tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post7474934131848088460..comments2023-11-05T01:14:14.295-07:00Comments on The Real Estalker: Your Mama Hears...Your Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14600002907755148264noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-17956507817672913992012-11-06T19:05:03.235-08:002012-11-06T19:05:03.235-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-49124034343953034642012-10-25T14:26:20.856-07:002012-10-25T14:26:20.856-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-4019278051736551012012-10-17T15:53:41.062-07:002012-10-17T15:53:41.062-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-78457242141391159152010-10-31T10:22:19.821-07:002010-10-31T10:22:19.821-07:00After Mr. Broccoli passed away in 1996, Mrs. Brocc...After Mr. Broccoli passed away in 1996, Mrs. Broccoli stayed in the house until she passed away in 2004. The children kept the house until Kelly bought it in 2005. Not sure where you got the idea that it was being leased??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-74205406629348302512010-03-05T09:24:01.898-08:002010-03-05T09:24:01.898-08:00I love that pool house!I love that pool house!Clara Bownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-57049484949392904872010-03-02T15:15:49.722-08:002010-03-02T15:15:49.722-08:00The emperor has no clothes, right? Her designs ar...The emperor has no clothes, right? Her designs are ghastly and vertigo-inducing. Of course, it's her own home and we should all decorate our houses in any way that pleases us. But why anyone pays her to design is a mystery.<br />Enjoyed your article, Mama you witty thing, as usual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-27154848144115265872010-03-01T09:47:19.818-08:002010-03-01T09:47:19.818-08:00Great read Mama. As for the decor, I love it.
...Great read Mama. As for the decor, I love it. <br /><br />Just about every week Mama posts some mansion where every square inch is done in various shades of beige in a hideous permutation of a faux Tuscan villa. And the in the comments page, all the children complain, complain, complain how boring it is, no imagination, how blah, etc.<br /><br />Well here's one that isn't beige and you guys are <i>still</i> bitching. Obviously not for everyone, but wow, for me its a wonderfully done house inside and out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-27331509907935351042010-03-01T09:31:07.098-08:002010-03-01T09:31:07.098-08:00Tiaras off to Mama! One of my favorite Real Estalk...Tiaras off to Mama! One of my favorite Real Estalker posts of all time. The Proustian command of detail, nuance -- combined with the ability to navigate the history and day-kor without toppling into the hedges -- just leave this reader bowed and breathless. This story was the lips of everyone I spoke to this weekend -- every one who's anyone, that is, LOL. <br /><br />PS: the comments by Final Presentation and Regina Joi get my penultimate compliment: I have nothing left to add to your excellent insights. Bravo! Brava!Carla Ridgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-31779544889223864112010-03-01T09:01:23.050-08:002010-03-01T09:01:23.050-08:00DESIGN CLUB APPLICATION:
FORMER ANTIQUES DEALER
...DESIGN CLUB APPLICATION: <br /><br />FORMER ANTIQUES DEALER<br /><br />RESTORER OF SEVERAL HOMES AND GARDENS <br /><br />HOMES PHOTOGRAPHED BY FABLED ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHERS<br /><br />HOMES PUBLISHED IN SEVERAL BOOKS AND MAGAZINES<br /><br />***********************************<br /> BOARD MEMBERS ONLY:<br /><br />These above-mentioned 'Feathers in Cap', DO allow this person to speak on the Design Club.<br /><br />Allow once in a while, for the above candidate is a confirmed Recluse or Loose Wreck as Doris Duke once quoted.<br /><br />***********************************<br /> NOTE<br /><br />Several years ago, GARY WINNICK paid $96 million for CASA ENCANTADA...HILLCREST is at least half of that, perhaps more than half...this is the ONLY way to preserve this fabulous piece of architectural history in Beverly Hills/Hollywood historical chapter from a billionaire who is from another country that does not respect OUR history here in Southern California...a few jingles in the pocket DOES NOT give license to destroy our history of Architecture as so much has gone the sad way of demolition for the anothers skewed vision of what 'ARRIVISTE' means!Regina Joinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-38093384744879628112010-03-01T08:20:29.659-08:002010-03-01T08:20:29.659-08:00Absolutely hideous decor.Absolutely hideous decor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-27270972722065214132010-03-01T06:54:43.596-08:002010-03-01T06:54:43.596-08:00http://www.hillcrestestate.com/http://www.hillcrestestate.