Villa Cagni Troubetzkoy on Lake Como in Italy.
Photo: Khanh Renaud
Editor in Chief Jacqueline Terrebonne Shares Highlights from Galerie’s Collectors 2024 Issue
This special edition spotlights extraordinary collections and the people behind them as well as exceptional homes from Lake Como to Los Angeles
Have you ever asked an ardent collector about their collection? It’s the most incredible experience: Their face lights up. They start talking. And usually, they can’t stop. It’s precisely that kind of enthusiasm and joy that fills every page of our Collectors issue. Our editors have assembled a major portfolio of just these types of people with a concentration on ones who like to go deep. From architect Peter Marino and his obsession with Les Lalanne sculptures to artist Vik Muniz and his fascination with African masks, these luminaries have a singular focus that invigorates them.
African masks at Vik Muniz’s home in Salvador, Brazil. Photo: Marcio Lima
For those who may not have already found that special something they can’t get enough of, we’ve assembled a plethora of stories that might spark a new fixation. For example, there’s the Lady Arpels Brise d’Été watch, an absolute marvel from the Van Cleef & Arpels Poetic Complications series, with hand-painted enamel flower petals that gently flutter. We also look at why Surrealist paintings are having a big moment both at auction and in museums right now. And for those wanting to adopt a passion with limitless possibilities, we take a trip to Louis Vuitton’s long-standing atelier outside Paris, where every type of trunk imaginable is made by expert craftsmen using some of the same techniques from hundreds of years ago.
Jacqueline Terrebonne. Photo: MATTHEW BORKOWSKI/BFA
But what a true collector needs more than anything might be a spectacular home to showcase all his treasures. In our cover story, designer Ernest de la Torre conceived exactly that for wealth adviser Todd Morgan and utilized the arresting canvases and sculptures in his trove as both influence for the palette and permission to be fearless with the interiors. On Lake Como in Italy, Villa Cagni Troubetzkoy is a work of art unto itself—the product of a decade-long restoration by skilled and highly specialized artisans. And the home of designers Timothy Roberts and Kevin Haynes demonstrates one doesn’t need to be a maximalist to prove their collecting chops.
Villa Cagni Troubetzkoy on Lake Como in Italy. Photo: Khanh Renaud
The art-filled, Los Angeles home of Todd Morgan, designed by Ernest de la Torre. Photo: Peter Murdock; Styled by Anita Sarsidi
Each of these stories gives a very personal look at not only the collectors but also the makers who dedicate their lives to creating things worth collecting. I hope you find them all equally inspiring.
A version of this article first appeared in print in our 2024 Collectors Issue. Subscribe to the magazine.
Cover: Villa Cagni Troubetzkoy on Lake Como in Italy.
Photo: Khanh Renaud
