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I love it, but that kitchen ceiling reminds me too much of shelf fungus! http://i.pbase.com/u16/jfg/large/38964177.7337ShelfFungus.jpg

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God, that ceiling makes me want to throw up X-b Just like those stupid area rugs at Ikea that look like cells in mitosis. Please don't take it personally; just that textures like that really make my skin crawl.

I try to be polite but there and it is her home but .....

i kinda like the bedroom but thats about it. imagine trying to find something if you put it down amonst all that pattern!

ummm...?

If you read the full article - clearly she has a mental problem.. I think this is ugly and childish, why even waste energy posting about her?

It looks pretty cool to me. It's not my taste but I don't understand why the comments have been so mean.

I'm with djheathermarie. What gives? Have we turned into a bunch of mean-hearted control freaks here? Let's talk about ugly and childish, hope(less)4! Save the rudeness for Craigslist Rants and Raves, this site has always been about supporting creativity and individuation.

Well, her aesthetic doesn't rock my boat, but that's me, not a criticism. I love the idea of the Home as an Art Installation, though--defines to me what I've been doing with my place for the last 3 years!

I like the idea of it more than it itself. I mean, I could see this a different way and it could be fantastic, but I think this is weird to be weird, in which case it's sort of original. I didn't like how the article says she is in her late 30s and then adds parenthetically that "she prefers to leave it at that." Maybe that's exactly what she said in the interview herself, maybe the interviewer pressed her for the accurate number before "leaving it at that," but I think however it went, it's a little stupid. Just because you think you're a reporter, you don't have to make issues out of a person's vague age in a fluff piece, especially if they're apparently sensitive enough about it not to reveal it.

So anyway, kind of hideous art project, but I think that's a matter of preference. I think a person's home can be art and it doesn't have to be somewhere you'd choose to live if it's someone else's. To live in an interesting and attractive home doesn't necessarily bind anyone to the conventional styles and recognizable forms and usages. I dislike a lot of things, true, but it's different when someone makes a statement out of their home that's not just "this is where I live, and these are things I like to look at and sit on, this is where I put my keys and hang my coat and wash my dishes, just like all the normal people do." Deliberate choices and strokes to this home are different than the deliberate choices you or I make.

This is a little "crazy lady," but the crowd tends to admire the Brigid Berlin treatment, and to a less famous extent, some of the house tours here bring a distinct vision and apply it to every surface (i.e. Jennifer's Cool and Kitschy Austin Home from recent memory, and dozens of others). A lot of other spaces achieve a cool or modern or traditional, or eclectic look, but few delineate what I would call a "shell," the home as it becomes, in so many words, a living part of the person. I think it's more interesting that she'll be packing it all up and living in Manila and that she likes minimalist style with clean white walls despite what she's made. I look at her apartment not focused on things but like the whole thing is a painting. It doesn't matter that I don't love this exhibit, that I can ask myself what's driving your choices or limiting them; what have you settled for when you can do something amazing?

I like art that I don't have to like to get a message from it.

Mmm...miam! First photo in the post grabbed my eyeballs and wouldn't let go. Love this!

Why the hate? Is it the lack of Eames-age? It would make me a little nutty to live in all that chaos, but that's why I don't. I sure enjoyed looking at it though.

The truly eccentric are a dying breed in cities like NY and San Francisco and I'm sorry that this one is also getting the boot. All so the landlord can "repurpose." Is this the new euphemism for "chop it up into condos for yuppies?"

For all the folks here that are concerned that the landlord "Won't let you paint" - I give you Exhibit A...

Ad hominem, comes to mind. Saying it's horrendous and you don't enjoy, appreciate, understand, possibly even accept a piece is one thing. Making it a personal attack for a preference whether art or otherwise is another. Now does prop H8 surprise anyone?

I agree that eccentrics and the art they create are a breed apart and thank god for it. That's why we have all this (now expensive) outsider art that's been 'discovered'.

Wasn't Van Gogh Schizophrenic?

Doesn't float my boat, but it does remind me a little bit of Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago...

What's with saying Wilson's crazy? She sounds self-aware to me -- admits to OCD (pretty apparent from the pics.) So what?

Her decor is just art-gone-overboard because it's her grand farewell to her home. Hardly puts her on the verge of cutting off an ear and mailing it to an unrequited lover.

I dig it!