Shaggy Chic.
In: New York Times Magazine, 2009-10-04, S. 28
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After years of snickering at them, I'm starting to feel nostalgic for the warmth of wood, shag carpeting and spider plants in macrame holders. It's probably our uncertain, recessionary times, but the hippie-modern aesthetic of the late '60s and early '70s, with its cavelike sheltering vibe and its tendency toward clutter, feels more reassuring than the slick, not-a-hair-out-of-place minimalism that was all the rage until recently. Not that the counterculture invented shaggy chic: just look at the Pennsylvania house and studio of Wharton Esherick, a work the master designer and sculptor tinkered with from 1926 to 1966, or that holy grail of gemutlich modern, Charles and Ray Eames's 1949 house in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Both managed to be cutting edge without the edge. The 1957 house in Big Sur, Calif., that the architect Nathaniel Owings, of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, designed for himself (in collaboration with Mark Mills) was Modernist in form and layout but organic in its use of wood, especially in the kitchen and master bathroom. Even the most elegant of decorators got in on the cozy-cool act; a New York bedroom decorated by David Hicks features slightly psychedelic, geometric-patterned wallpaper and a plush fur bedspread. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Shaggy Chic.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | PILAR, VILADAS |
Zeitschrift: | New York Times Magazine, 2009-10-04, S. 28 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2009 |
Medientyp: | serialPeriodical |
ISSN: | 0028-7822 (print) |
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