Tuesday, May 27, 2008
|One Giant Step in Some Sort of Interior Direction|
So despite the fact that if all goes well I will be moving out of my lovely loft apartment in Clinton Stuy to a significantly smaller apartment in Paris in 16mos, I've nevertheless decided to try and turn my apartment into something.
I dunno why it came to me (perhaps after seeing what my hip downstairs neighbors have done with their apartment), but about three or four weeks ago I was seized with this desire to turn one of the empty spaces in my apartment into a sitting room.
But not just a
sitting room. Think more: I've inherited a mansion from a long lost never known very wealthy uncle and the first room that I'm going to change is his study. I want to maintain its sense of presence and elegance, but I want to make it modern (without being mod), hip and me.
The "center"piece of the "reconstruction" of this library is going to be my wall (in my mind I've decided that "books are dead" and I've ripped out all of the book shelves). Ideally lots of framed images/works of varying dimensions floor to ceiling. Maybe even a few mirrors and one or two clocks.
I finally got this piece ("Ariella and Crow," by Sarah Small) that I purchased at the Silent Auction and Rock Show that I went to in the fall framed.
And these pieces that I purchased from Tiny Cup by a Pratt Student (I assume) named Alex Dyck
(I'm not sure how I felt about her, but one of the pieces I just found funny and wanted to have and the other struck me as very "Andreas Gursky meets Nature" in a way that I totally dug), I should be able to pick up from the framer when I get back from Paris.
I also just ordered these two prints from Threadless (and the fact that they've started turning some of their designs into
large format prints could not have been better timed with my interest in this way).
I'm also going to frame some of the black-and-whites that I took back when I was "studying" to "be" a "photographer" and maybe have some prints made of some things I've seen with my new digital camera.
I think (know) the hardest thing will be finding the perfect chairs and tables. How much am I willing to spend? How hard am I willing to look? Will I be able to commit to that special piece when the time comes, should the time ever come?
Stay tuned as it all comes together.
So despite the fact that if all goes well I will be moving out of my lovely loft apartment in Clinton Stuy to a significantly smaller apartment in Paris in 16mos, I've nevertheless decided to try and turn my apartment into something.
I dunno why it came to me (perhaps after seeing what my hip downstairs neighbors have done with their apartment), but about three or four weeks ago I was seized with this desire to turn one of the empty spaces in my apartment into a sitting room.
But not just a
sitting room. Think more: I've inherited a mansion from a long lost never known very wealthy uncle and the first room that I'm going to change is his study. I want to maintain its sense of presence and elegance, but I want to make it modern (without being mod), hip and me.
The "center"piece of the "reconstruction" of this library is going to be my wall (in my mind I've decided that "books are dead" and I've ripped out all of the book shelves). Ideally lots of framed images/works of varying dimensions floor to ceiling. Maybe even a few mirrors and one or two clocks.
I finally got this piece ("Ariella and Crow," by Sarah Small) that I purchased at the Silent Auction and Rock Show that I went to in the fall framed.
And these pieces that I purchased from Tiny Cup by a Pratt Student (I assume) named Alex Dyck
(I'm not sure how I felt about her, but one of the pieces I just found funny and wanted to have and the other struck me as very "Andreas Gursky meets Nature" in a way that I totally dug), I should be able to pick up from the framer when I get back from Paris.
I also just ordered these two prints from Threadless (and the fact that they've started turning some of their designs into
large format prints could not have been better timed with my interest in this way).
I'm also going to frame some of the black-and-whites that I took back when I was "studying" to "be" a "photographer" and maybe have some prints made of some things I've seen with my new digital camera.
I think (know) the hardest thing will be finding the perfect chairs and tables. How much am I willing to spend? How hard am I willing to look? Will I be able to commit to that special piece when the time comes, should the time ever come?
Stay tuned as it all comes together.
promulgated by SWS2.1 at 06:27.
0 comments
0 Comments:
________________________