TO Reinaldo Herrerawho died at 91 years of age at his home in Manhattan, luxury comes from cradle. He Carolina Herrera fashion designer husband – his married last name – he was born and grew up within an Venezuelan aristocratic family resident in New York, the city in which he fed the fortune he shares with his wife, valued in more than more than 100 million euros. Unlike other entrepreneurs, such as the founder of Mango, Isak Andic, in the material heritage of Reinaldo Herrera do not highlight luxury cars or private planes, but, faithful to the style of New York fortunes, is his home in Manhattan and his Art collection The most economically valued.
The world of fashion and the New York society chronicle staggered this week with the announcement of the death of Reinaldo Herrera, made public with a message on social networks by Titina Penzini, a figure close to the fashion editor and designer Carolina Herrera.
Although it was his fashion career, played in Vanity Fair magazine, which made him popular, Reinaldo Herrera He was born in an opulent atmosphere Economic. He did it in Venezuela in 1933, the result of the marriage formed by Mimi Guevara Pietrantoni, writer and translator, and Reinaldo Herrera Uslar, Marqués de Torres Casasnoble title granted by Felipe V in 1722 to the Campo Master Don Andrés Urbina y Landaeta – he had the title in the 90s for not having had male children: the couple had two daughters, Carolina Adriana and Patricia Cristina, who joined Mercedes and Ana Luisa, daughters of the first marriage of the fashion designer.
During his time in his native country, Reinaldo Herrera grew up in the Hacienda de la Vegathe family residence in Caracas, a complex of the year 1590 that has 65 rooms. The space, still standing, is rented for events.
Already in New York, reign Herrera grew in the family mansion of the Upper East Sideand in 1968, four after the divorce of Carolina Herrera and Guillermo Behrens Tello, he married what his wife was throughout his life, the prestigious and popular fashion designer Carolina Herrera.
Together, she from her facet as a creator, and he as editor of the list of women best dressed – (International Best Dressed List, Ibdl) -, which included precisely his wife back in 1971, watered the fortune they have, supported by the success of all products – not only fashion, also perfumes – of Carolina Herrera, whose first parade in the city of the skyscrapers took place in 1981. Reinaldo, in addition, was responsible for the special projects of his magazine, so that between his origin and his professional work He always surrounded himself with the eliteboth American and European.
Carolina Herrera and Reinaldo Herrera
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The luxury mansion in Manhattan
Housing in Manhattan de Reinaldo and Carolina Herrera It is the great “safe” that keeps the fortune of marriage. At least, its most sentimental part: the one that makes up the house in which they have resided for almost half a century, and its art collection, which includes paintings by Dalí and Warhol.
The couple acquired one of those typical Luxury Houses of Manhattan, known as ‘Browstone’ for the unmistakable exterior appearance: a low -brick -brick attached house, built between the nineteenth and twentieth century, with a style with neoclassical reminiscencelike that of the balustrade staircase through which it is accessed, and its large windows arched at ground level.
On the outside, since the land on which they rise is usually narrow, they do not have an appearance of being especially large homes, but most are authentic luxury mansions. And although There are hardly any documentation from the House of Marriage Herrerathere is no doubt that yours is.
Few photographers have had the privilege of portraying the interior of the New York mansion of Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera. As happened with the Casa de Campo in Switzerland in which Audrey Hepburn lived during the second part of his life, an American fashion magazine could visit her, Instyle, in 2014.
That report photographic allows us to know that the luxury house of marriage seems like a Decorative Arts Museumand at the same time a pinacoteca, since the paintings are perhaps the most valuable of all the recharged decoration of the house, where the colorful walls and the classic furniture are protagonists.
Family photographs are not lacking in the house, including some portraits of the famous photographer Robert Mapplethorpebut they are the paintings that decorate the walls of the house the most striking of the fortune left by Reinaldo Herrera: not everyone can receive the Kennedy family, the Reagan marriage or European Royals such as Princess Margarita of England and the Infanta Elena in a private home that has a portrait of her father signed by Dalí or a portrait of her wife made by Andy Warhol.
Warhol, Dalí and other paintings from the Herrera collection
In the walls of the different stays of the ‘Browstone’ of Manhattan de Carolina and reign Herrera hang furniture and paintings that could be in the most important museums in the world.
For example, those who visit luxury home can contemplate 17th century paintings of the Dutch artist Jan Hackert or Italian chairs of the 18th century.
But in the house is also very present, in that eclecticism of the historical time that Reinaldo Herrera lived and his wife, Carolina, the Andy Warhol art.
As the painter’s foundation explains, the marriage met Andy Warhol in the late 1970s, before she launched her clothing firm – at the beginning of the 80s, as we have mentioned above – and before even living in New York.
«One night, at a dinner in 1979, Warhol proposed an exchange. He had admired a gold mesh and diamond mine of Van Cleef & Arpels that Herrera carried. ‘Andy took it and played with him all night. When he returned it, he said: ‘If you give it to me, I will give you your portrait in return.’ I said: ‘Take it, it’s yours.’ And that was all, ”says the Warhol Foundation on the origin of the RCarolina Herrera Etrato painted by Warhol.
Actually, according to this official source, there were four portraits that Andy Warhol painted Carolina Herrera in the late 70s. He did it after taking 60 images with a polaroid during a session with the designer. “He selected a front pose that included his Gibson hairstyle and his emerald earrings,” says the Warhol Foundation.
In this Instagram post of the painter’s own foundation you can see images of the designer taken by Warhol and her two best known portraits: both in large format (1 meter x 1 meter), are acrylic and serigraphic ink about linen and date from 1979.
But the relationship with the painting of Marriage Herrera is prior to his link with Andy Warhol. Even before the Venezuelan couple’s own link. The test keeps her in her catalogs The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation: A portrait of the father of Reinaldo Herrera, the Marquis de Torre Casa, who painted Salvador Dalí in 1959.
Between paintings and luxury decoration, in the heart of Manhattan, two of the most important figures in the contemporary history of American fashion: Carolina Herrera and her recently deceased husband, Reinaldo Herrera, developed their family life.
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