It ceased to exist a decade before I was born, and by the time I first saw a black-&- white photo of it when I was twelve, its creator had been dead for more than twenty years. So I’ll avoid the potential pitfalls of those two excellent topics and simply say that the interior that made the single biggest impact on me was one I never saw in person. So I’m not going to try to invite comparisons with the work of others by saying that ‘So-&-so has inspired me’. The impulse toward beauty is inborn & the instinct to copy is innate, but sometimes, seeing (or hearing) the mediocre results, you wish they weren’t. Joe Nye's high style in his small-scale apartmentīasically, they inspire me in the same way that, say, an opera singer inspires the person humming along with the aria in row seven. A few weeks ago I went to a reception in the ultra-glamorous Chicago penthouse that David Adler did for the Charles Goodspeeds in 1927, In fact, I said yes before I even had a clear idea of exactly what the topic was supposed to be-Inspiring Interiors or Influential Interiors, something like that-but hey, that’s never stopped me before.Īnyway, if it was “Influential Interiors”, I can think of a slew of them: a large, high, lustrous-walled yellow salon in overcast London a tiny brown-lacquered jewelbox of a studio apartment high above Manhattan a monochromatic parchment-covered room in France a glittering black-&-white dining room in Lake Forest, all of which have influenced several generations of later designers-but why talk about rooms that many Fans of Emily could describe better, especially considering that, unlike me, many of those people have probably seen said rooms in person, and know, (or have known) some of those rooms’ creators? So I’ll leave that subject to those who know what they’re talking about.Īnd I can hardly talk about rooms that have inspired my own work, since there’s not much of that & what there is is pretty insignificant. When Emily asked me to contribute something to her anniversary week posts, I couldn’t tell her no. A comment from Magnaverde is something every blogger looks forward to - and many readers as well as he currently ranks in my top 10 search terms of the year. Editor's note: Not that Magnaverde needs any introduction, but it's impossible to resist saying a few words about the man who introduced me to Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and the most drop-dead glam interiors I have ever laid eyes on at Chicago's Casino Club.
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