On the occasion of what would have been his 100th birthday, a look back at the photographer’s Upper East Side apartment on the year of his death.
Great RoomsAll of the apartment’s wall’s surfaces are homosote, so Richard Avedon could use them as tackboards, constantly pinning new things up. “Dick really wanted a backup,” says architect Harris Feinn, “not architecture that dominated the space visually.” On one side of the living room, a portrait of Avedon’s “In the American West” series and an Amy Arbus picture of a baby.A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman.
At the top, where he’d always be waiting to say hello effusively, was a floor-through one-bedroom, in which any semblance of decorating was merely a by-product of Avedon’s desire to have the things he loved close at hand. The place was an exercise in creative juxtaposition: Navajo blankets and a Vuillard, ivory animal-head bottle stoppers next to brass-plated sculptures of cameras, an homage to Giacometti above the toaster oven.
The apartment was a series of still-lifes — seen here as they existed — but still-lifes that almost always had a certain functionality: stacks of books he wanted to consult, a set of magnifying glasses. There was nothing overtly decorative about the arrangements. And the photographs of his own that Avedon put up tended not to be his beautiful fashion shots, but tougher portraits, like the one in the living room, from his book that effectively de-romanticized the American West.
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