“Never more, never less.” That was the trademark philosophy of legendary interior designer Albert Hadley, who masterfully shaped high-society taste for decades. Before he died in 2012, he crafted iconic spaces for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis—including the White House breakfast room and her famed red Park Avenue library—as well as Oscar and Annette de la Renta, Diane Sawyer, and the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Getty families.
One of Hadley’s lesser-known projects can…

