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This reminds me of Gunter Sachs‘ apartment in St Moritz which Roy Lichtenstein decorated, and Cesar Manriques lava bubble house on Lanzarote, and Salvador Dalis

by mitjam 2y ago

This reminds me of Gunter Sachs‘ apartment in St Moritz which Roy Lichtenstein decorated, and Cesar Manriques lava bubble house on Lanzarote, and Salvador Dalis beach house in Portlligat. I think living in art is amazing and livable art worth preserving. If you have a chance, you can visit them, unfortunately not Gunter Sachs‘ apartment.

jajko 2y ago
Don't know the others but we visited Cesar Manriques' place 2 weeks ago and we all enjoyed it very much, including small kids (not in theme park way just to be clear). Yeah its not visit of classics in Louvre but that guy sure knew how to build artistically pleasing gardens and surroundings, the design just 'clicked' with all of us immediately.
- itronitron 2y ago
  related >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens
itronitron 2y ago
I wonder if the artist renting the apartment can get their decoration acknowledged as an 'improvement' to the apartment in which case they could require the next tenant (or property owner) to pay the artist some amount when signing the rental contract (in some EU countries at least.)
- psd1 2y ago
  That's not a thing in the UK. The bulk of tenancies here are ASTs, which make most sense over a period of a few years (rather than decades). Our society is predicated on buying your own home while you're young, so a culture of tenancies where the tenant owns the fixtures and fittings doesn't really make sense here.
  - notahacker 2y ago
    Also the artist is dead, his heirs were far more interested in preserving it than extracting money from it, the art is of the type a landlord is more likely to cover with white gloss paint than market as an enhancement, and an apartment in Birkenhead now apparently destined to be a community creative studio probably had very little value both before and after the outsider art was added.

by mitjam 2y ago

jajko 2y ago

Don't know the others but we visited Cesar Manriques' place 2 weeks ago and we all enjoyed it very much, including small kids (not in theme park way just to be clear). Yeah its not visit of classics in Louvre but that guy sure knew how to build artistically pleasing gardens and surroundings, the design just 'clicked' with all of us immediately.

itronitron 2y ago
related >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens

itronitron 2y ago

I wonder if the artist renting the apartment can get their decoration acknowledged as an 'improvement' to the apartment in which case they could require the next tenant (or property owner) to pay the artist some amount when signing the rental contract (in some EU countries at least.)

psd1 2y ago
That's not a thing in the UK. The bulk of tenancies here are ASTs, which make most sense over a period of a few years (rather than decades). Our society is predicated on buying your own home while you're young, so a culture of tenancies where the tenant owns the fixtures and fittings doesn't really make sense here.
- notahacker 2y ago
  Also the artist is dead, his heirs were far more interested in preserving it than extracting money from it, the art is of the type a landlord is more likely to cover with white gloss paint than market as an enhancement, and an apartment in Birkenhead now apparently destined to be a community creative studio probably had very little value both before and after the outsider art was added.