Speaker 1: Hi and welcome to the House of Lou podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Veronica Theodoro. Today, I'm talking to Saint Louis
Speaker 1: based artist Katherine Earnhardt. I was introduced to Katherine about
Speaker 1: three years ago by the architect Anne Wimsatt and called
Speaker 1: one day asking to see if I was interested in
Speaker 1: taking a look at one of her latest projects in midtown,
Speaker 1: Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: And of course, I said, yes, Anne was renovating an
Speaker 1: art studio for her client, a New York artist with
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Roots who had recently moved back home to
Speaker 1: be closer to her parents. We made a plan for
Speaker 1: me to visit and eventually we wrote about Katherine's art
Speaker 1: studio for the magazine. Around that time, Katherine started posting
Speaker 1: pictures of her new house on Instagram, which immediately piqued
Speaker 1: my curiosity. And later that house was featured in a
Speaker 1: story in Tea magazine for the New York Times. She's
Speaker 1: here today to talk to us about the years long
Speaker 1: renovation and interior design which highlights the work of the
Speaker 1: Memphis group. An Italian
Speaker 1: design collective founded in 1980.
Speaker 2: This episode of House of Loo is brought to you
Speaker 2: by Saint Louis Art Museum.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of ground to cover with Catherine.
Speaker 1: But before we get started, I wanna tell you a
Speaker 1: little bit about what's been on my radar of late.
Speaker 1: How many of you buy books instead of checking them
Speaker 1: out of the library?
Speaker 1: I'm all for supporting local booksellers. But last week I
Speaker 1: visited my local library branch Schlafly in the central west
Speaker 1: end for the first time in years. And it made
Speaker 1: me wonder why I had ever stopped going there in
Speaker 1: the first place. Maybe it was during the COVID years.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. But what I do know is that
Speaker 1: I have way too many books at home and not
Speaker 1: enough shelves to hold them.
Speaker 1: So, despite what tiktok says about bookshelf wealth over the weekend,
Speaker 1: I filled two boxes worth of books that I need
Speaker 1: to either donate or sell. So I decided it was
Speaker 1: time to renew my library card, which was super easy
Speaker 1: to do online. I simply emailed a picture of a
Speaker 1: photo ID with my current mailing address and with
Speaker 1: than an hour it was activated. There's even curbside pickup. Now.
Speaker 1: At least that's the case at the Schlafly branch. It's
Speaker 1: super convenient. All you do is drive up to the library,
Speaker 1: you call a specific number that they give you and
Speaker 1: someone runs out and delivers the book to your car.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'd gone this long without using the library.
Speaker 1: And speaking of how we spend our time,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of time to volunteer between
Speaker 1: work and after school activities. But I do help support
Speaker 1: the art exhibits at my children's school. That's how I
Speaker 1: recently discovered the work of local artist, Aaron Elliott. Aaron
Speaker 1: creates beautiful detailed embroidered portraits on men's cotton shirting that
Speaker 1: he decorates with B
Speaker 1: needs ribbon, sequins and glitter. He has a background in
Speaker 1: ceramics from Parsons in L A and a master's degree
Speaker 1: from Washington University. His work is so cool and unique
Speaker 1: and I just had to buy one for my office.
Speaker 1: You can see his collection on Instagram at Michael Aaron mcallister.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Dive into the world of renowned artist, Henri Matisse as
Speaker 2: his masterpieces come alive to examine the significance of the
Speaker 2: sea through paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and more on view
Speaker 2: through May 12th at the Saint Louis Art Museum. This
Speaker 2: ground
Speaker 2: breaking exhibition explores matisse's lifelong fascination beneath the waves, tracing
Speaker 2: his travels across his career, visit slam.org/exhibitions to get your
Speaker 2: tickets and explore the global influences that shaped matisse's art.
Speaker 1: And now on to my interview with Catherine Catherine Bernhardt
Speaker 1: is known for her colorful paintings of everyday objects and
Speaker 1: icons that she creates in her Saint Louis studio and
Speaker 1: ships to buyers around the world.
Speaker 1: Today, we're talking to Catherine about her central west end
Speaker 1: house designed by the ST Louis architect Gary Glenn.
Speaker 1: It's a modern L shaped house on a street known
Speaker 1: for its turn of the century brick Mansions. Catherine is
Speaker 1: here to tell us all about the renovation and the
Speaker 1: interior design. I'm thrilled to welcome Catherine to the podcast. Hi, Catherine.
