FAREWELL, PAUL FORTUNE, INTERIORS GURU !
This week we said goodbye to a true California great, interior designer Paul Fortune, who passed away on Monday, June 15. He was a favorite of the fashion and society sets, designing their sprawling homes (Mick Jagger, Sofia Coppola, Marc Jacobs...) in Bel Air, San Francisco, Paris, New York with his signature style.
Paul was the mind behind such institutions as the Fake Club (a Hollywood “it” scene in the 1980s) and the new look of Tower Bar at the Sunset Tower Hotel, helping to revive the Sunset Boulevard property into arguably L.A.’s most stylish address.
Mr. Fortune at his Laurel Canyon house in 2012, a year before he sold it, Credit: Kevin Scanlon for The New York Times,
Manhattan home of Charlotte Ronson and Nate Ruess, in collaboration with Gachot Studios, Photo William Abranowicz,
Marc Jacobs’s Greenwich Village home, along with John Gachot and Thad Hayes, Photo Francois Halard,
Paul Fortune and Chris Brock Spartan Trailer, Ojai, California,
Paul Fortune and Chris Brock’s Laurel Canyon House Master Bedroom,
Wilt Chamberlain's Estate, Bel Air, Photo by Jason Schmidt,
Berkshires for Holly and Eric Montgomery. Credit...William Abranowicz
Home in the Berkshires for Holly and Eric Montgomery, Credit: William Abranowicz,
The home of Charlotte Ronson and Nate Ruess in Lower Manhattan, Credit.: William Abranowicz,
Marc Jacobs's Paris apartment