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Pope in the closet scares me!

The chess set with the figurines modeled after suicide bombers and the WTC burning is especially classy. I do like the headboard shaped out of a wing, and I guess the guy is obsessed with zebras.

This reminds me of the type of place a serial killer would live. How quaint.

I do have to say though that the picture of beefcake Ahmadinejad is hilarious.

lol, I had the same thought, kristina! I wondered if anyone else caught that.

I would LOVE to live there.

Who is the bear?

Seriously, I like this kind of 'intelligent design.'

BRILLIANT!!!!!

n2denim.... you took the post right out of my fingers!

Ahhh!!! I thought that was him!!!

"Iran so far... so far so far so far"

I think he's crazy pants, but just cause he has relegious leaders stuffed into closets doesn't mean he's violent... probabaly.

Just back from the slideshow. I'm stealing the diorama's in glass coffee table idea... might even throw some zebra's in there.

I keep finding new things in those pictures - like that thing made of Barbies - what is that supposed to be? It wasn't brought up in the article.

The ball of barbies is sort of freaking me out

The slideshow has some even creepier rooms, like the one with the diorama of the Kennedy assassination

I like the wall of rusted metal in the dining room.

Now, as far as the nightstands are concerned...On the left one, laying at the base of the lamp....is that what I think it is? (if it is, it's laying on its side, facing away from the camera)


Wow...if only his movies were this edgy.

This is completely amazing! I love every single thing, especially the desk and headboard made out of plane wings.
Amazing!

What an intriguing flat. I agree with btoddster....if only his movies had this much impact.

The humor, the scale and textures of the objects, the colors, it just all works. You would never find this house dull or boring. It is a great space to live in and be inspired by.

Disgusting! What would his friends from NYC think of the WTC chess figurine? Not an inviting place, perhaps good for a museum, art gallery show. I wouldn't want to be a guest here and wake-up next to Ahmadinejad. But I did like the airplane headboard, where can I get something like that?

Ironically, I don't think this house is very 'far from conservative.' Take away the rather theatrical political art, waxworks, socialist memorabilia, and baby zebras and it's a livable, comfortable-looking decor that might please any (quite wealthy) modernist not addicted to chairs with names. Probably with an eye to resale, the designer has done nothing to the space that's so weird it can't be packed up or painted over. The surfaces and furnishings show creativity and innovation, but not the bizarre or impractical aspects of the truly avant-garde. OK, except for the ginormous White House bird cage, which is brilliant, but just silly.

The chess set is a comment on how the WTC bombing was part of the global chess game. I'm from New York (yeah, I was there) and I wasn't offended (more offended by the real "global chess game"). That's not to say I don't respect anyone's disgust or dislike of the piece. Perfectly understandable.

A lot of it is just plain MFA show level art, but I do love the Pope in the closet!

Wow- that apartment is an inhabitable work of art. Art doesn't always make us comfortable, but it should always make us think. Bravo. Brilliant. F*cked up, but brilliant.

The design of the spaces definitely makes you think and will probably start some interesting conversations. I would love to visit... and write on the chalkboard walls and ceiling...

Wow! What a wonderfully wacky place! Although the Pope would startle me every time I see it.

Would love to walk this space in person, who knows what else one might find.

Sure.

Bold, daring and provocative. Not to sound ingratiating, but it takes some courage to truly design for oneself rather than to avoid the disapproval of others.

anyone else think John Nash when look at the chalkboard paint room

I'd love to be invited to cocktails there...
...but I don't think I could live there - not with the messy desk and the Pope in the closet. (wrong Pope for the closet, I might add)

I'd love it if someone said my house was 'plain MFA show level art'...sigh.

And I guess if he really wants to lighten up his neighborhood, he can always go a little 'Dali in Figueres' on them...

I wonder what it must be like to be told the same joke over and over and over and over and over and over and over and

Fan. Fucking. Tastic.

He, he - nice to see a blog - seems to have crashed my website with visits though - should be back online on monday apparently - if anyone needs my email in the meantime its info@fluxinteriors.com

John Teall
Flux Interiors -

fabulous dildo alarm clock on the left night stand, opposite the hunka hunka in the frame.