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1 month ago'I'm not trying to impress anyone with what I buy': how Catherine Walsh went from cosmetics queen to art collector
Then in her mid-30s and ascending the corporate ladder at Estée Lauder, where she forged a stellar career as a product innovator and marketing mastermind, she had acquired a site in the historic centre of Telluride, the Colorado ski resort. Pawson had not yet designed a private residence in the US. But she took him to dinner, and in time-honoured tradition, he sketched out an idea on the paper tablecloth, along with a calculation of what it would cost. The result was a much-published stone-and-timber structure, for which he designed all the furniture too.