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.”