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Byline: William Norwich
Unless one of her children dashes into her immaculate white bedroom while she is still sleeping, the first face Alexandra von Furstenberg sees when she wakes up every morning in her California dream house is Marilyn Monroe's-red-framed in a panel about six feet high, with the word fear streaming down it, a work by the artist Barbara Kruger. Next to Marilyn, a fireplace is filled with diamonds (faceted glass the size of grapefruits bought at the Los Angeles Mart) on black boxes-the same treatment as in the living-room fireplace downstairs-with sleek mantels made of Snow White, a synthetic stone that Alexandra found at a quarry in the ...