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The family of Collection, Williamsburg, NY

In the Brooklyn loft of Paige Stevenson together with Ahnika Meyer, the garden is off the kitchen.

The House of Collection indoor Garden

The House of collection inwards Williamsburg, NY is the habitation of Paige Stevenson together with her partner Ahnika Delirium. Such a beautiful interesting habitation deserves an explanation hence hither is component of an interview from May 2011 from The New York Times....

"Paige Stevenson moved every few years when she was a pocket-sized inwards the 1970s, living, amid other places, inwards a tepee on a commune inwards Mendocino County, Calif.; on a caprine animal farm close the commune; together with inwards a Victorian family inwards San Francisco alongside her father, stepmother together with a coterie of drag performers. In her adult life, she has chosen something far less nomadic: a loft inwards Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she has been since 1989. “I don’t e'er select plans to actually last elsewhere,” Ms. Stevenson said. 

The apartment, which she shares alongside her partner, Ahnika Meyer, 30, is a 21st-century cabinet of curiosities inwards the shape of a 2,000-square-foot loft. They telephone vociferation upward it the House of Collection, every bit it is filled alongside materials — some of it eccentric, much of it old together with almost all of it scavenged, from remote sites similar steel mills close Pittsburgh together with others every bit unopen every bit the curb outside.

“Most of the things I decorate alongside are considered garbage,” said Ms. Stevenson, 43, a bookkeeper for nonprofit organizations. “Things that would deteriorate if I didn’t selection them upward together with preserve them.”

The attention alongside which those objects are selected together with arranged is what keeps the House of Collection on this side of chaos. Ms. Meyer said, “All of this materials is an installation.”

Dozens of rusted farm tools together with industrial artifacts, for instance, are displayed salon-style inwards the living room, grouped yesteryear shape or component on a white wall of painted cinder block. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 moo-cow skull together with other bones, picked upward inwards Montana yesteryear Ms. Stevenson’s parents, are arranged on some other wall that is covered inwards the ornate pressed mail away mutual inwards Brooklyn restaurants. An early on 20th-century plow, institute inwards a relieve yard, hangs overhead.

“To some people this would last ugly,” Ms. Meyer said. “But to other people, this is sort of earthy together with lush.”

The couple’s decisions close what to collect are to a greater extent than deliberate than they mightiness seem. “It’s an aesthetic decision,” Ms. Stevenson said. “If it appeals to my oculus or my mind, it’s a keeper.” They revel inwards giving a habitation to unloved objects, possessions that were in i trial love to person together with hence discarded.

An indoor garden area, centered to a greater extent than or less a fraying wicker couch, brings greenish to a infinite filled alongside the reds together with browns of Oriental rugs together with rusty mechanical parts. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 trove of plants, close seventy or so, sits on an elevated platform beside the windows, together with vines wend their agency through a dangling fishing cyberspace that Ms. Stevenson institute inwards Nova Scotia. Even bouquets of dead flowers, however inwards their vases together with grouped on a cabinet, select a identify inwards the apartment. “To me, they however select beauty,” Ms. Stevenson said."

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