But when I saw a zebra-print sofa in the media room of Paloma Elsesser’s town house, it stopped me in my tracks. Unlike the tacky zebra prints that I was exposed to throughout my childhood (I’m having ...
In 1882, the Abyssinian Emperor thought the zebra so majestic that he gave one to French President Jules Grévy ( 1879-1887 ), hence the reference to the ‘imperial zebra’. The Grevy’s zebra ...