I came home last week to find a notice from the marshals telling me that I can be forcibly evicted beginning on Oct. 1, 14 days from the date the notice was processed (the marshals usually take about 2-3 months in New York to get you out, but I have no intention of finding out how long it takes them). For legal reasons, I’m going to be circumspect here but I have a lot to say. First, it’s not my fault and I have been paying rent. The person from whom I have been subletting may have simply pocketed the rent. The building management is also grossly incompetent and may have lost the rent checks. The upside is that I now look like the woman in the Dorothea Lang dustbowl photo, but instead of kids I have my boulder-sized planter crying on one shoulder and an unfixable Italian postmodern lamp crying on the other. How am I going to put a roof over my babies’ heads?
So, yes, we finally did it—a homeless interior decorator (?). Parenthetically: I’m not an interior decorator because on a very basic level, I don’t care how a home is decorated. I identify as a “high class hoarder” because I care very much what stuff I personally own. This is something of a professional liability because people want me to perform some kind of HGTV routine in which I like, staple polyester jacquard onto plywood to make them a funky, affordable headboard. But I would sooner fill my housecoat with stones and walk into the river (one solution to the no-house problem).
I have spoken to a couple lawyers who were helpful. And I will find something, or will get to stay (though that seems unlikely). If I do get kicked out I will give you all a tour beforehand, like a Vogue 73 Questions video but with a marshal pounding at the door. House tours are pretty untoward (is nothing private?) but I’m down if I’m moving.
If anyone has any leads on anything downtown, do let me know. I will trade you one glass dining table.
For my darling new subscribers: Landed cost (the final cost you pay) = the hammer price (the highest bid) + the premium (a set percentage added to the hammer price that the auction house takes) + shipping (you’re always on the hook for this) + sales tax
Also, now worth repeating: I don’t get a commission on any of these sales/am not involved in any way with these auctions.
To the listings!
This would be nice as a place to take in the sunset, down by the river, which is where I live now, in my van.
Under normal circumstances, I would buy this but I don’t have space in the van. I like the little cross bar at the base and how it matches back to the thin vertical support. Very nice and will go for cheap.
This could be helpful when I need some privacy, down by the river (I swear I’m almost done). The silver pieces are actually a later addition someone made as a custom support. It gives the whole thing some real height. If I had the space . . .
This is not wired, so candles only. But still a great piece.
The guys at Catalog Projects are back. These chairs are Corian, which is a synthetic stone material. They are cool!
This porcelain iris is really big, like 8.5” (don’t start). From Royal Worcester which is apparently the oldest UK porcelain manufacturer still in business. This is the best auction of the week and there are some real contenders. It’s all 1860-1910 and the level of craft is just amazing, also fun to see how modernism emerges. I want it all!
Same auction. Great table if you live in an apartment. Someone?
Another fun action. There are three of these and I think they’d be cool as like little tables (they’re 14” high so could work).
Special shout-outs to friends-of-the-stack Gabriel and Mara Held, grandson and daughter of Al Held (1928-2005). I hope this sells for a million bucks! Regardless of what the secondary market has to say, I will say that the older I get and the more I see, the more I appreciate his work. This one has such a fabulous rhythm. Investment piece.
Kind of fun next to the Al Held. Great quilt!
May the hammer fall ever in your favor!