{"id":42954,"date":"2015-09-28T02:14:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T02:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42954"},"modified":"2015-09-28T02:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T02:14:50","slug":"the-fabulous-world-of-harumi-klossowska-de-rola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42954","title":{"rendered":"The Fabulous World of Harumi Klossowska de Rola"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fabulous World of Harumi Klossowska de Rola<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times Magazine<\/a>
\n2015-09-22<\/p>\n

Hilary Moss<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\u201cBeno\u00eet, my partner, took this photo in 2013 in front of the Grand Chalet<\/a>, which was a hotel until my father bought it. It is still loaded with thousands of books and even old skis from English clients. My mom has her studio there, Beno\u00eet has his studio, I have my own studio. It\u2019s almost like apartments in a city \u2014 you can hear everyone\u2019s muffled footsteps.\u201d Credit: Beno\u00eet Peverelli<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Balthus\u2019s<\/a> jewelry-designing daughter reflects on her ethereal life in a historic Swiss chalet<\/a> \u2014 and on memories of a singular childhood.<\/em><\/p>\n

HARUMI KLOSSOWSKA DE ROLA\u2019S<\/a> first home was the massive Renaissance Villa Medici<\/a> at the edge of the Borghese gardens<\/a>, residence of the French Academy in Rome<\/a>, which was run throughout the 1960s and much of the 1970s by her father, the painter Balthazar Klossowski de Rola<\/a>, known as Balthus. Klossowska, now in her 40s, scoured the grounds for treasures such as pale pink stones and bits of blue-green glass from mosaics to show him. Later, she found that he had kept them all, close, in his bedside top drawer.<\/p>\n

Such moments shaped the playful, Zen, otherworldly aesthetic of the designer, who conceives high jewelry pieces for Chopard<\/a> and Boucheron<\/a> and for her own line. After Balthus\u2019s stint at the Academy ended when she was 5, the family home became the Grand Chalet in Rossini\u00e8re, Switzerland<\/a>, built in the mid-1700s, one of the largest wooden residential structures in Europe. She lives and works there still, with her partner, the photographer Beno\u00eet Peverelli<\/a>, and their two children, as well as her mother, the Japanese-born painter Setsuko Klossowska de Rola<\/a>, who was 34 years Balthus\u2019s junior. They spend time as well at Castello de Montecalvello<\/a>, a medieval Italian castle that her father bought in 1967, where a half-brother, Stanislas, lives…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fabulous World of Harumi Klossowska de Rola The New York Times Magazine 2015-09-22 Hilary Moss \u201cBeno\u00eet, my partner, took this photo in 2013 in front of the Grand Chalet, which was a hotel until my father bought it. It is still loaded with thousands of books and even old skis from English clients. My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,1245,28,8],"tags":[21223,21224,21221,21222,21220,2640,8894,2327,13109],"class_list":["post-42954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-biography","category-europe","category-media-archive","tag-balthazar-klossowski-de-rola","tag-balthus","tag-benoit-peverelli","tag-harumi-klossowska-de-rola","tag-hilary-moss","tag-new-york-times","tag-new-york-times-magazine","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42955,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42954\/revisions\/42955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}