Irreverent designer Jonathan Adler tells Beth Hitchcock about the need for fantasy and the myth of good taste
Designer Jonathan Adler will appear at Toronto's Interior Design Show.Whether it’s a pot for, well, pot, or a needlepoint pillow that says “Internet Famous,” Jonathan Adler’s work announces itself without apology. In Adler’s world, everyday objects are transformed by sleight of hand into covetable and collectible pieces.
I was having a magical day out on my paddleboard on Shelter Island in the Hamptons when I saw an osprey swoop down and then a seal popped its head up out of the water. I looked up and saw the most perfect, fluffy cloud and thought, “Why isn’t there a sofa shaped like a cloud to capture this moment?” So I made one. Inspiration comes when your mind is most open and you’re outside of yourself. It should feel more like a discovery than an invention.
Is social media fostering creativity or has it made global design homogenous, where the living room you admire on Instagram could either be in Seattle or Stockholm? Take my own dining room: It’s full of jolting colours and completely different styles and periods – like a big gothic Cheval mirror next to a kitsch ceramic poodle and a high-modern Knoll table – and everything is at 11. You can be basic or you can be outré, and I opt for the latter.We have to get over that. Remember that nobody cares what anybody else is doing any more. Everyone’s just looking down at their phones and barely noticing others, let alone judging them.
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