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There’s a scene in The First Wives Club (yes, the 1996 divorcée-revenge comedy) where Dame Maggie Smith’s character, New York society doyenne Gunilla Garson Goldberg, is advising Sarah Jessica Parker’s ingénue, Shelly Stewart, on the value of finding the perfect decorator. ‘See, your house is your calling card. It has to be perfected.’ And while in the film, this might be more for the purposes of deception than decor, the sentiment still holds true, both in the Big Apple and everywhere else.
This story is from the November 2020 edition of Condé Nast House & Garden.
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