"Grace Kelly won Hollywood's top honor, an Academy Award, at just 25 years old. Only a year later, she entered another high-status strata: real-life royalty. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Kelly eventually made her way to the West Coast, where she became one of Tinseltown's most iconic stars. With memorable roles in High Noon, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief, she captured the hearts of film audiences and accomplished directors alike."
""I had also spent nearly ten years acting-so it was quite a change from an actor's life to civilian life, so to speak. My real difficulty was to become a normal person after being an actress for so long. For me, at that time, a normal person was someone who made films!""
"In Monaco, Kelly embraced a new life of elegance, tradition, and a regally refined design aesthetic. She worked hard to craft a home that offered tranquility and balance for herself and her family. As the former actor wrote in her 1980 tome, My Book of Flowers, "there is more than enough to disturb our equilibrium in the outside world, so it is of great importance to find serenity and calm in one's own milieu.""
Grace Kelly won an Academy Award at 25 and left Hollywood after meeting Prince Rainier III, completing her final film, High Society, in 1956. She moved from a modest West Hollywood apartment to the Prince's Palace in Monte Carlo and adapted from an actor's lifestyle to royal duties. She described the challenge of becoming a "normal person" after nearly ten years of acting. In Monaco she adopted an elegant, traditional, and refined interior aesthetic and worked to create a tranquil, balanced home for family life. She maintained residences in California, New York, New Jersey, France, and Switzerland. Fifteen images present glimpses of her domestic world.
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