Speaker 1: It's so good to see you. Hi, the last time
Speaker 1: I saw you was at your birthday party last month.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun
Speaker 1: at your house. Um It was wonderful to be there.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the invite. You had a terrific turnout.
Speaker 1: And what was interesting to me about the party itself
Speaker 1: was that we were all congregated in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Did you notice? Yeah, everyone always does. I think the
Speaker 1: kitchen's uh a good place to start. Can you tell
Speaker 1: me a little bit about the look? Ok. The look
Speaker 1: of the kitchen. Well, I painted it turquoise blue like
Speaker 1: my mom's kitchen. So I grew up with a turquoise
Speaker 1: kitchen and I always thought that was amazing. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind to be turquoise too. Um The original kitchen
Speaker 1: did not look like that. It was like pure black
Speaker 1: and white and postmodern and like totally futuristic and awesome.
Speaker 1: And then, so
Speaker 1: the kitchen now is the last guy's renovation just painted
Speaker 1: turquoise and then I recreated the round tubular hood that
Speaker 1: was there originally and we should say that the house
Speaker 1: was built in 1984 1986 1986. 0, ok. My bad
Speaker 1: um by and the architect was Gary Glenn. How did
Speaker 1: you become familiar with the house? And were you looking
Speaker 1: to buy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I always saw that house growing up. So
Speaker 1: in 86 I guess I was like 10. So I
Speaker 1: would always see that house driving up and down Lyndal
Speaker 1: and just think it was just the most awesome house
Speaker 1: I ever saw. Couldn't believe it. How cool is that house?
Speaker 1: Like love it. Always like looking at it. I always
Speaker 1: thought it was like
Speaker 1: rectangular but it's not, it's l shape. Um Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was looking for a house and I had found this
Speaker 1: other house. Then I found out that the basement was collapsing.
Speaker 1: So I didn't get it. And then I googled the
Speaker 1: Lyndal house kind of as a joke, see if it
Speaker 1: was available and it was, oh my God. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my God, I have to get it.
Speaker 1: And so we should, we should preface this by saying
Speaker 1: you grew up in Clayton, right? Yeah. OK. And you
Speaker 1: were living in New York and you moved back to
Speaker 1: Saint Louis in late 2019. Yeah, 2020 2020 when COVID
Speaker 1: hit New York. Ok. Ok. And so how easy was
Speaker 1: it for you to attain the house? I mean, was
Speaker 1: it pretty quick sale or
Speaker 1: not easy? Went to see the house, saw the house,
Speaker 1: there'd be one deal this day, then there'd be a
Speaker 1: different deal the next week. Then he wasn't selling then
Speaker 1: uh only, it was only the house. Then the other
Speaker 1: yard was a different price. And you had to buy both? Oh,
Speaker 1: or do you just want one? Oh, I'm not selling
Speaker 1: it anymore. Oh. And then I gave up and I
Speaker 1: was like, whatever I'm done. And then he called back, like,
Speaker 1: two months later and he's like, do you still want
Speaker 1: the house?
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah. Oh, my God. Incredible. Incredible. So,
Speaker 1: you moved in and you decided I didn't move in
Speaker 1: for like, a year and a half. But when did
Speaker 1: you decide to renovate or when did you start that process?
Speaker 1: Like the minute I bought it, I started renovating and what, what,
Speaker 1: what was the scope of that renovation?
Speaker 1: Uh ripping out all the floors, ripping out all the bars,
Speaker 1: ripping out all the slate, ripping out all the gray tile,
Speaker 1: repainting the entire house white uh pouring all terrazzo floors
Speaker 1: retiling everything so kind of superficial but also like a
Speaker 1: lot of work, but just painting the house took like
Speaker 1: five months.
Speaker 1: Um And why did it take five months? Just the oh,
Speaker 1: inside and outside? Just the amount of walls because it
Speaker 1: was dark gray and the entire inside was beige and
Speaker 1: dark gray. So painting it white, several layers of white
Speaker 1: took five months and the Torazo floors. I thought that
Speaker 1: was pretty fast. Took about five months. Were you working
Speaker 1: alone or were you work? Did you work with someone
Speaker 1: like someone to help you with the material selection and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing?
