THE PRINCE OF CHINTZ CURTAINS | A SET OF CURTAINS IN BRUNSCHWIG & FILS VERRIERES CHINTZ FROM THE 1984 KIPS BAY SHOW HOUSE ROOM OF MARIO BUATTA

For the 1984 Kips Bay Show House, Mario Buatta created what was arguably his most successful bedroom ever, and the reaction was staggering - Architectural Digest called it 'the bedroom that shook the world', and the journalist Chauncey Howell created history by inventing a new title for Mario Buatta that would ensure his status in the design pantheon - The Prince of Chintz. As the editor of House Beautiful Margaret Kennedy observed, 'at the height of America's obsession with English country style, Mario's interpretation was the best.' The Show House room in which the offered curtains played such a key role was a moment that defined an era