Francesco in from Milan. "They reinvigorate me and my work." The evening's host, Nadja Swarovski, admitted she hadn't made it to Frieze yet—"but I figured I would be getting some good art in tonight." Yes and no, as it turned out. The Newsons' pad has some standout furniture, but the walls were virtually empty. "We like the house good and minimalist!" Stockdale explained, dismissing the explanation that she might have wanted to keep stuff from walking off with so many strangers coming and going. It wasn't a ridiculous suggestion: Anouck Lepère said she might be tempted to steal something really good, and the London DJ Princess Julia admitted, "Yeah, I peek in the closets and in the drawers when nobody's looking. But I wouldn't take anything." Such is the risk of entertaining at home. That, and a little uncontrolled late-night debauchery. With the bar drained, things got a bit kinky chez Newson. Let's just say the most G-rated part was Gareth Pugh giving Katie Grand a whipping outside the marble bathroom.
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