Speaker 1: Um no, like I picked everything so like lime painting,
Speaker 1: painted the house. I told them, you know, I want
Speaker 1: extra white here and then glossy on the doors or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then
Speaker 1: Missouri Terrazzo is awesome. They're located on the hill. They've
Speaker 1: been there like 100 years so they know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: So I just, and they're always like, we can do
Speaker 1: whatever you want. So you love people like that. So
Speaker 1: I just gave them the designs and some of the
Speaker 1: designs in the floor are based off of like Memphis
Speaker 1: uh designs that I found in like a Memphis Milano book.
Speaker 1: So they like made um
Speaker 1: I gave them a drawing and they made it out
Speaker 1: of metal basically and then put it on the floor
Speaker 1: and then it's all hand poured and hand,
Speaker 1: pour it in there and then it's like uh so
Speaker 1: ground in three different grinders. Yeah, it's, it's so cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the floors are awesome when you were thinking about the
Speaker 1: house and the renovation.
Speaker 1: Where did you come up with your ideas? Oh, so
Speaker 1: I went to the history museum and I researched the
Speaker 1: house because I knew it was like a famous house
Speaker 1: when Marcia and Herb Smith live there. So it was
Speaker 1: like famous, I knew it had been in magazines. So
Speaker 1: I found all the magazines there and found the pictures
Speaker 1: of what the house used to look like. So I
Speaker 1: based all my designs based on that basically. So I
Speaker 1: tried to go back to that and recreated a lot
Speaker 1: of things that she had in there, like the bookshelf
Speaker 1: on the third floor
Speaker 1: or like the black little shelf in the, in the
Speaker 1: foyer or the red tube in the kitchen and just
Speaker 1: like a, the round fireplace and tried to, oh, and
Speaker 1: then a major one was the cabinet in the living room,
Speaker 1: like recreating that because it had all been
Speaker 1: removed and taken out the house was destroyed when I
Speaker 1: got it. Right. Right. And so you were trying to
Speaker 1: restore it essentially. And how um how difficult was that
Speaker 1: to do? Were you in touch with the original owners? No, so,
Speaker 1: but I did reach out to Ashley Smith. She was
Speaker 1: the girl who lived there. She was in my sister's
Speaker 1: class at Clayton High. So my sister had been over
Speaker 1: there for a dance party once in the basement.
Speaker 1: But um I had never been in that house. But
Speaker 1: um yeah, I found the pictures and magazines and I
Speaker 1: just worked from there and like based my designs off
Speaker 1: of that and then discovered that Marsha Smith also had
Speaker 1: like Memphis Milano furniture and she had Jerry Wilkerson paintings
Speaker 1: in there and Jerry Wilkerson Fig Newtons sculptures. So a
Speaker 1: lot of that stuff I had too and so I
Speaker 1: just like kind of like maximized her idea.
Speaker 1: I mean, Marcia Smith's house was more pure postmodern and
Speaker 1: like severe and black and white and more like the
Speaker 1: Columbia Foundation here on the hill,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. But mine has a little bit more
Speaker 1: color because, like, for instance, the kitchen is not how
Speaker 1: it's supposed to look. It should be black and white. Right.
Speaker 1: And I haven't done the bathrooms yet either but the
Speaker 1: bathrooms like, I don't know because I don't have any
Speaker 1: pictures of what it looked like. But I asked Ashley
Speaker 1: and she said they were all black and white, four
Speaker 1: by four tiles and different patterns or stripes or just
Speaker 1: black or just white. So I guess I'll do something
Speaker 1: like that
Speaker 1: and you have a ton of color in the house.
Speaker 1: You love color, right? Can you tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about the Memphis Group Furniture and Decor that you
Speaker 1: have in the house? Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: ok, I'm gonna reverse back to like high school. Um
Speaker 1: a spree. Yeah, a spree. Literally a Tori Sosus designed
Speaker 1: all the spree, the showroom. So like I loved that,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know it was a Tori sous. So
Speaker 1: I've loved it since then. And then was that to be? Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I figured it out that he was the
Speaker 1: designer
Speaker 1: and then I also found it like in New York,
Speaker 1: my friend Raquel, she did Raquel's dream house in Soho
Speaker 1: and she took an entire like townhouse and
Speaker 1: decorated in Memphis Milano. So that's like where I first
Speaker 1: saw it kind of. And I bought the ultra frag
Speaker 1: mirror out of that show. So that was like the
Speaker 1: first piece I ever got
Speaker 1: and then
Speaker 1: I knew I liked it or loved it or whatever.
Speaker 1: But then when I got that house, like I knew
Speaker 1: that house had to have Memphis Milano furniture. So Raquel
Speaker 1: introduced me to this guy Keith Johnson in Brooklyn, who's
Speaker 1: the wholesale dealer of North America, Memphis Milano. Oh, cool.
