Career
Her popularity began in the 1950s when she designed the Young & Rubicam"s lobby and when she became part of "s inner circle. Her most famous project was a collaboration with Warhol, a comedic cookbook. Her own decorating style, in contrast to Warhol"s popular art, was traditional.
Her connection with Warhol brought about client types that were both wealthy and well known in society.
After graduating with honors from Stanford University, Frankfurt moved to New York to work in the research department of the advertising agency Young & Rubicam in 1955. Stephen also worked as a film title designer, whose most famous project was doing the titles for the film “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The two wed the next year and conceived two boys, later divorcing in 1968.
According to Frankfurt, her own five-story Georgian town house on Seventy-third Street off Park Avenue, was her greatest creation. Decorated with 19th-century Russian pieces, her living room includes early 19th-century Austrian chairs, an 18th-century Russian sewing table, a stark needlepoint rug, and Brunschwig and Fils sofa silk.
Her house was sold to Edgar Bronfman Junior. after Frankfurt came to believe that her time in New York was up.
She then relocated to Massachusetts where she bought a 1780s farmhouse. The farmhouse had original pine floors, a wooden paneled living room, five bedrooms, and six fireplaces. Her style is shown throughout the interior with warm colors, large furniture pieces, and unique elements such as her self-portrait displayed above the fireplace along with a bulky hand statue placed on her coffee table, while the exterior depicts a white, southern style house with stone walls surrounding the property.
The two came to meet in 1959 at the New York Plaza Hotel after one of ’s art expositions in the restaurant Serendipity.
They were friends for life and even collaborated in writing the book “Wild Raspberries." lieutenant was a hand-written, brightly colored cookbook spoof accompanied with abstracted watercolor illustrations by Warhol. Suzie Frankfurt died on January 7, 2005, after arising complications from a brain tumor.
Frankfurt is remembered for her Russian-inspired designs paired with her sophisticated and chic flair, and she will also be remembered, through her relationship with Warhorl, as an important individual of American history.
