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Minimalism isn't my style, but I could easily bring my things in and live there.

I don't think anyone has lived in that apartment. I think that the architect took those pictures before his clients moved in. There isn't even any shampoo or soap in the shower! No one lives like that. Even my super anal uncle leaves a bottle of shampoo (mind you, he transfers it to a different container) in the shower.

I find it really hard to believe that anyone could--let alone, would want to--live with every single one of their possessions stowed away in a cupboard. No books? No cooking gadgets? Not a single photo or piece of art?

Why are photos and nicknacks the only thing that gives a living space personality? The absence of such things are just as much an indication of personality as their presence. If you're going to criticize it, criticize it for failing to do what it's obviously trying to do, not for failing to be your favored decorating style. Criticize it for being as dark as a cave (that shower is perfect for a bad horror movie) or the absolutely ugly Nelson bench-inspired facade. I don't think anyone lives here yet anyway. The only furniture seems to be an LC4 and Eileen Gray table that keeps moving from shot-to-shot.

I need a housekeeper to go with it, large format modern art mix matched with a few tribal art pieces on the wall, the perfect coffee table and books; perfect white porcelain china and antique silver for place settings, over the top clear murano glass stemware...a dog like a chocolate labrador...and my honey babe!!!

Perfection and Yes in London!

Love the kitchen, hate the bathroom.

Why the torso mirror in the bathroom? Why!?

Too cold and hard and monochromatic for me. Brown, black, gray, white. Something, anything, with a little color and a little squish to it would make a world of difference. As it is, it looks corporate, not human.

I could live there, the less mess and clutter the better I think its stunning

I think it is amazing. Nothing irks me more than useless knick-kancks and tchotchkes cluttering up spaces. EVERYONE needs to work to keep these to an absolute minimum. They are ALWAYS tacky and have no merit whatsoever.

On the other hand, this is a very interesting coversation abut architects and the lack of anthropomorphic qualities in their dwellings. I actually had a conve like this w/ some friends years ago. Most architects seem to hate people. They never photograph their spaces with people in them and even their fancy computer renderings often show people only in silhouette form. Even in architecture publications the spaces are always photographed devoid of humans. Is it Modernism's fault? I believe it's because many architects fancy themselves artists and people are just an unavoidable nuisance that clutter up their genius.

That Eileen Gray is probably knock-off too.

By the way, does anyone know where I can get get the glass for an Eileen Gray table knock-off?

*zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

I think it's beautiful, but only in its current state. Requires a very rigid and disciplined inhabitant. Otherwise the whole concept falls apart.

It looks so .... lonely...

This is perfect for a hotel, but not a home.