Inside Aerin Lauder’s Family Home in Palm Beach | Celebrity Homes | Architectural Digest

For Aerin Lauder, the Estée Lauder family's seaside getaway is a place full of rich memories and endless inspiration.
The white-pillared mansion serves as a splendidly relaxed getaway for three generations of Lauders: Ronald and his wife, Jo Carole; their daughters, Aerin and Jane; and the girls’ own respective families.
Designed by society architect Marion Sims Wyeth in 1924 and acquired by Estée six decades later, the Mediterranean Revival house lay dormant until Jo Carole and Ronald turned it into a family home in the 1990s. They worked with decorator Victoria Borus on the majority of the interiors and enlisted the legendary Jacques Grange to take in hand the library and the great room, replete with furnishings by French masters Jean Royère and Jean Prouvé. Everything is light and airy and painted with glorious custom-mixed Donald Kaufman pastels-pink, yellow, lavender, blue. Says Aerin, “We really played with the idea of indoor and outdoor with the colors.”
The loggia boasts outré vintage Georges Jouve pitchers (Aerin and her mother collect his ceramics on trips to France). The blissfully retro courtyard has white iron furniture arranged beneath a canopy of trees.
“There’s a great home store here called Hive, and my parents were shopping there once,” she says. “My dad was like, ‘I love that lamp.’ The saleswoman said, ‘Oh, that’s an Aerin Lauder lamp.’ And my dad was like, ‘She’s my daughter.’ He has incredible taste, so I was very happy about that.” (Ronald, a former U.S. ambassador to Austria, is a formidable art collector and co-founder of New York City’s Neue Galerie museum.)
Upstairs are comfortable but simple bedrooms: white doors, pale furniture, blinds in place of curtains. The sleeping quarters form a necklace around what Aerin refers to as Estée’s Palm Beach room, a solarium filled with furniture and objects from Estée’s place next door. “When my aunt and uncle moved into her house, they wanted to change it,” she explains. “We were so sentimental about her sense of style that we decided to re-create it here.” There’s even a worn first edition of her 1980s autobiography, Estée: A Success Story, sitting atop the glass coffee table.
The house has a laid-back elegance befitting a family home. In the kitchen, colorful Murano glass sits alongside Goofy and Pinocchio cookie jars from trips to Disney World over the years. The Lauders entertain often in a glamorous yet casual way.
“Always buffets,” according to fashion designer Michael Kors, a close friend and frequent houseguest. “The house definitely has that grandeur you would associate with Palm Beach of a certain era."
Sutherland chaise longues beckon poolside. Albertus Swanepoel hat; Aerin sandals; Aerin for Williams Sonoma cachepot.
At Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder’s house in Palm Beach, lacy 1940s-style furniture, reproductions of matriarch Estée’s originals, outfits a terrace.
In the loggia, 1950s Georges Jouve vases stand on Atelier Viollet tables; Jerusalem stone floor.
Estée’s room is Aerin’s homage to her grandmother, using much of the latter’s furniture in its original quilted Fortuny fabric.
Jean Royère side chairs flank a Jean Prouvé table in the dining area; Tadao Ando blue glass vases, 1920s Katsu Hamanaka cocktail table, pillows made of a Jack Lenor Larsen gold silk. At far left, Aerin floor lamp. Donald Kaufman custom-made wall paint throughout.
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such a relaxing space.

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I was kinda sad to see no art on the walls. I love the planters in the entryway those were very cute. We have similar patio furniture.

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Valentino Dress

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