Mica ertegun biography channel

With the collection of Mica Ertegun coming up for sale at Christie’s in five parts this fall—starting live in New York tomorrow and Wednesday, and then continuing live and online in December—there has been much talk of this impossibly elegant woman and her impossibly elegant homes—and of course, that sensational art collection. This is a very long and meandering look at her constantly evolving NYC townhouse, with many photos, so will likely need to be read in your browser or the Substack app.

Here is the text of an Instagram post I made after her death last December, a short biography of her life:

Au revoir to the unimpeachably chic Mica Ertegun (Oct. 21, 1926 - December 2023). From an important Romanian family, after WWII she ended up a stateless, penniless refugee traveling across Europe and finally settling on a farm in Ontario with her aristocrat husband. In the late 1950s, she went to New York to meet a Turkish diplomat who she thought might be able to help free her father, imprisoned by the Communists in Romania for his ties to the former king—though she didn't get the assistance she needed, Mica did meet Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish playboy founder of Atlantic Records. They fell in love, she divorced, and they married in 1961—the beginning of a

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Mica Ertegun’s High Style Stands the Test of Time

Along with being a jetsetter, a New York insider and a working woman, who didn’t have to be, Mica Ertegun had style in spades.

The 97-year-old Ertegun, whose late second husband Ahmet championed such musicians as Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones as Atlantic Records’ cofounder, died Saturday at her home in Southampton, N.Y. After escaping Communism in her postwar Romania, she settled on a Canadian farm before marrying, venturing into interior design, establishing herself as a style arbiter, highly regarded hostess and philanthropist. Her father, Gheorghe Banu, was a Romanian doctor and politician. Her fashion sense stands the test time, based on a few of her interviews with WWD over the years.

As an interior designer, Ertegun’s Manhattan town house embodied her everlasting style – chic, elegant and expensive. Seven years into the MAC II business that she started with fellow socialite Chessy Rayner, Ertegun said friends had been asking them to spruce up their apartments. The founders had been looking for something to do and they thought it would be “very easy,” choosing their own hours and working with friends. Not quite – “We m