Design is my whole life. It used to be fabrics when I was a child, because my parents were in fabric production, and then I met Matteo and it remained my world ever since.

It’s high-low: like a farmhouse meets Versailles. I love the idea that simple and sophisticated things come together.

A little Baroque angel from the Museo del Duomo in Salzburg, which Matteo gave me two years ago at Christmas. It’s childish, and wise, and holy, and gold! And I have a bronze mouse from the artist Francis Upritchard. It’s very small and very special to me.

I couldn’t say—every year I do a big sale for charity and I sell everything. In general, the things I can’t be without at home are things like perfume and potatoes! The things that make it feel like home.

I love buying special plates that I want to remain here when I pass this home on. The vases that Matteo designed for Tiffany & Co in 1987 are also very precious.

A lip balm! Everyone has dried lips in the mountains (I buy a special one by Laniege). Otherwise, it’s something like a prototype of Matteo’s or lately a copy of my book, In the Summer of 2009, which features photographs of his work by my dear friend, Walter Pfeiffer.