Grand Tour
Tue, 25 Mar 2008
Call it serendipity but just as I'm ready to write today's post I receive an email from Jonathan Adler's PR Director Deb Willis letting us in on Jonathan's latest addition to his website, his monthly musings. This month he waxes lyrical on his Neo-Neo-Classicism range and mentions the Grand Tour. Grand tour! Here's the serendipity....
Today's post is an OMG gobstopper. Look at this outrageous one bedroom (yes one bedroom!) London apartment. Well-to-do young men of the 18th and 19th century travelled Europe improving their classical education and bringing home a few well chosen (dare I say pilfered) souvenirs. Think Elgin Marbles. What I'd really like to know is if this is the owner's collection or if they inherited it from their Europe trotting ancestor? My goodness I hope they have a cleaning lady! Although I could not live like this I secretly envy them this amazing collection and the passion needed to live with it. Perhaps I'll take just a soupçon of Jonathan Adler's pieces instead!
Reader Comments (11)
OOOH i bet there are lots of cool pieces there, looks super from what i can see!!
i must admit...i love it. wouldn't want to have to be the one to dust everything but what a fantastic collection.
Stunning!
wow it's certainly a gobstopper Jo! It's such a well put together piece of art, that whole apartment. but certainly not for me :P too many breakables!!! :)
While I can appreciate each piece on an individual basis, all that stuff in once space gives me a headache.
I'd like to tour through the apartment just to see each piece individually, and to experience it as a whole... but I think I'd feel like I was being stared at. :) I love this commitment though!
Though beautiful I have to agree with hairyweisenheimmer, it is too much for one space. Too much to competer for your attention in my opinion. Together like this, it just looks like a junk room for horders.
Whoa!
This gave me a flashback to my visit to the Sir John Soane's Museum in London. Take a look at www.soane.org.
I dare you to tell me that Jonathan Adler hasn't been inspired by this home!
OMG!
I think this is Peter Hone's flat from 'London Interiors'. It's changed a little since that book came out, but is essentially the same :)
Chaotically gorgeous!