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On Jun 21, 5:16 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Jun 20, 4:46 pm, RicodJour <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > No argument there, but where do the kids play? Hopefully there's
> > something outside for them as well. Then again maybe they have to
> > stay inside and genuflect in front of the yellow jerseys.
>
> > > Not the house I would choose, and I persist in believing the living room
> > > is nonsense, but I actually wished for more accompanying photos and
> > > maybe some floor plans. I don't read AD enough to know if that's a
> > > reasonable expectation.
>
> > The designers have a wonderful sense of outdoor space. The interior
> > could be a result of someone, and I'm not mentioning names, tying
> > their hands and micromanaging the design.
>
> When you see a house spread in Architectural Digest
> or any similar magazine, it's invariably been heavily
> styled. That means that a troop of stylists/designers
> descends on the house bearing rental or loaner
> furniture, art, accessories, and so on, radically
> rearranges everything, lights the rooms with a zillion
> candlepower of flashes or hot lights with huge
> diffuser boxes, takes the pictures, and evacuates,
> taking the loaners with them.
>
> This is probably true of LANCE's house even though
> they made heavy weather of his architects and designers
> and so on. I can believe that he really does have all
> that art on his walls, and that his living room does
> look like that (even he said he'll use it maybe a dozen
> times a year). But in reality, the excessive fussiness
> you see is a combination of his actual taste and the
> fact that Architectural Digest spreads show you a
> simulation of an interior rather than a space anyone
> actually lives in.
>
> Since he has little kids, we can virtually guarantee
> that there's at least one room in his house whose floor
> is covered in an ocean of toys when not being
> photographed.
>
> By the way, the Danny Lyon photograph in the kitchen
> near the sink is an extremely classic image, maybe a
> little too well known, but still, somebody who picked
> it had taste. It's the first picture here:
>
> http://www.torpedo-emscher.de/wr/union/rakete/danny_lyon.htm
>
> Ben
> RBR Stylist to the Stars
Michael Kenna would have been tres cooler. Or Friedlander. Lyons work
is important but too much of it looks like Robert Frank. I could sell
Lance some of mine, but he wouldn't buy because I'm unknown (aka a
nobody). His loss.
tf
wrote:
> On Jun 20, 4:46 pm, RicodJour <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > No argument there, but where do the kids play? Hopefully there's
> > something outside for them as well. Then again maybe they have to
> > stay inside and genuflect in front of the yellow jerseys.
>
> > > Not the house I would choose, and I persist in believing the living room
> > > is nonsense, but I actually wished for more accompanying photos and
> > > maybe some floor plans. I don't read AD enough to know if that's a
> > > reasonable expectation.
>
> > The designers have a wonderful sense of outdoor space. The interior
> > could be a result of someone, and I'm not mentioning names, tying
> > their hands and micromanaging the design.
>
> When you see a house spread in Architectural Digest
> or any similar magazine, it's invariably been heavily
> styled. That means that a troop of stylists/designers
> descends on the house bearing rental or loaner
> furniture, art, accessories, and so on, radically
> rearranges everything, lights the rooms with a zillion
> candlepower of flashes or hot lights with huge
> diffuser boxes, takes the pictures, and evacuates,
> taking the loaners with them.
>
> This is probably true of LANCE's house even though
> they made heavy weather of his architects and designers
> and so on. I can believe that he really does have all
> that art on his walls, and that his living room does
> look like that (even he said he'll use it maybe a dozen
> times a year). But in reality, the excessive fussiness
> you see is a combination of his actual taste and the
> fact that Architectural Digest spreads show you a
> simulation of an interior rather than a space anyone
> actually lives in.
>
> Since he has little kids, we can virtually guarantee
> that there's at least one room in his house whose floor
> is covered in an ocean of toys when not being
> photographed.
>
> By the way, the Danny Lyon photograph in the kitchen
> near the sink is an extremely classic image, maybe a
> little too well known, but still, somebody who picked
> it had taste. It's the first picture here:
>
> http://www.torpedo-emscher.de/wr/union/rakete/danny_lyon.htm
>
> Ben
> RBR Stylist to the Stars
Michael Kenna would have been tres cooler. Or Friedlander. Lyons work
is important but too much of it looks like Robert Frank. I could sell
Lance some of mine, but he wouldn't buy because I'm unknown (aka a
nobody). His loss.
tf
