Fun to see local celebrity author, Douglas Coupland's (second home - he purchased the house next door to his main home) here in Vancouver featured in the New York Times recently. Coupland an artist before he became a writer, installed many works of art throughout this original midcentury home, including his own creations.
Coupland's "Downy Fabric Softener" sits in a hall with original flagstone flooring.
Douglas installed dice on the wall near the stairwell as an ode to artist Damien Hirst's pill paintings
Coupland applies white Lego building blocks to a post upstairs in his home along with his "Target Stack" installation.
See more images at The New York Times. Photo credits: Martin Tessler for The New York Times. (via The Jealous Curator).
20 comments:
Oeh, what a good idea of those threads ,the first picture. I have to make such a thing for my new studio:)
Wow, i love that target stack installation - along with all the other things. Makes me want to go and play - in a great house like this ;)
How wonderful to have such a beauty of a house to create and play within...
oh my, love the 1st image! what a great idea to use colorful threads as popping colors!
His home is wonderful. I would love a mid-century house.
What a cool home.... it's like being in a contemporary art museum!
i want to be douglas' neighbor just to have daily views of that fabulous interior!
extravagantly superb!
Love the downy fabric softener.....fantastic pic!
Ah! I'm hoping to display my thread spools in a similar fashion in my studio, but on a much smaller scale!
Love it.
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ooh i love this!
very mid century and artistic!
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I just love who everything is not quite what it seems and gives lots of color without being overwhelming in an otherwise neutral home. I want a house like that.
Seriously inspiring. Those spools remind me of the mills in northern england.
I love how crisp and colourful it all looks! Just beautiful! And I'd like those threads hanging in my studio!
Wow, how crazy! (in a good way) I'd love to tour this home!!
What a fun house....i love the wall of spools!
FANTASTIC! i love these posts, jan! inside artists' homes... should be a new column... :)
ps i also love seeing what's in people's fridges...
Douglas Coupland on CBC Book Club :: http://j.mp/awo9QC
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