You Too Can Live in the World of Ludwig Bemelmans

30 items inspired by the artist behind Madeline

You definitely know Austrian-born illustrator and writer Ludwig Bemelmans for creating Madeline, the little French girl in the yellow hat who lived “in an old house in Paris that was covered with vines.” Or maybe you know him as the muralist (and namesake) of Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. (I still haven’t been—last time I tried, I was …