Billy Baldwin
Decorator to American café society
Mid-Century · 1935–1983 · New York, NY
Signature styles
- Tailored
- Mid-Century Modern
- Editorial
Profile
Billy Baldwin decorated for Cole Porter, Jacqueline Kennedy, Diana Vreeland, and Bunny Mellon. He preached editing — "be faithful to your own taste, no one will ever like what you do unless you do it yourself" — and is credited with making the brown lacquered library a permanent fixture of the Manhattan apartment.
Visual language
Brown-lacquer libraries, brass étagères, slipper chairs, plain off-white walls.
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