OMG. A purple carpet and zebra skin. Sweeping curtains and a bust. Totally mental. I wouldn't be able to live with that. Disgusting. I'm not a deco fan but the the colours! They are minging. Did someone say taste?

Digging the prints though.


I'd have thought mid-century interest would have meant your home having a modernist slant, in which case yes.

Hell, this home isn't Ivy. It is awful. Really. An Ivy home to my understanding is either East Coast/Hamptons, New England style,  or modernistic style. But that's only my personal opinion. But I wouldn't go that far to have "Ivy" home anyway - I like mixing modern and vintage, classic and practical stuff... Chens' style is "nouveau riche"/preppy at it's best. Dig the bookshelf, though. The way he organised everything is well done, looks quite ok. The poor Zebra is disgusting...

The house screams Vogue magazine come and do a piece on my apartment.  Mine screams you have a dog and kids.  I don't think there is an Ivy style of house.  The wealthy prior to the Second World war ranged from old money to the nouveau riche of the 1910~1920s who furnished their beach house and country homes differently to the main house.  There was the Victorian and Edwardian clutter toa  cleaner more modern art deco style and mixtures of all.  Kids and dogs mkae house3s look different to bachelors. I'm sure everyone here has a main town house and a beach or country house for the weekend.

The faux-classical bust, tiger rug, and general eeriness of the setup is evocative of 70s charlton heston vehicle Omega Man.

I think his last apartment also reminded me of Omega Man. Is it just that bust, in tandem with The Great Chensvold's delusional smugness? I don't know and have already stopped caring.

However, I do look forward to future posts on battling (non wasp? ) post-apocalyptic zombies in the rose bowl and, continuation of the human race with an afrocentric Soul Sister. His mail-order bride may have to stand in.

Last edited by Shamrockorangutan (2012-04-22 22:56:47)

Shamrockorangutan wrote:

His mail-order bride ......

Meaning?

Ah, well. I like the yogi pose. Stare long enough and he begins to hoover and float around.

Generally, I just wonder what this bare feet thing shall send out. Sometimes you see that on pics like that and I still haven't figured out what the message is. The person is relaxed and very much at home? The floor is warm enough to walk around on bare feet? The person is cool and unorthodox?  There MUST be a message.

Maybe they smell of Zebra ?

Maybe he thought he was brian jones.

Liam Mac wrote:

Axelist wrote:

There MUST be a message.

His feet are stinking and need to be aired?

That's too simple. There MUST be something else.

Mr. James wrote:

I've finally decided that it's the tiny sofa / wide armchair thing he's climbed up on that bothers me most....

It's strange doll's house stuff. Tiddly and odd.

In any case, it is too large to be placed where it is. Classically, you would put some sort of Chiffoniere between two windows. And smaller rooms win a lot space when they are painted in brighter colours. But it's personal taste, anyway.

I'd be happy to live in NYC in flat like that. It's alright. Not my style. But then I've got kids, relatives, friends, pets, work colleagues, overseas visitors, outcast nephews living in, band practice, recording studio, gym, artist studio, storage for divorced no hoper friends, too many books for a single built in bookshelf. A wall full of bloody vinyl LPs never played, wardrobes full of shit, shoes, silly tasteless  nick knacks that remind me of people lost or dead, paintings by people that aren't famous or even good but I have out of friendship. Speakers positioned just so in front of listening chair even though it doesn't suit the room. Almost nothing how I'd have it because i live witha bunch of other people who have ideas and preferences too. Clothes drying on a rack over the heating outlet. A sheet of wood blocking one fireplace to stop a possum who was trapped inside two bloody nights in a row.

No the papers won't have my house in the Sunday edition lifestyle feature.

As regards this chinfield guy. Until recently he was just another guy on the Internet. I had seen the contretemps here but took no notice. The he snaffled Gone To Gowings post on Australian ivy. I decided he was a bit of a prick but probably excused as an ignorant striving American. Then in a fit of narcissistic self justification and Internet bombast he sought to denigrate any effort involved in finding the information about oz ivy. I decided he was a dishonest unlikable prick.

But it doesn't matter much.

Last edited by fxh (2012-04-23 05:36:33)

I much preferred his old place anyway...