tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post4680034184887089598..comments2024-03-19T02:34:30.151-04:00Comments on The Blue Remembered Hills™: LuminousBluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-84322464123112498422010-05-25T18:33:02.460-04:002010-05-25T18:33:02.460-04:00My Notting Hill, I've just caught up with your...My Notting Hill, I've just caught up with your comment so my apologies for answering earlier. I had that Conran book and let it go years ago. I'm glad I was able to provide you with more photos - it is a beautiful apartment still after all these years.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-68986990743841099362010-05-24T08:26:01.977-04:002010-05-24T08:26:01.977-04:00I was thrilled to come across your post. 22 years ...I was thrilled to come across your post. 22 years ago I bought a book w/the first image on the cover but had never seen other photos from the apartment. I've posted about it on my blog - thank you for "filling in the blanks" after all these years.My Notting Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03029931096995642571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-68363503014921295612010-03-31T09:42:31.224-04:002010-03-31T09:42:31.224-04:00Mr Darling, thank you. Yes, I saw and must say, lo...Mr Darling, thank you. Yes, I saw and must say, loved, the photos of Bruce Budd's apartment in WoI. Terrific place! Apropos Mr Mendel, there is a house/apartment designed by him in recent Archtictural Digest that is disappointing, especially the furniture choices. However, someone else could be blown away, as it were.<br /><br />Columnist, thank you for your kind comment.As I say, this is my preference, but I'm of that promiscuous generation that would entertain something entirely different for the sake of amusement and diversion. <br /><br />Ms Thorne, thank you also for your kind comment.<br /><br />Janet, the right photographer can make all the difference and they are pretty rare I sometimes feel. <br /><br />Little Augury, what surprises me the most about the lastest Shelton, Mindel & Associates' work is the use of lightweight, spikily leggy furniture from the fifties and sixties. I realize that can be a client choice and not the architect's, and that furniture is certainly being sought after for aesthetic and investment reasons, but I see a separation between the architecture and the furnishings it contains. Now, that is my opinion and there are many who would disagree and rightly so.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-29909243819501128512010-03-31T02:14:03.476-04:002010-03-31T02:14:03.476-04:00This is real beauty.This is real beauty.gésbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094108253356167918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-55122658913451655792010-03-30T23:31:41.825-04:002010-03-30T23:31:41.825-04:00Though I do find this interior beautiful- Lee Mind...Though I do find this interior beautiful- Lee Mindel, as Reggie Darling notes-has moved on to strict modernism-and I do not personally care for that at all. I do think though that as long as an interior is an honest reflection of what the owner wants, wants to be- or rarely-embodies, I for one can find some redemption in it. From here-I would leap to Bill Blass' NY apartment, preferred. pgtP.Gaye Tapp at Little Auguryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15115534755711063462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-69683125158176630612010-03-30T10:48:41.759-04:002010-03-30T10:48:41.759-04:00It takes a bit of genius to capture light like tha...It takes a bit of genius to capture light like that and make it a feature of the interior.Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04348849115235899670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-1050062932403549282010-03-30T04:01:19.808-04:002010-03-30T04:01:19.808-04:00Not sure what's more breathtaking, the words o...Not sure what's more breathtaking, the words or the pictures. The words, I think now. The pictures dance in accord. Glorious, all of it.Victoria Thornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14464329551302212978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-67721250899500871132010-03-30T00:39:08.642-04:002010-03-30T00:39:08.642-04:00Now I see that Mr Mindel's apartment encapsula...Now I see that Mr Mindel's apartment encapsulated what I have come to realize is a definite preference of mine - a clear mixing of classicism and modernism.<br /><br />...and mine too. Brilliantly written paragraph encapsulating this sentence! His work is indeed wonderfully fresh, and it hasn't dated at all.columnisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764365428633038329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-57687384898618942042010-03-29T22:41:44.540-04:002010-03-29T22:41:44.540-04:00Yes, it is a great bachelor pad! But the apartmen...Yes, it is a great bachelor pad! But the apartments in this University Place building that do not have the three arched windows in the Living Room have a colossal window with a French door to a balcony. I would prefer that unit. And we could be neighbors!JohnTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-32350464817694812302010-03-29T22:41:44.541-04:002010-03-29T22:41:44.541-04:00I vividly remember the first time I saw these phot...I vividly remember the first time I saw these photographs. I was stunned by the beauty of this apartment. I clipped it and pasted it in a scrap book, where it joined the pages I saved from a NY Times magazine story on his house on Long Island. I only recently came across those clippings again after many years when I opened up my scrapbooks for the first time in over a decade. Speaking of jaw dropping apartments, did you see Bruce Budd's in WOI this month? Perfection, and in my view through the same lense as Lee Mindel's apartment of so many years ago. Incidentally, while LM's current abode is strictly modernist, it is beautiful indeed. Not Reggie's cup of tea, perhaps, but certainly worth reckoning with.Reggie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.com