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Eddie Lee’s apartment is a pure reflection of his colorful personality Photographs Patrick Cline
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hen Eddie Lee was a precocious ten-year-old with a passion for the world beyond his window and a keen eye for interior decorating, he tore apart his father’s treasured collection of National Geographics to create a very personal project. “I love traveling more than anything,” he says. “So I took every map out and wallpapered my room – walls and ceiling. It felt like I was living inside a globe – it was fabulous!” Dad was less impressed. His decorating technique is less primitive these days, but his love of the exotic is undimmed, and his W47th St apartment is home to an extensive collection of globes of all shapes and sizes. “I can just spin them and look at Brazil and fantasize about traveling there,” he smiles.
“I love reading, I love entertaining and movies, and art – this apartment is an expression of who I am.”
Opposite page: The open living space is built for sociability. This page (clockwise from top): His collection of ginger portraits; take a seat, there’s plenty room; Meet Eddie.
There’s also artwork from Morocco, a collection of marble obelisks and “grand tour” sculptures, photographs of hot redheads from London, a slightly frayed pommel horse from Connecticut … “It’s French, from the 1940s,” he says. “I thought, ‘I have no use for it,’ but it’s so cool.”
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