Loosen up + get playful
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
I love Kelly Wearstler’s Hollywood home. Her curated, one-of-the-best-of-each-genre style makes this house a sophisticated ‘specimen garden’ of interiors. It’s fabulously statement-making, over-the-top bold. But, what captures my eye is Wearstler’s crazy playfulness and the interior’s unique personality.
I’m bothered by the perfectness of so many interiors. If a room is too sterile or too over-arranged, I want to mess something up. And I’m bored by interiors that too narrowly conform to a particular style. It’s the idiosyncratic that gives a place its personality.
So here are some interiors that offer amusing or weird or interesting elements that shake things up. What do you think? Are these rooms appealing to you?
{ All images are from OWI // Office for Word and Image, unless otherwise noted }
Art that makes you smile
Art should not match the sofa { but that yellow Beatles poster over that yellow sofa is to die for!} . FROM TOP: Retrouvius; OWI; Katie Lydon; Pierce Allen
Collections that reveal your inner weird
Discards that somehow look just right
Unusual furnishings
TOP, Pedro Friedeberg hand chair, Jamie Drake
Bright spots
CENTER: Toy Soldiers lamp, Ryan McElhinney; Rabbit Lamp, Moooi
An interesting object
CENTER IMAGE: Miguel Flores-Vianna
Wordsmithing
CENTER, Deborah Berke & Partners; BOTTOM, Domestica Architecture
I'll always put in one controversial item, it makes people talk.
Kelly Wearstler, OWI in Art, Collections, Interiors 
Reader Comments (7)
I'm live by Ms. Draper's creed. Among my most treasured possessions are a large papier mache water buffalo and a small oil painting of Groucho Marx,
Wow, lady you have really been busting out some amazing posts! This was 5 posts in one... Thank you for saying art should not match the sofa!!!!
I love them all! I have a streak of that 'shake em up' in me, too. Especially love the Amen and the I Love U words on the wall. And the odd collection of tiny action figures against that sterile white display. Great post.
What I would give for the Beatles poster!
i am all for found objects or thinking outside the box. bu i have too many collections. not sure potato smooshers are weird.
Amen. And I Love You Susieq. You know, in a friendly sorta way. I'm
head over heels smitten with this post!!! Thanks for taking the time to curate all these fabulous images. Your point rings loud and true! I wish I could just let go
and let my home seem more effortless. That really takes
talent.
I happen to have a rather large blue swordfish I scored at a local auction and
now I think he's in need of a jaunty hat! And I'm going to have to make amends to my boys after I swipe all their action figures, spray paint them gold and adhere them
to a lamp topped with a warm black shade lined in gold leaf!
You've outdone yourself with this post, Susie! Such amazing, original and interesting spaces.