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Simon Doonan Is an Obese Elf Living in a Palatial Gay Fantasia

“Talk of the Town” with Simon Doonan might trigger LSD flashbacks. Not that we would know. We’re just saying, proceed with caution: “’Palatial gay fantasia’ is how Simon Doonan described his apartment in Greenwich Village the other night, as he swept past two garden gnomes crouching under a bright-orange lacquered console in the foyer. ‘Glamorous romper room,’ he continued, heading toward a paisley-patterned Ping-Pong table in the living room. ‘Because Johnny and I are very infantile.’ Nesting on bookshelves and tabletops were scores of ceramic animals designed by Doonan’s spouse, the homeware baron Jonathan Adler. (’I’m just a simple potter!’ Adler insisted.) A burlap bust of Napoleon was tucked into the fireplace, and about a fifth of the room was taken up by a huge black statue of a foot.” Also: “Adler frequently refers to Doonan as an ‘obese elf.’”