Oh, all over wallpaper and the eccentric beings who hang it. Diana Vreeland,  the infamous fashion editor, is here reclining in a room she wanted “to look like a garden, but a garden in hell.”  How right she was, the sea of red behind her looks like a Matisse painting minus the sanity. Pictured beside Ms. Vreeland is another 1970′s geometric explosion, and two Sylvia Sleigh portraits that I wish I had painted.

For those of you fascinated by this diva, below is a grainy, but enchanting interview she did with Henry Geldzahler in her flaming floral living room, called “The Empress and the Commissioner.”  I recommend fast forwarding to 24 minutes into the interview, where Vreeland divulges, “you know I’m only really envious of one thing, and that is a surfer. I think it’s the most beautiful thing. I’m mad about water, I think water is god’s tranquilizer, to be in it, to drink it,  to look at it….and to be a SUUUUURFER! ah between the sky and the water…would be, for me,  the most wonderful thing….I’m sorry I just didn’t make it.”  She may not have been the master of the ocean, but she most certainly is the queen of that cardinal colored room.