apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

But while the concept suffered one fundamental flaw – the discrepancy between the scale of the actual textiles and that of the rooms – Simmons used the creative potential of this shortcoming to her advantage. Like the sense of dislocation that characterized her early photographs of dollhouse interiors (a project, coincidently, that also began in 1976, and was recently documented in the book In and Around the House), the aesthetic inconsistencies of the new work assure a collection of domestic spaces that are simultaneously seductive and disturbing, evocative and unknown.

Laurie Simmons: Instant Decorator series

All images from the website of Laurie Simmons.

Read a New York Times essay accompanying the 2004 exhibition here (essay by Linda Yablonsky).

(Re-published from 02-25-2008)