[1] Labalme was born in Paris on November 17, 1927 and lived there until 1939 when he moved with his family to New York City.
Their path to matrimony was long and convoluted: they first met briefly in 1939 as 12-year olds when their respective families vacationed together at Eagle Nest camp.
[7] Labalme worked in Milan with architect/designer Gio Ponti followed by five years with industrial designer Raymond Loewy (who was also his uncle) in Paris and New York.
[1] For thirteen years he was a Trustee of The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, through which he helped produce The Poetry of Light, an exhibition of 140 drawings from The National Gallery of Art, displayed at the Correr Museum in Venice in 2014-15.
[1] For many years he was Treasurer of the Renaissance Society of America[9][10] and a board member of the Adirondack Museum.