Comments on: The Crisis at 'Architectural Digest' is Spewing All Over Its Cover

By: missdelite

missdelite — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:06:12 +0000

This might be of interest:
http://www.urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=7591

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:27:11 +0000

Mmm, rippling leather…

By: HonoriaGlossop

HonoriaGlossop — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:14:10 +0000

I would, too, even though I'd probably be quaking in my skank boots.

By: kenlayne

kenlayne — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:19:35 +0000

Something like three out of five books I buy are about architecture, and I'm the kind of jackass who pulls into driveways to take pictures of interesting-looking houses or buildings or (really) public restrooms. Look at these fucking park restrooms, along a bike trail in some charmless SoCal beach town! It's a cheap block toilet rectangle made elegant with a fancy arched roof! Anyway I hate that Architectural Digest something fierce. I don't hope it goes under, because magazine jobs, right? But it would be swell if all the subscribers died of ass-rickets yet were all set on auto-renew forever. (Oh and also everyone involved with those vulgar, shitty houses and apartments featured within, all those people should be drowned in rat semen.)

By: Baroness

Baroness — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:02:33 +0000

I never knew Streisand owned that "Adam and Eve" by de Lempicka. Jack Nicholson and Madonna were two of her big collectors, and competitive about it. It's a fine painting, but I'd bet Streisand has sold it by now, fickle bitch.

Someday I want a fuckpad done exactly like Faye Dunaway's pad in "Eyes of Laura Mars". Grey and taupe, conversation pit, ferns, lots of ashtrays and glassy surfaces for cutting coke. Rene Auberjenois as my butler.

By: kitten_witawip

kitten_witawip — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:43:04 +0000

I thought marketing your home to prospective buyers was the only reason for having you house in AD.

By: propertius

propertius — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:28:48 +0000

I might pay $5 for the Lempicka, if done in velvet.

The subject might also look good as tinted lard sculpture.

By: NominaStultorum

NominaStultorum — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:13:14 +0000

It's like MC Escher went to FAO Schwartz.

By: hockeymom

hockeymom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:12:49 +0000

Kelsey Grammar….AGAIN?
Also, Elton John…AGAIN? (though he does have a cool "folly" collection in Atlanta).
Are they just repurposing old features?

I will say that Paige Rense has the most seriously bitchy editor page in the business. She settles personal vendettas in print and all I can say is, don't cross her. And for sure, do not have her crew fly out to Hawaii, shoot a giant feature on your home, knowing that you are just going to turn around and use the article as a marketing tool to sell the house. Because she will go Old Testament on your ass in AD and CALL YOU OUT. Rense is GANGSTA.

By: roboloki

roboloki — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:10:08 +0000

architectural digress

By: roboloki

roboloki — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:08:13 +0000

picass o' shit?
though i believe post-moderninst shitshow is a nice summation.

By: dado

dado — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:05:29 +0000

I don't like the way Giada De Laurentiis annunciates the word "pancetta", and I'm sure I'll hate her closet, too.

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:02:16 +0000

I would love to see Boleskine House.

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:01:14 +0000

Sadly, I bet it doesn't look anything like the Korova Milk Bar.

By: HonoriaGlossop

HonoriaGlossop — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:58:53 +0000

I actually do want to see Malcolm McDowell's house, but only if I'm living in it. I know, I have issues.

By: gregorg

gregorg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:57:28 +0000

if it's not listed in the photo credits, it means they were too cheap to buy a full page.

By: gregorg

gregorg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:55:47 +0000

Whoa, I could use some words to help explain that post-modernist shitshow in Dec. 1987, because I am fresh out.

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:54:38 +0000

The only two things I find remotely appealing are the grand piano and the Lempicka.

I've never seen that house in Dec. 2004 though – anyone have an idea?

By: David

David — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:52:18 +0000

Which is more disappointing? A) that we are given proof that so many name-brand people have such horrible taste, decorators– or both. B) that editors now think that only name-band people can sell name-band products?

By: KarenUhOh

KarenUhOh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:50:59 +0000

Andy Williams? The Branson Andy Williams?

And where's Claudine Longet living these days? I'd like to know who did her target range.

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:47:58 +0000

The old "throw everything against the wall and hope something sticks with someone" strategy. As a magazine art director I feel for them.

Mary Wells??? The Motown Mary Wells??

By: CaptainFantastic

CaptainFantastic — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:42:32 +0000

I may have shared this before, but my disdain for Architectural Digest began in junior high after spending five of my hard-earned dollars for it and expecting a magazine about architecture.

By: mathnet

mathnet — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:38:25 +0000

So the concept is, they're all playing Trivial Pursuit.

By: kitten_witawip

kitten_witawip — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:37:22 +0000

Patricia Heaton? Who on earth has any interest in seeing her house? It's like they went out of their way to find the most boring people on the planet.