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-50601953503516581572010-03-01T04:56:53.616-08:002010-03-01T04:56:53.616-08:00This is my ideal house. So expensive, yet the best...This is my ideal house. So expensive, yet the best place for rest.gihhttp://get-infoz.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-75903637354783443802010-02-28T23:07:01.811-08:002010-02-28T23:07:01.811-08:00Sorry; I've never thought she had any talent a...Sorry; I've never thought she had any talent as a decorator. Just derivative. And cold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-20685240766336174162010-02-28T20:33:30.928-08:002010-02-28T20:33:30.928-08:00Where's Tony Montana?Where's Tony Montana?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-12083034077106374922010-02-28T19:43:20.257-08:002010-02-28T19:43:20.257-08:00Regina Joi; I enjoyed your comments, but remember....Regina Joi; I enjoyed your comments, but remember..... the first rule of Design Club..........don't talk about Design Club............StPaulSnowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590800489107567022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-31604163254925683272010-02-28T18:04:46.863-08:002010-02-28T18:04:46.863-08:00Don't. Do. Acid. In. This. House.Don't. Do. Acid. In. This. House.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-50983551121692725712010-02-28T18:01:10.291-08:002010-02-28T18:01:10.291-08:00What does straight or gay have to do with the INTE...What does straight or gay have to do with the INTERIOR DESIGN of a home...why disgrace an ARTFORM with that silly question, must it always come back to what goes on behind closed doors? <br /><br />This fine Hollywood Regency home was designed by a MASTER architect, was most likely filled with T.H.ROBSJOHN-GIBBONS pieces like the famed 'Casa Encantada' by the same architect and afore mentioned interior designer - IT shows how much homework IS NEEDED when one is holding precious history in the palm of their hand...homage to the past and a vision of now is the recipe to a GREAT AND TIMELESS stage for lives to be lived in.<br /><br />What is wrong with Jean Michel Frank, a Ming altar table or two, a few Eugene Berman and Salvador Dali Paintings, a Louis XVI gilt settee upholstered in Tiger Velvet and Billy Haines swivel Seniah chairs with Hostess Elbow chairs... add some Cecil Beaton photographs blown up, or better yet, Polidori photos of Versailles. <br /><br />Chintz CAN be used in restrained colors and patterns, I've seen it! What is wrong with just using a wonderful plain white PAINT in the stairway hall considering that the IRONWORK is divine and speaks for itself. I do not think the idea of that present pattern is bad, but not in the whole of THAT room, the jarring clash is just too too for the eyes and the INITIATED to accept, perhaps this was an experiment for a new Wallpaper design, but shrink it for ONE wall ala Twombly in a Dressing room or better yet, the powder room!<br /><br />What is wrong with others who critique the obvious? I am all for design genius, but let us remember that 'too much is not a good thing', and that is FIRST RULE!<br /><br />I am proud that she has taken on young Hollywood and is giving shape to those that do not know, I know of one commission that is using a Master Ceramicist, but lets give credit where credit is due...to the shop owners who ALL create and sell those inspiring interiors that so MANY decorators pillage off of, and to those who have passed into the Great School of Interior Design Heaven that have left us what was wrought by master hands and designs...Ruhlmann, Lalanne, Nakashima, and Eileen Gray.<br /><br />Mixing in the Modernists with the Louis XIV-XVI IS THE acquired taste of the knowing ~ Billy Haines, Paul Lazlo and even Tony Duquette did so, all varying from restrained minimalism to-over-the top cuckoo...but it worked. In this case, it does not!<br /><br />Open your mind, veer off of the path, light the lantern...and GROW!<br />I still remember when she was just off of Beverly in a little house by an alley with a tiny-teeny garden of crushed glass and little cafe table for 2.<br /><br />She has come far and will go further, but please do not forgot those that have gone before and the classic recipe of success- CELEBRATE ALL DESIGN WITH A MODICUM OF RESTRAINT AND ELEGANCE.Regina Joinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-8348448377599186572010-02-28T08:18:42.822-08:002010-02-28T08:18:42.822-08:00Can anyone name a truly great straight interior de...Can anyone name a truly great straight interior designer..........other than Martha Stewart. My bruising is almost gone!Svetlana Scatopovanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-75701720684703094682010-02-28T07:15:29.263-08:002010-02-28T07:15:29.263-08:00with all due respect, but aren't konstantin, b...with all due respect, but aren't konstantin, baas and dominio aren't reall "decorators" though are they? i'm not sassing i'm just not aware of any of there interiors.