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His unique way of mixing elements becomes apparent the moment you step into the entrance hall, which has an unlikely assortment of 20th-century art. It is dominated by a red painting by the contemporary English artist Rachel Howard. Beneath it is a console held up by two Sèvres porcelain ostriches, an amusing 1970 creation by the French artist François-Xavier Lalanne, a very un-D’co-like 1925 leather-and-wood armchair, a chandelier in the shape of an unfurled cloth by Man Ray and some art photographs, including a 1950 Irving Penn portrait of a Grange favorite, the French painter and set designer Christian B’rard. “I met Lalanne in 1968,” Grange explains. “And I knew about B’rard because he designed things for Jean-Michel Frank.” (The library has a famous B’rard triptych.)
Grange has been buying art for over 40 years. “I bought a Toulouse-Lautrec when I was 18,” he says. He has always haunted galleries and museums, and some of his clients (François Pinault, Ronald Lauder, Daryl and Steven Roth, and Debbie and Leon Black) are among today’s most serious art collectors.
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