Author, design aficionado, and longtime
ELLE Decor contributor Julia Reed, who died last August at the age of 59, was well known for entertaining her readers and she was almost as well known for entertaining her guests. This week, the New Orleans auction house Neal Auction announced that starting February 5, many of the heirlooms, art, and
objets that filled Reed’s homes and enlivened her spirited gatherings will be up for sale.
A decorated journalist whose passions ran from politics to literature to food, Reed built her collection over the years from her travels around the world and in her native South.