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LOVE the white, open, cleanly simplicity.

not to be rude but, are you kidding me?
i get "minimal" but that bedroom looks like a garage people are squatting in. Where are the comforts of home?

I just don't understand this version of design. I know some love minimalism, but -- no. Leaves me totally cold. Such a huge and open space, but so sterile. If not for the ceilings, it would look more like a waiting area for a medical office. No color, virtually no furnishings (and the pieces there fade into the walls), with just a few twigs and flowers? Just... no.

And that bedroom: a TV on milk crates?

I just don't understand why anyone would want to live this way.

I can hear the echos in that place from here...

Agree with the above comments; particularly the TV on milk crates. Minimalism is great; I personally love it. But this is just depressing.

This is silly. This is at the very least a 2 million dollar loft. This is a woman who can afford nice decor, probably wants nice decor but has decided to be ironic and minimal as if she were actually a starving artist who truly cannot afford nice things. It's one thing if you're the genuine article, I've seen some beautiful derelict real artists lofts in Bushwick, where the real artist have been vacated to, but this just screams poser to me.

I strive to be a minimalist (slowly but surely), but this might be going too far for me.

i dont think thats even livable? it's like they just put the furniture there so they can take a photoshoot.

And look at those floors???

I get the desire to avoid being weighed down with a ton of personal possessions, but yeah, this is going pretty far.

I could never live like this, but if she's happy with it, good for her.

What's not livable? She has a couch, a TV, a bed, some very sexy and comfortable chairs...what else does she need? She has a life to live, unlike people typing comments here! Alas...

When a former fashion model who now is an art gallery director puts a TV on milkcrates in her bedroom in a 2 million dollar loft in Soho its 'minimalist'. When I do it in my rental apt in LA its 'trashy'.

i do love her living room chairs and sofa though....

I really admire people who can live without "stuff." Not even a side table upon which to perch a glass of wine. Not even a book on the bookcases. I would need a staff of ten picking up behind me.

I think its charming and to the point.
Gallery directors aren't necessarily wealthy, and Vassell's post at Deitch is a fairly recent one (there was an article about her a few weeks ago in the NYT). The space, if the last line of the article is any indication, is likely a work in progress. It's an entertainment space. For that it's perfect. What, the Knoll chairs aren't enough to tickle any of your Mid C fancies?

The bedroom looks awful.

It doesn't even look like living without stuff to me. Crates are stuff. Expensive trendy chairs are stuff. In fact, that open shelving over the bed is distracting stuff: closed storage would look cleaner.

It's just aggressively, in-your-face, intentionally unnattractive stuff. (except for the chairs, which are trendy and expensive but attractive) So, uh, it's not the minimalism I have a problem with.

ha ha ha, you people are so easy to predict. i wondered how soon someone would call it cold or ask where the so-called comforts of home are. silly.

Maybe it's just the photographs, the ones that they re-direct you to. "Close up on my cool friends putting their drinks on a cardboard box based table!", "Close up on my milk crates, see how ironic I am?!". Whatever works for her I suppose.

If only her home were as beutiful as her....SIGH.

I find it depressing. It has no warmth or personality...too cold. Another loft featured now on AT is the total opposite. A few comments said it was too cluttered....but I'll take that one any day. Really fun!

This loft and it's resident represents everything that is obnoxious about the art world. It isn't cold, rather, it's just joyless, bereft.

Artists should live in lofts because they need light and space to paint. Not predictable, 2nd tier art dealers.

hate it.

I see, so she likes the colours of a Paul Smith dress, but she wants her home...her HAVEN, if you will, to look like phlegm. Talk about from the sublime to the ridiculous.

absurd and pretentious.
i think the worst travesty is the empty bookcase. *shudder*

sooo you are tell me that post high school my room could have been features in NY mag....

*surprised there wasnt any cement blocks as end tables*


um yeah. fail. whale. big.time.

im betting if the article came with a scratch and sniff, it would smell of stale beer and perfume