Helena Christensen At Her Catskills Retreat for Sunday Times Style May 31, 2020

Supermodel Helena Christensen photographs herself at home in her precious Catskills retreat. She has been isolating there with her 20-year-old son, Mingus, and close friend and business partner Camilla Staerk. Jane McFarland interviews Helena for London’s Sunday Times Style May 31, 2020.

“I always say that I have been like Pippi Longstocking grown up because my homes look exactly like her house,” she laughs, during [their] transatlantic phone call. “She was a kid living in a crazy-peculiar home with a lot of strange objects, and I have always been searching for that.” Her stylish “valley cottage” is certainly not a carefully curated set-up. Christensen credits her ad hoc approach and the rustic but refined interior design to her dual heritage (her father is Danish, her mother Peruvian) and a lifelong passion for collecting. “I don’t even know how to name this aesthetic,” she says. “I love a mix of real, old-school antiques, but also 1950s Danish modernism that is elegant with a classic feel. I also love the colonial style of the American South, so it’s a very eclectic mix. A lot of different styles, but somehow it works by it not working.”