Talk is Cheap: Restoration Hardware
My appearance on the Talk is Cheap podcast talking about Restoration Hardware and my Restoration Reader with visual references and annotations...
Talk is Cheap hosted by Talk Magazine
Download the Restoration Reader (PDF), compiled by Sally Thurer, 2019
3:40 Oficina Design Fundraiser
8:43 Aaron Swartz
10:05 Boot Boyz Biz Collaboration
10:45 Mind map that I sent to BBB of Tonya Harding, Kabel & Balenciaga
11:40 Claes Oldenburg’s “Dollar Store”
16:50 The Art of Conservation, Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, 2016
21:50 The Cloud Sofa
22:20 Restoration Hardware Galleries & Restaurants
22:45 Conveying power and wealth with scale
26:50 Preserved mural
27:35 Gutting the building
33:25 Taking inspiration from historical research
34:45 Valuing “harmony” above history
38:50 Different people have different values
41:00 Atlantic ave Trader Joes
42:30 Tsubi/Ksubi Jeans patched up floor
44:05 Sheet glass on Elizabeth 2007 vs. 2009
44:45 Comme des Garçons “stuff”
45:09: Preservation is Overtaking Us, Rem Koolhaas, 2004
46:15 The Art of Conservation, Ben Lerner, 2016
49:09 Disnified version of CBGBs
49:20 New York nostalgia in general…
50:30 The building that looks like a Samsung stereo system
51:25 The New Whitney, The Met Breuer and The New MoMA
52:38 The impeccable graphic design at The Shed
54:40 Architecture that looks like renderings
55:18 Fuck The Vessel, Kate Wagner, 2019
56:50 The historical aesthetic of RH “asshole furniture”
59:20 Desaturated color and gender performance in RH Teen
1:01:45 Dinner with Marc and Crate & Barrel
1:05:53 Met Breuer Renovation
1:11:57 Domino Park
1:13:30 Brooklyn Bridge Park
1:17:30 William Morris
1:19:45 Notre-Dame de Paris
1:20:48 Preservation is Overtaking Us, Rem Koolhaas, 2004
1:21:45 In The Year 2000
1:22:00 Irreplaceable Artifacts
1:25:35 Josh Kline Cost of Living (Aleyda) 2014
1:31:00 Letting go of control…