Revisit BritishVogue's April 2018 issue, when the supermodel invited readers into her antique-filled retreat.
Several years ago, Helena Christensen was taking delivery of some furniture, purchased from an antiques store near her Catskills home in upstate New York, when she noticed something else in the back of a van. Wasn’t that… a mermaid? She insisted the delivery guys unload the statue, an imposing 1940s Norwegian piece carved out of a single tree trunk, intended for another customer. “I looked at it and said, ‘OK, that is not going anywhere, I must have it.
The mermaid now presides over a cosy corner of the antiques-filled living room in this upstate bolthole, a two hour-long flit from Christensen’s apartment in Manhattan’s West Village. “I’m obsessed with mermaids: I would definitely choose to be a mermaid if I were given the offer,” the 48-year-old original supermodel says, only half-joking. “I’d happily give up my human existence.
The result is a heavily accessorised four-bedroom house that both conforms to Christensen’s homely modern tastes and also looks as though it has always been here. The original structure comprised a series of poky little rooms and had no central heating. Christensen conspired to open up the space to create a large kitchen that blends industrial modernism with the living room’s mid-century eclecticism .
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