Below: Juan Pablo Molynuex, Paris
this: "A man who has two women loses his home, but
a man who has two houses loses his mind." Having
survived about five tandem homes, I can attest to the
wisdom of this saying.
I think, also, of the nomadic
writer Bruce Chatwin,
who
purported,
often
in his writings, to spurn
materialism, yet who had
been a director at Sotheby's
as a very young man
and created exquisitely
attuned interiors wherever
he wandered. Part of the
romance of Susannah
Clapp's biography, With
Chatwin, is the detailed
descriptions she gives of
his various abodes; one
hopes a photographic
record of these might
someday emerge. Perhaps
the underlying, secretly
primary reason a designer
acquires a "vacation home"
is precisely the opportunity it provides to decorate
without repeating him or herself while yet retaining a
pungent trace of signature.
Michele Keith notes, accordingly, that she was surprised
by "The long distances some of the designers travel
to their holiday homes…Cortney and Bob Novogratz
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