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california dreaming; After a few challenging years in London, Alexandra von Furstenberg has embraced a sun-drenched white clapboard home-and a new life.(Interview)

Vogue

| May 01, 2007 | Norwich, William | COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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