STILL SPARKLING AT 68, SUPERMODEL CHRISTIE BRINKLEY WELCOMES US INTO HER LONG ISLAND HOME AS SHE TALKS LOVE, FAMILY AND PUTTING THE FIZZ INTO EVERYDAY LIFE
‘This is a house of souvenirs and memories and stories. It has become part of my family’
Step into Christie Brinkley’s home on Long Island, east of New York – a centuries-old property where one of the oldest American flags was once discovered – and her passion for life is overflowing from every room, from plants and trees inside the home to photo frames made of seashells and driftwood, collected throughout her five-decade modelling career.
Originally built by descendants of the Gardiner family, English colonists who had an island off the coast gifted to them by Charles I in the 17th century, the home has a “whimsical” tower – the perfect place to sit and “drink wine and watch sunsets, rainbows and meteor showers” – and has turned into a family home that her three children still love to
