5/10/2023 0 Comments House by Frank E. Peretti![]() ![]() She also studied interior design in Rome and worked with an architect in Milan before moving to Spain in 1964, where she mingled with Salvador Dali, and “was an intimate,” as Vogue’s Joan Juliet Buck reported, “of la gauche divine, the divine left-intellectuals opposed to Franco.” ![]() ![]() Set adrift financially, Peretti supported herself by teaching Italian and skiing at her former finishing school. “I am a major adult and free, and I decide to live a life,” she wrote to her father. I was doing all those things, all the time, all the time.” In 1961, aged 21, she finally broke out. “The kind of romantic who decided to become an architect after falling hopelessly in love with Italian columns.” Peretti was raised in Rome in a Renaissance palazzo that seems, over time, to have become something of a golden cage.Ī restless teenager, Peretti told the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, “I was escaping from my house, at the seaside, when I was 15, just to run, at one o’clock in the morning, to watch the sea and watch the moon. “She was a ‘fantastic’ little girl, polite, diligent,” reported The Miami Herald in 1973. The Girl in the Gilded Cage Elsa Peretti, the second daughter of an oil magnate and an artistic mother, was born in 1940 in Florence, Italy. Photographed by Deborah Turbeville, Vogue, February 1975 Halston, at home, with Betsy Theodoracopulos (seated) and Elsa Peretti, both wearing his designs. ![]()
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