<span style="font-style: italic;">From weightless photographs <span style="font-weight: bold;">, Is a perfect world of a perfect life ?</span><br />A perfect word, but it does not make sense.. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMyf9Z5wKmM">(fair warning)</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">vs.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"perhaps more important, they can live in the duplex without feeling as if they were parts of the decor, characters in a play or<span style="font-weight: bold;"> orphans wandering through a museum.</span>"</span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6151/6172332943_dcd5f882ac_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6172842382_34c47b93ff_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6172842382_34c47b93ff_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 917px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />"Indeed most of the recognized forms of effect are studiously, almost puritanically a</span><span style="font-size:100%;">voided. "</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(voided)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">When does a room become a museum?</span></span></span> Simply lost in thought today, as I roam the empty rooms of the 1970's, and 1980's. These images are from a favorite collection,<a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/1979-Architectural-DIGEST-New-York-Interiors-/370510343335"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > Architectural Digest, New York Interiors, 1979</span></a>, <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">when it all felt new</span></span>, and unstaged. At least it does in the photos. - David John<br /><br />"In the interiors designed by<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Arthur Smith<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;">the decorator's personality is never obtrusive,</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;"> </span>and his professional touch is characteristically unisistent. There is no hint of striving after picturesque effect. Indeed most of the recognized forms of effect are studiously, almost puritanically avoided. Color contrasts are subtle, even when the colors are used relatively strong. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Elimination is the keynote.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6151/6172332943_dcd5f882ac_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6151/6172332943_dcd5f882ac_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 583px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">From weightless photographs <span style="font-weight: bold;">, Is a perfect world of a perfect life ?</span><br />A perfect word, but it does not make sense.. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMyf9Z5wKmM">(fair warning)</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">vs.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"perhaps more important, they can live in the duplex without feeling as if they were parts of the decor, characters in a play or<span style="font-weight: bold;"> orphans wandering through a museum.</span>"</span>

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