Hot or Not? Roy McMakin Installation — Drawing a Line

The image above is from an untitled Roy McMakin installation from 2003. It's an interesting way of blending a traditional furnishing scheme with a very modern color scheme (or lack thereof)...another image after the jump...

You can view more of Roy McMakin's design projects (including furniture and architecture) on Domestic Furniture, Domestic Architecture, and Matthew Marks Gallery.

Comments (22)

First pic looks like a shadow - Too bad it's not shaped like the Grim Reaper...

It's naughty and shocking! However, very intriguing. I think I would love to see this kind of thing in a gallery (or like here on AT) but never in my own home. I'd get sick of it so quickly!

hot or not is NOT a good forum for art critique.

The grey bed looks like an ad for depression medication.

Art installation yes, interior decor no.

I would be busy obsessive compulsively lining everything up perfectly to ever have time to enjoy the room.

This could be a good solution for a small living space like my own. You can create a line of separation between living areas without using furniture. I prob wouldn't use gray, but I like the possibility of maxing the use of my limted space.

As my Mom would say "Wo...There's a lign!..."

Voting on art installations as though they were interior design ideas is pointless. This isn't something 99 percent of real people would be willing to see done in their homes with good reason, but in a gallery most of us would find it mildly entertaining. So "hot or not" is irrelevant. (And personally, I don't even think it succeeds that well as art.)

ha bepfs! i'm currently reading "Death: a life" so the grim reaper comment really did it for me. :-) more than this as art - unfortunately. but... i'm not an art critic so whadda i know?

oops, typo alert - meant to type "bepsf"

love it as an art installation, and for "INSPIRATION" for my own home. I agree with antimatt's comment. "hot or not" isn't really a fair way to discuss art...

I love it. As art and as interior.

Wholly inappropriate for a HOT or NOT--especially considering Mr. McMakin builds furniture intended for the home and designs buildings as well (he was featured on the cover of Dwell a year or two back for these reasons). These sorts of endeavors would be far more appropriate for a HOT or NOT.

I am not sure which McMakin exhibition this installation is from, but I have seen exhibitions of his work similiar to this. My understanding is that his work has very little to do with interior design, at least in the way Apartment Therapy is concerned with interior design, and everything to do with the fading and coding of memories, among other things. For example, he's done installations in which he has rebuilt furniture he remembers his grandmother owning--the pieces colorless and out of scale (peices often over-sized as a child may experience adult-sized furniture; colors muted or completely obliterated and uniform). I would not dismiss this work as gimmicky. My sense is that it's personal, maybe even sentimental, warm in a way, and if nothing else, impeccably crafted.

Perhaps the work does not resonate with you, but that's no reason to describe it pejoratively in a public forum--especially if you've never seen the work in person, and especially, especially if your only experience with the work comes from this one posting.

What menoselgato said. Ditto.