In 2009 and 2010, we visited residents of Lafayette Park with photographer Corine Vermeulen while researching our forthcoming book Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies. Vermeulen’s portraits of townhouse owners in their homes appeared in the New York Times. Here we present the corollary to that series: tenants of the Pavilion and the Lafayette Towers in their apartments. Vermeulen’s portraits are accompanied by Lana Cavar’s photos of the views from each apartment window and by excerpts from interviews — places.designobserver.com
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I love these intimate views into peoples' private living spaces. So much better than Architectural Digest or Dwell.
I'll take Daniel's unit, because from his view you see the river. I love a big view, but in the Midwest the long views to the horizon make me feel trapped, not like the distant mountain views in the West that always promise something behind them. As Bachelard quoted Supervielle: "Precisely because of too much riding and too much freedom, and of the unchanging horizon, in spite of our desperate galloping, the pampa assumed the aspect of a prison for me, a prison that was bigger than the others" Like in a dream when you never quite can reach the door to the classroom behind which the final exam is happening.
after visiting the mountains recently and then returning to FL i couldn't agree more Donna. I didn't grow up down in in flats-ville but I forgot what it is like to always see the horizon. Once I was in the mountains even when things were same distance in miles felt much farther apart...
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