Upstate vintage shopping and oat-milk cappuccino with RHONY's CountessLuann
Photo: Courtesy de Lesseps On an ancient leather couch tucked in the back of Rough Draft, a cozy bookstore and café in Kingston, New York, Luann de Lesseps is country-house chic in a white puffy vest with a fur-trimmed hood over a gray sweater and nary a statement necklace in sight. There is something unaccountably regal about her, though maybe that’s just good posture.
Like many New Yorkers, de Lesseps could not resist the fantasy of the Hudson Valley as a rural, upstate paradise — even if it isn’t exactly rural, and even if it isn’t exactly upstate. Her “hideout,” as she calls it, a three-bed, four-bath mid-century modern house perched on the Hudson River, is entirely round for good feng shui. It’s a great place to be alone — not counting the company of her beloved Westie, Aston, as in Martin — but an equally great place to host Thanksgiving dinner for 16.
De Lesseps, who says the version of herself she sees portrayed on television is generally “75 percent” accurate, maintains her villainization was unjustified. “When you’re focused on your sobriety and you’re focused on taking care of yourself and staying on the path, it’s hard to give your energy to people,” she says. Sobriety has become a major chapter of her biography as well as a subject of the television show she appears on.
De Lesseps and I walk a block north to Kingston Consignments, where she recently nabbed a set of mid-century coasters. Today, she’s on the hunt for a mid-century mirror, for one of her guest bathrooms in Port Ewen. “Sometimes you find gems,” she says, delicately raising a cute little fur stole to her nose. “The only thing I don’t like about vintage is it smells.
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