By Spencer Morgan 11/14/07 12:40am

Born Bookish? Italian Textile Heir And Party Toy Cody Franchetti Shows Surprising Scholarly Side

One summer afternoon, the Italian textile heir and occasional model Cody Franchetti spotted a trash bin on the sidewalk outside his West Fourth Street apartment overflowing with classic literature. “They were all bad editions but great books,” Mr. Franchetti said. “From Flaubert, to Goethe, to Hemingway.” There was also a bound, if slightly soiled, Yale Read More

By Lizzy Ratner 1/30/06 12:00am

Baron Franchetti Gets Ready

At an appropriately sophisticated hour on a recent Tuesday evening, 29-year-old Cody Franchetti relaxed at his table at the four-star restaurant Le Bernardin, explaining what it means to be an Italian aristocrat in 21st-century New York. In honor of the occasion, but mostly because the restaurant required it, Baron Franchetti—whose family tree includes Twomblys, Millikens, Read More