(her personal highlight), Oprah Winfrey and gazing at the Walker Tower opposite, which is Judy Garland, for the latter she won an Emmy considered the city’s first Art Deco skyscraper in 2004. ‘I’m most proud of the way it respects and has been renovated into luxury condos. her extraordinary talent rather than seeing her ‘Everything else disappears and it looks like as a tragic victim,’ she says, of the documentary Superman is going to climb up the building,’ she about Garland. One of her more recent projects smiles. ‘Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are is Garbage Dreams about the lives of rubbish moving in there. If we went back in time and collectors in Egypt ‘You spend a long time looking I was told that, I would have said, “No way”’, at footage, but to go through 500 hours and find she chuckles. 75 minutes which make the story, that feels What is her next chapter? ‘I might have an great,’ she reflects on her career. underground restaurant where people dine at The only place we have yet to explore is the your house every couple of weeks,’ says Kate. sun-drenched terrace, so we venture out into ‘It’s a way of challenging your cooking skills.’ the heat. ‘I’m lucky to have this space, so my In the meantime, it’s back to Kate’s roots in house has always been a venue for all my friends’ Aspen for the summer. ‘I’m very imprinted by celebrations,’ she says, weaving her way through the landscape of my childhood and I think it the hydrangeas. ‘I know how to cook, I have 80 stays with you,’ she says, running her fingers wine glasses in my basement; I’m ready for it!’. along yellow birch leaves, made from paper, The scent of mint wafts from the herb garden and which are from Colorado. ‘I go back every year Kate confirms that one or two mojitos have been to remember the landscape.’ How would she sipped under the stars. There is also rosemary, describe it to someone who has never visited? lavender, basil and rose geranium. ‘I like to make ‘Aspen is about the mountains that surround an olive oil cake and I line the pan with the rose you,’ she muses. ‘There is a very high, hardgeranium leaves, so the cake is subtly scented,’ to-hike mountain passage that I love and it’s she explains. just beautiful.’ We pause under a parasol decorated with fairy lights. ‘It’s magical at night’, says Kate, THE SALON
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