Bethann Hardison, the former runway model and models’ agent, in front of an autographed Andy Warhol poster that the artist gave to her. “I used to have lunch at the Factory all the time,” she said.
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The wall in Ms. Hardison’s living room has artwork by friends like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as paintings from Haiti. The Thai benches flanking her desk are from the TriBeCa office of Bethann Management, the modeling agency she ran from 1984 to 1996.
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Ms. Hardison said she rarely sits on the lounge chair, which is covered in a kilim from ABC Carpet & Home and pillows she bought at Zona, the pioneering home furnishings store that was once a fixture in SoHo: “My favorite place to relax is the bathtub.”
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The photograph of supermodel Naomi Campbell was a table marker at Ms. Campbell’s 40th birthday party in the south of France. “I’ve known Naomi since she was 14 as her coach, shaman, whatever,” Ms. Hardison said.
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Displayed in a glass-front cabinet are a pair of bandage-style shoes that Herve Leger made for Ms. Hardison when she was the maid of honor at the model Iman’s wedding to David Bowie. “I keep them here like a piece of art,” she said.
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Figures from Africa, Cuba and Mexico are lined up in the living room. “You’ve got to have something from the Day of the Dead,” said Ms. Hardison, who has two homes in Mexico: a house in the mountains and a “shack” by the beach.
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The late graffiti artist Keith Haring drew on this logoed plate from Mr. Chow while he and Ms. Hardison were dining there one evening. “I should have framed it,” she said. Instead, she absentmindedly washed it one day. “I could never get over that.”
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Ms. Hardison said she has never considered moving out of the apartment that she moved into 36 years ago. “When you live in a building like this, you just hope they don’t make you leave,” she said.
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