Take an Old Master to Your Next Picnic (2011/12/13)
   How did you get interested in design. I have always been a person who buys shelter magazines. But I had no knowledge whatsoever. This only really emerged when I bought my first Spanish home. Well, actually, I bought a Lloyd Wright first. I bought the Ramon Novarro home in the Hollywood Hills. If you have a family, it is not as easy to live in a Lloyd Wright house. They are beautiful. But they have very, very small bedrooms.
   That’s not to say a family can’t live there, for God’s sake. It would be a great pleasure to live there. Which I did enjoy. But I’m a person who likes to keep moving. It’s a good excuse: “Well, I have a family now. I better get a Spanish home.” Where are you living these days? Right now, I don’t have a home. I’m renting. But I’m going to buy a piece of land and build once in my life. I don’t know if I can do it, but I’m going to try. I’m afraid of spaces that are blank. Like a lot of novice types who are aficionados of architecture, once I see a building I understand what I can do with it. But to just see raw space is terrifying.
   What style are you considering? There’s this American look which I think comes out of this factory-barn idea. The materials that are used are the kinds I find very appealing. I love cement. I love wood. I love shingle. I love casement windows. I’m now in love with shake roofs. I’m interested in roofs because they’re the most undervalued yet beautiful part of a home.
   This summer, you might be surprised by the faces staring back from the picnic blanket. The British company Whitbread Wilkinson has created a line of melamine plates featuring portraits from the National Gallery in London — among them, a platter depicting a detail from “The Emperor Napoleon I,” by Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet ; a dinner plate with “Portrait of a Man” by Antonello da Messina; and a side plate with one of the pair shown in “The Ambassadors” by Hans Holbein the Younger . And more faces are coming soon. I think it’s great they’re still partying, 500 years later,” said Jackie Piper, one of the company’s owners. But “we’ve got to grow the gang.”
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