<br /><br />and saladino IS great but what if you don't want something so traditional? <br /><br />i think steven sclaroff if good too a bit wacky with the trad. but...<br /><br />i'm not saying wearstler is the end all be all and i do think that you're right in that she's a marketer and does not truly have her own voice (few do really), but someone who is not a decorator can not do what she does and what she does is create over the top environments. she's more a set decorator sort of designer in the tradition of duquette. shes NOT duquette, but that's what she's doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-46167605917922836862010-02-28T00:59:12.339-08:002010-02-28T00:59:12.339-08:00In defense of Unge (full disclosure: we are real-l...In defense of Unge (full disclosure: we are real-life homosexual lovers), when you're fluent in the work of the great designers - as Your Mama clearly is - Mongiardino, Hicks, Ruhlmann, Albini, Mollino, Rudolph, et. al., it's hard to get behind a magpie like Wearstler. However successful she may be, the contents of these interiors look like so many items at JF Chen Loft waiting to be bought and carted off to more sympathetic surroundings. <br /><br />Surely there is money in the States to support the work of great, living masters such as Jacques Grange, Gae Aulenti, or Luigi Caccia Dominioni (or why not commission genuinely cool kids like Maarten Baas or Konstantin Grcic to design your powder room?). Instead, status-seeking high rollers make do with this sort of secondhand, "madcap" and "irreverent" work. I, for one, don't really mind this Vegas-y phase of Wearstler's, but it's doubtful that she will ever develop a wholly original, authentic vocabulary (I mean, even someone like John Saladino is nothing if not true to a singular but evolving vision). Wearstler's a marketing genius, not a designer, and she knows what she's doing.final presentationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11583722096460300687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-25304127850538632212010-02-27T21:36:33.763-08:002010-02-27T21:36:33.763-08:00Oh please. All you naysayers. Nothing but throwing...Oh please. All you naysayers. Nothing but throwing shade on this Wearstler chick but not one of you offers up your own idea or version of a decorator doing good stuff.<br /><br />my guess is you're all a bunch of mario buatta chintz queens who can't stand anything that doesn't look like it came out of grandmas house. either that you you actually like those "neutral" messes in all the faux tuscan terrors that dot the american suburbsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-61524753411920223342010-02-27T21:21:48.342-08:002010-02-27T21:21:48.342-08:00interior decorator: a highly paid individual who h...interior decorator: a highly paid individual who has the inate shrewdness to fool extremely wealthy and gullible people into believing there is insight, genius, and skill when describing the color black as either "onyx","obsidian" or "midnight".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-39701604766854737002010-02-27T20:19:38.947-08:002010-02-27T20:19:38.947-08:00OMG, I would absolutely barf everytime I had to wa...OMG, I would absolutely barf everytime I had to walk through any of these rooms--this might quite possibly be the grossest interior Mama has posted so far. Please don't tell me people really pay this Kelly Wearstler money to "design" their homes!!!???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-64090525816023169602010-02-27T14:18:20.950-08:002010-02-27T14:18:20.950-08:00fair enough unge, but if this is just another kind...fair enough unge, but if this is just another kind of ugly, what interior designers working now do you like?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7179311615101890268.post-60892072927419627932010-02-27T14:02:16.345-08:002010-02-27T14:02:16.345-08:00oh my! My Mama is keeping it RE-AL!
ps. there are...oh my! My Mama is keeping it RE-AL!<br />ps. there are many types of ugly in the world. we don't need to replace one type with another and say its good because its not as ugly as the other ugly. maybe they are ugly in different ways, but nonetheless still ugly. oh and just because something provokes love or hatred doesn't mean its good also. In that case Hitler would be considered an amazing person. Also if you make a lot of money and are successful doesn't mean you are doing something right. Look at all the wall street execs who floated to safety after the collapse with their golden parachutes. The way our world defines success may not always be what is actually good and right in this world.Ungehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10928707124366192459noreply@blogger.com