How do you decide what to bring with you after 27 years in the perfect apartment? DHWendyGoodman writes on having to give up her 'haven'
“The artist and interior designer Richard Lee hand-painted flowers on my bedroom wall and designed and painted the upholstered headboard.”“The artist and interior designer Richard Lee hand-painted flowers on my bedroom wall and designed and painted the upholstered headboard.”I’d always thought that I’d be carried out feet first down that polished wood stairwell with its Arts and Crafts wallpaper.
It was the longest rental of the many I have had, and it evolved slowly over time to become part of me. Decorating it, if you can call what I did decorating, was more like throwing seeds into a field and seeing what would grow. And I threw a lot of seeds around. Periodically, I would prune, giving me room for something different, and the apartment would bloom anew.
I moved in with my dachshund, David, who would protest my leaving him alone by somehow opening the closet, pulling the coats off the hangers, pawing them into a pile, and chewing holes in only the best ones. When he wasn’t making a coat nest, he was busy trying to gnaw through the bottom of the front door to escape, managing to make enough of a gap between the door and the floor that it had to be covered in metal to prevent further destruction.
My apartment became a repository for pieces of art and furniture from our family home — the Florence Knoll sofa my mother bought at auction, the coffee table with its weathered marble top — but it also harbored what seemed to be the spontaneous combustion of hundreds of books that threatened to take over the entire place.“I hung all I could over my desk, including David Hallberg’s ballet slippers, art by Ruben Toledo, photographs by Michael James O’Brien, and notes from Isaac Mizrahi.
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