Speaker 1: So I went to his studio in um Red Hook
Speaker 1: and got everything from him there.
Speaker 1: Pretty much everything. And was so how readily available are
Speaker 1: the pieces? I mean, easy to acquire. So lots of
Speaker 1: the stuff that I got from him is still in production.
Speaker 1: So you just order it, I mean, it did take
Speaker 1: a few months and then
Speaker 1: uh some of the other pieces that are more rare.
Speaker 1: I traded a painting of Leo Konig in New York
Speaker 1: because he has a huge Memphis Milano collection too. So
Speaker 1: I traded a painting and I got like five more
Speaker 1: rarer pieces that like, aren't in production anymore. And how
Speaker 1: did you decide where to put the pieces in the house? Well,
Speaker 1: how was that process? Like, just like ordered everything? I
Speaker 1: kind of like think about it. Kind of like a
Speaker 1: painting like I know kind of
Speaker 1: like how much paint to mix like for that painting.
Speaker 1: So I kind of picked out just enough furniture for
Speaker 1: the house like it all fit. I mean, I measured
Speaker 1: but like I measured but I also like figured it
Speaker 1: out in my brain. Oh, I made tons of drawings too.
Speaker 1: I have like tons of drawings of like where certain
Speaker 1: pieces would go in what room and everything. So I
Speaker 1: like made drawings of everything constantly.
Speaker 1: It was like super exciting. Like I couldn't wait for
Speaker 1: the furniture to come. And then Keith Johnson's crew came
Speaker 1: out and like built everything and put everything in place
Speaker 1: and everything. It was easy and it fit
Speaker 1: and tell us about the um the boxing ring, the
Speaker 1: boxing rings in the front living room, it fits there
Speaker 1: and it's pretty awesome. It's like,
Speaker 1: uh it's basically for like to have a tea ceremony
Speaker 1: in
Speaker 1: which I never have done that because I'm scared of
Speaker 1: spilling stuff on it. But I do, I do more
Speaker 1: like yoga in it and I do stretching in it
Speaker 1: and it's fun to do it in there because they're
Speaker 1: on bamboo.
Speaker 1: It's made of bamboo, there's to Tommy mats in it.
Speaker 1: So you're on like bamboo tatami mats. So it's fun
Speaker 1: to do yoga in there.
Speaker 1: Super cool. Um And how long did the renovation take?
Speaker 1: Renovation is, took about a year and a half. Ok.
Speaker 1: And during that time you were, were you living in
Speaker 1: the house or? No? No? Ok. So how easy was
Speaker 1: it to hire
Speaker 1: Saint Louis based contractors or painters? The people to do
Speaker 1: the work? Did you have to go outside of Saint
Speaker 1: Louis at all for one thing I did. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was fairly easier to get workers here. I mean,
Speaker 1: I like interviewed a couple of the painters before I
Speaker 1: chose lime. Painting Zoi Torazo I knew was good. Full
Speaker 1: circle made the cabinet that was like a recommendation. He
Speaker 1: was amazing. The cabinet turned out awesome.
Speaker 1: Uh The tile guys I had already worked with before
Speaker 1: like in my studio in downtown, in my storage unit
Speaker 1: and studio bathroom. So I knew they were good. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: everything was made here except the fireplace which was made
Speaker 1: in Brooklynn by friendly metals. Ok. And what is that fireplace? What's,
Speaker 1: what's unique or special about that? Fireplace is, um, based
Speaker 1: on the bacterium floor design in the Terrazzo in the
Speaker 1: living room. So the fireplace is like a cut out bacterium.
Speaker 1: And what is bacterium? It's kind of like a lima
Speaker 1: bean shaped pattern from like the Memphis area. Oh, cool, cool.
Speaker 1: What was your biggest renovation challenge? Nothing really? Really? And
Speaker 1: it was all fairly,
Speaker 1: fairly easy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it took a long time, right? Like, just
Speaker 1: like being patient, like, waiting for everything. Did you go
Speaker 1: to the house every day? Every week? Were you? So
Speaker 1: you go like every morning show up, meet the workers,
Speaker 1: let them in. Sometimes I'd stay there and watch them
Speaker 1: other times I'd leave and come back. But yeah, every
Speaker 1: day I'd go over there.
