1. Robert Denning was an American interior designer whose lush interpretations of French Victorian decor became an emblem of corporate raider tastes in the 1980s.
14 Facts About Robert Denning
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Robert Denning was just fifteen when he met Edgar de Evia who was the research assistant to Dr Guy Beckley Stearns and would go on to become a noted photographer.
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Robert Denning became a testing subject for this homeopathic medical research and when his parents and younger brother moved to Florida, he stayed in New York City living with de Evia and his mother Miirrha Alhambra.
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Robert Denning was one of several design leaders raised in the Jewish community in the Bronx, along with Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren.
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Robert Denning kept the fragrance Sous Le Vent in his automobiles to remind him of Lillian Bostwick Phipps who always wore the scent.
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Boyish, down-to-earth Robert Denning is the hardest worker, while Fourcade sniffs the client air to gauge if it's socially registered before he goes beyond the fringe.
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Robert Denning designed Jason Epstein's SoHo home from scratch in the shell of the building that housed the first consolidated New York police department.
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Fourcade and Robert Denning shared a red brick mansion on East 73d Street in Manhattan and a house they built in Bridgehampton, Long Island; both houses were the subjects of articles in decorating magazines around the world.
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Robert Denning 'reinvented' himself to use his own word, after Vincent Fourcade's death from AIDS in 1992.
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Robert Denning's jobs have appeared not only in AD's pages, but those of every major magazine with home interiors.
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Robert Denning always participated in charity benefits such as the auction to benefit Friends In Deed, a counseling organization for people with AIDS and cancer to decorating the main foyer of the von Stade mansion to benefit Southampton's Rogers Memorial Library.
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Robert Denning was one of the decorators that contributed to the restoration of the 1932,50 room mansion, of William Goadby Loew for the Smithers Alcoholism Treatment and Training Center on Manhattan's upper East side.
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Robert Denning was content in the familiar surroundings of his home and offices in the Lombardy Hotel in New York City, where both the lobby and restaurant were of his design.
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Robert Denning died in his apartment in New York City in 2005.