Changing the status of a married lady to freedom, Francesca von Habsburg was not affected by dividing property. Beloved children were left with her, she did not have to abandon the royal surname, and with her ex -spouse, Archduke of Austrian Karl, she managed to maintain quite friendly relations. Yes, and before marriage, Francesca could not be called the “unprodant” – the father, the steel tycoon and Baron Hans Henrik Tissen -Boremis, awarded her with a delicate artistic taste and in addition to him – partly with his collection of paintings (the other part decorates the halls of the Madrid Museum of Tissen -Bornemis). Mother, an English fashion model, endowed her daughter with a spectacular appearance and a wonderful British pronunciation. But the paved life of a rich loafer is not about Francesca. As she herself admits – she has an anarchist soul since childhood. Obedience is not her virtue, the beaten path is not her path. At one time, throwing a Swiss private school, she ended up in the Bohemian London College. But there she lasted only two years, believing that freedom is more important for her.
The eighties of the last century, Francesca devoted to movements around the world-from London to New York, from there to Los Angeles, and violent novels. Stappling, she married, gave birth to children, lived again in Switzerland, and then in Austria. Having chosen the art sphere with her area of activity, she headed the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary exhibition hall.
The rebellious disposition of Frances was in no way affected by the acquisition of the title of Erzduzogini. It manifests itself in everything – including in the decoration of her Vienna apartment. It is located in a rich area, in a respectable house in the Baroque style (according to rumors, this house for several months was a refuge of Beethoven) – it would seem, a logical choice for a representative of the royal surname.
However, the interior of the apartment immediately and decisively destroys all stereotypes-here are samples of provocative contemporary art, a field of golden-based mini-function, and installation for a drummer. The triumphant pop art and futurism-the owner of such a house is easy to imagine a rock star, but not an aristocratic lady who became a mother three times. Francesca, without hiding pride, states that the design of her interior is completely her merit, and she simply cannot imagine that it is possible to dispose of the solution of such a question to the decorator. She is not able to take someone else’s look at the design of her house.
The advantages of such a solution are obvious – quarrels with architects and designers would not have gone to work. And, in addition, the main goal was franchis in creating an appropriate environment for works of art, and only then – a house for the family. For a galleryist with experience, this turned out to be a feasible task.
In the apartment, the area of which is 500 m², the neutral style of design is maintained as a whole: a combination of white walls, parquet floors, and Scandinavian style furniture.
This neutrality is designed only to shade the brightness and extravagance of art objects, under which individual rooms are allocated.
According to the mistress of the house, from the hit of her collection – desktop football made by Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, it is simply impossible to drive away guests. Any party ends with the fact that the emotional competition for a machine gun begins.
Only in the kitchen-dining room and a room for children’s playing the place of art is occupied by functional design. Here the owner of the apartment was inspired by futuristic interiors from the “Clothing Orange”, taken by Stanley Kubrick. Her choice, of course, belonged to bright colors. According to Francesch, “beige apartments are vulgar”. A bright personality in the design of his home manifests itself as bright.