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纽约吃喝玩乐系列：【精彩照片】纽约著名的达科他公寓（The Dakota Apartments） -- 安普若 - (3424 Byte) 2008-1-21 周一, 05:18 (6014 reads) |
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In 1978 Mr. Havadtoy, then 24, was working at the Stuart Greet gallery, an antiques shop and interior design business in New York (Mr. Greet was his personal partner as well as his employer), when John Lennon and Yoko Ono admired a pair of Italian Egyptian revival chairs in the window, walked in, and bought them. Mr. Havadtoy subsequently designed several homes for them, including apartments in the Dakota and two country houses.
When Lennon was shot and killed in 1980, Mr. Havadtoy became Ms. Ono's closest companion, beginning a widely reported but little known relationship that lasted 20 years, six years longer than her marriage to Lennon. Described in news accounts as her boyfriend, companion, spokesman, partner, manager, assistant, business administrator and secret husband, Mr. Havadtoy, after separating from Ms. Ono in 2000, is now easier to describe, if still complex.
Living in Budapest, in an apartment that looks out over the Danube River to the royal castle of Buda, Mr. Havadtoy, 52, is an artist making a serious start on his career. He said he let five years pass, in order to be out of Ms. Ono's shadow. Mr. Havadtoy, who was born in London and raised in Hungary, has owned the apartment since 1995. Reconstructed from two units after being divided in the 1960's, its value would likely be $1 million, he said. Mr. Havadtoy also owns a house and studio in Szentendre, a small town on the river 25 minutes away, and an apartment in London.
"It was some combination of all the roles described, I guess," he said, sitting in his living room, improbably large for post-Communist Budapest, of his relationship with Ms. Ono. "Except I was never her husband. We never got married."
Mr. Havadtoy said they had an oral agreement not to talk about the relationship, including the possibility that their separation involved a financial settlement that Mr. Havadtoy now enjoys. "We just agreed that we will respect each other's privacy, and I think that's more than fair," Mr. Havadtoy said, curling up, as though defensively, on a contemporary Italian sofa with a bamboo-print fabric. Hung above it was a suite of Ms. Ono's pen and ink drawings. The apartment is filled with her art, as well as works by Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and others whom Mr. Havadtoy knew in his heyday in New York.
As a designer and friend, he decorated the room Haring decided he wanted to die in, in imitation of the Ritz in Paris, Haring's favorite hotel. Mr. Havadtoy also worked for Saul Steinberg and Laura Steinberg, Mr. Steinberg's second wife, in the former Rockefeller apartment at 740 Park Avenue. He decorated homes for Jann and Jane Wenner, then for Mr. Wenner and Matt Nye, Mr. Havadtoy said. He also did work for Anne Cox Chambers, the media heiress, including the embassy in Brussels when she was the ambassador to Belgium; for the royal family of Morocco; and for Janis Ian, the singer.
Of Mr. Havadtoy and Ms. Ono, Warhol told his diary in 1984, "I can't figure out if it's her boyfriend or what." By 1985 Warhol noted, "He's Hungarian, it turns out," adding, "He doesn't let Yoko push him around." He concluded: "I guess he just takes care of Yoko. But that's hard."
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作者：孤枕难眠 在 海归茶馆 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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