Speaker 1: Um, and so let's talk now about the pink colors
Speaker 1: on the exterior of the house. Originally it was white. Well,
Speaker 1: it was gray when you bought it, but now you've
Speaker 1: um added some color. Yeah. So I had primary colors
Speaker 1: to the front of the house. Red, yellow, purple, blue,
Speaker 1: uh inspired by Corbusier because Gary Glenn loved Corbusier too
Speaker 1: and he basically built the house thinking of Corbusier and
Speaker 1: then the back of the house I painted pink because
Speaker 1: I love Baron and I love Mexico and I love
Speaker 1: like how he would just like paint a wall pink
Speaker 1: or paint a wall orange or
Speaker 1: whatever color. But I just think that pink is awesome.
Speaker 1: And I love Baron. And how did you select those colors?
Speaker 1: Um I went to the paint store and like chose
Speaker 1: different colors. Oh, I tried out like a couple samples
Speaker 1: like on the walls outside of the house to see
Speaker 1: what they look like. So it's actually two different pinks
Speaker 1: back there. And what is the exterior of the house?
Speaker 1: Like exterior material stove? It's called like stow surface stow
Speaker 1: stow basically did the painters have to prepare the walls
Speaker 1: in any special way for the paint or?
Speaker 1: Well, no, they just did like prime it and then
Speaker 1: paint it. But the stove membrane is like not used anymore.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of rare. So you can't really like
Speaker 1: put holes in it or fix it really. Um And
Speaker 1: what has been the reaction from your neighbors to the
Speaker 1: to the colors, anything?
Speaker 1: Um I would say they like it.
Speaker 1: Do you get a lot of people like driving by
Speaker 1: slowing down to take a look at the time? Everyone
Speaker 1: looks at it, everyone loves to look at the house
Speaker 1: or like if you sit in the bench across the
Speaker 1: street of Forest park, you can hear all the comments.
Speaker 1: One comment was like, is that a house for a human?
Speaker 1: Do humans live there? Dang. Ok. Um What should people
Speaker 1: think about when they are working with color?
Speaker 1: Like if they're trying to think about a room um
Speaker 1: that they want to paint at home? How do, how
Speaker 1: should people go about thinking about the color choices? I
Speaker 1: think they should like research first and like look at
Speaker 1: magazines and like look for pictures that they like or
Speaker 1: what they're what, what it should or what they want
Speaker 1: it to look like and then work from there. But
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people know what to do.
Speaker 1: And so where do you get your ideas? Magazines also? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess magazines and just like looking at Instagram and
Speaker 1: like
Speaker 1: following Decor Architectural Digest or whatever. Like I've always looked
Speaker 1: at that. We should say that you have an Instagram
Speaker 1: specifically for the house and do you want more followers? Ok.
Speaker 1: So let's why don't we tell people what the Instagram is?
Speaker 1: 5725 Lyndal, by the way, that's how I found out
Speaker 1: about
Speaker 1: found it on Instagram. And what's the most used room
Speaker 1: in your home? Probably the kitchen and bedroom, your bedroom
Speaker 1: is like, has like a, a, it's a suite with
Speaker 1: a second floor, like a loft space. Yeah, like a
Speaker 1: library kind and tell us a little bit about, about
Speaker 1: that space.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's kind of like its own suite. Um
Speaker 1: It has huge windows that look at Forest Park. The
Speaker 1: light is awesome.
Speaker 1: Um And then there's a really good bathroom that has
Speaker 1: like a jacuzzi in it and there's a steam room.
Speaker 1: So I like love both of those things. So like
Speaker 1: all I do is like sit in the jacuzzi and
Speaker 1: then the steam room
Speaker 1: and they also have a great pool outside. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: did you have to do major work to that pool?
Speaker 1: It was there, right? Yeah, the pool was there but
Speaker 1: it had also been changed. So I didn't really mess
Speaker 1: with it. I changed the tiles on it because it
Speaker 1: was grace late when I got it. So I changed
Speaker 1: it to black and white tiles. What kind of tiles
Speaker 1: are they? Oh, black and white. Uh six by six
Speaker 1: inch tiles. Matte.
Speaker 1: And do you spend a lot of time in the
Speaker 1: pool in the summer? Yeah. Love it. I love swimming.
Speaker 1: I love the hot tub.
Speaker 1: I never had a pool before. So it's like awesome.
Speaker 1: Do you entertain a lot? Yeah. How do you like
Speaker 1: to entertain casually more? Formally. What kind of people do
Speaker 1: you like to invite to the house? Well, the first
Speaker 1: party I had there was like a eighties birthday party.
