A LEMONIA FOR CHRISTMAS

I just hung up with Ike Isenhour, who’s on his way to the airport to spend the holidays with Brenda Schoenfeld in Florence. She just bought a lemonia there, which is an ancient stone building where lemon trees are stored for the winter. He says it’s filled with lemon trees now, and can you imagine the smell! Ike will be renovating and decorating her lemonia-cum-villa there. It’s never been used as a house before, and Ike says converting it will be a challenge he’s excited about.

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Ike has also been hired to renovate the glorious, Spanish style house on Turtle Creek with the blue tile and cupola, which belongs to Brenda’s Ex husband, Robert Edsel, who no doubt will fill it full of his collection of Italian old masters. If that’s not enough, Ike tells me he’s recently moved into a new apartment, which just happens to be the very same apartment he helped design for Brenda years ago…..