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Ronnie Sassoon on the Selections That Shape Her Life—and Her Collection
Ronnie Sassoon has an eye for immersive design. Alongside her partner, film director James Crump, Sassoon has spent more than a decade restoring her historic homes, transforming them into time capsules steeped in the trappings of 1960s and ’70s-era Italian art and design. The collector and art historian’s expansive collection—which features era-defining midcentury furnishings by designers such as Carlo Scarpa and Frederick Kiesler, and works by Group Zero and Arte Povera artists including Lucio Fontana and Alighiero Boetti—is housed in three architecturally significant spaces: Richard Neutra’s Levit House in Beverly Hills, the historic Dean-Ceglic Loft in SoHo, and Marcel Breuer’s Stillman ll House in Litchfield, Connecticut. Last year, Sassoon published Selection, a compilation of arresting images of her formidable trove of art, architecture, and design pieces. Here, Sassoon takes a moment to reflect on her deliberate and meditative approach to building a collection.