AD July: Elizabeth Taylor

I love the way people talked about Elizabeth Taylor, and her home, in the latest issue of Architectural Digest...

"It was just a house house, not a showy house, and marvelously casual. Elizabeth's homes were always full of children, family, and animals."

"My grandmother liked having us around, knowing that we were living out lives. She was somebody we could gossip with about boyfriends and subjects we couldn't discuss with our parents."

"She lived with paintings by Pissaro, Degas, and Renoir, but wanted people to feel comfortable enough to spill a drink and not freak out."

"I remember when I met Elizabeth Taylor, in the '90s, she came downstairs in men's Chinese silk pajamas, sat on the couch and said, "It's really comfy here, isn't it?"

She sounds fantastic... even more so than I thought before...

xoxo