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Alex Papachristidis’ home is over the top and amazing. Those dining room window treatments got me like whoa. 😍
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Thoughts on the loss of F.A.O. Schwartz.
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“You know you have a good design when you show it to people and they say, ‘oh, yeah, of course,’ like the solution was obvious.”
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Existential riddles.
“A woman running a marathon overtakes the person in second place. What place is she in now?
She is now in second place. She’s always in second place. Stephen was right.” -
Aw, poor Rollie. All it wants to do is make some delicious egg tubes for you.
Comments
4 responses to “Honor Roll”
I’ve read your blog daily for years and – though I rarely comment – I feel compelled to say something about your first link. The dining room window treatments are fabulous and, like you, I appreciate the explosion of color and texture, but the revival of orientalist decor is disturbing and upsetting and his entire design thematic depends on it. Design is never neutral, but this example is particularly alienating. As a person of color (or, really, just as a person), I wouldn’t feel comfortable sitting in a room where there’s a black slave figure holding up a side table. How is the French empire a fantasy except if you ignore/objectify/orientalize the bodies that are exploited for that fantasy (and then plaster them all over the walls of your house)? It’s his private home and of course he can decorate it however he wants, but promoting it on One Kings Lane (and here), I think, is a different matter.
My apologies. That table is particularly upsetting, and to be honest, I hadn’t noticed it. My eye went to the colors and patterns and their overall effect, rather than to the specific elements that made up the design. The Chinoiserie wallpaper registered, but in the same way I would noticed a toile de jouy.
Holy maximalism! That house is beautiful! I love all the color.
Also, the existential riddles are hilarious.
Wow, didn’t know FAO had closed! Went there once almost 20 years ago and got way too excited in their Sanrio section.
Loved quizzing my husband this AM with the existential riddles :)