Kelly Marshall

Dec 15, 2023 | architecturaldigest.com | David Foxley |Kelly Marshall |Helen Crowther

“I’m an American, I’m a New Yorker,” says Robert Couturier, surrounded by his four shih tzus on a plush sofa at his Upper East Side apartment. “But if somebody asks me what I am, I would say I’m French. There are some things that stick to you like glue.” Which is why, after his relationship of almost a quarter century recently ended, the Paris-born designer allowed his native country to inspire his next chapter.