From the archive: Grayson Carter’s apartment in New Yorks Dakota Building

Walking into Graydon and Cynthia Carter's apartment in New York's Dakota Building, you are immediately assailed by clutter. If you don't trip over the boots in the tiny lobby, then the bicycle will surely get you - or the hockey sticks, or the tennis rackets, or the fishing-rods. Look up, and you see antlers all round the walls. No shrine to Minimalism, this, no temple of antiques, but a family home, country-house style, overflowing with four children and the spoils of years of hunting through flea markets all over the world.

It was not always so. 'Strangely enough,' says Canadian-born Graydon, who is the editor of Vanity Fair magazine, 'we both come from families who lived very sparely. When I first came to New York, I just had a car and a tennis racket and a few clothes. I packed very light; when I first moved apartments the city, I was able to do so in the back of a cab. I started to buy things when I got my first pay cheque.'