Speaker 1: So there's a DJ only playing eighties music. So, I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of informal dance party, pizza party. And then the
Speaker 1: last party was
Speaker 1: based on David Hockney's a bigger splash painting. So it
Speaker 1: was a pool party in winter. So it was a
Speaker 1: pool party and the cake was like a David Hockney design.
Speaker 1: Like he painted the pool in L A. So, I guess,
Speaker 1: kind of informal fun. Maybe. Like, I invite, like, art,
Speaker 1: art world people from Saint Louis or, and it seems
Speaker 1: like you are, you know, really happy in Saint Louis
Speaker 1: and established here now. Um, I know you travel quite
Speaker 1: a bit. But what do you like about being back
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis? Just way easier?
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a car, I never had a
Speaker 1: car before. I just, like, drive around. My studio is
Speaker 1: huge because there's so much space here. It's like a
Speaker 1: huge warehouse in midtown. Yeah, there's just like
Speaker 1: lots of space. It's easy. It's beautiful. Like forest Park
Speaker 1: is awesome.
Speaker 1: Uh, the food's good. Cool. Yeah. What are some of
Speaker 1: your favorite places to go in Saint Louis? To hang out?
Speaker 1: To eat? To hang out? Yeah.
Speaker 1: To eat. Maybe like the Vine Cafe on South Grand
Speaker 1: is awesome or Mes Karim. Really good Ethiopian food or? Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just there last week. Actually, after the orchid show,
Speaker 1: we went there for lunch and then maybe like Olympia,
Speaker 1: the Greek place. Those are my top three. Let's get
Speaker 1: to our rapid fire questions. So let's get started. What
Speaker 1: would readers be most surprised to learn about your house?
Speaker 1: Um Maybe that there is a room in the basement
Speaker 1: built in case of a nuclear war. What artwork or
Speaker 1: piece of furniture do you currently have your eye on?
Speaker 1: Uh There's this Mandeni table at Retro Inferno in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: That's totally awesome. I'd like to get that. And then
Speaker 1: I saw this Gaetano Pesce glove coat rack when I
Speaker 1: was in Miami, I wanna get that done. And actually
Speaker 1: that makes me think of a a question. I, I
Speaker 1: definitely wanna ask, how do you know
Speaker 1: where this furniture is? Like, do you s do you
Speaker 1: see things when you're traveling? Do you read about it
Speaker 1: online or do you have people telling you like, how
Speaker 1: does that happen? Oh, so I went to Kansas City
Speaker 1: to visit the Norman Museum and Jeremy Scott told us
Speaker 1: to go to Retro Inferno. So we went there and
Speaker 1: it's a really awesome store
Speaker 1: with like a vintage
Speaker 1: furniture and he has tons of Memphis and he had
Speaker 1: this Medini table that was amazing. So I saw that there.
Speaker 1: And then for instance, the Gaetano Pesce glove sculpture
Speaker 1: I saw in Miami during Basel, he had like a
Speaker 1: pop up show in the design district in Miami during
Speaker 1: Art Basel. Ok. I saw that there. Where do you
Speaker 1: like to shop for furniture in Saint Louis? Got to
Speaker 1: say cool stuff, cool stuff. Love Ronnie. Yeah. Cool stuff.
Speaker 1: Or Mo modern. Yeah. Yeah. Also a great one.
Speaker 1: And what city do you feel most inspired? I would
Speaker 1: say Morocco, but I had another choice too. But I
Speaker 1: would just say Morocco just because of all the patterns
Speaker 1: and textiles and rugs and hand painted signs and just
Speaker 1: color everywhere. And the fashion is just amazing.
Speaker 1: And then my other idea was Iceland because it's so minimal,
Speaker 1: natural and beautiful and like Scandinavian design, minimalism. And do
Speaker 1: you have um are you heading somewhere this summer?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we don't know where yet. What's your next
Speaker 1: house project? Next house project? Well, it's been in the
Speaker 1: works like 10 years, but we're finally about to build
Speaker 1: a house in San Juan Puerto Rico. Oh, cool. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I've actually seen the, the drawings at your studio.
Speaker 1: So we finally have the permits and the excavations done
Speaker 1: and we found the cisterns in the basement and all
Speaker 1: the reports are in almost. So
Speaker 1: now we're rebidding how much it will cost to build
Speaker 1: it and we'll probably start to Oh Wow, great project.
Speaker 1: If you could go back and rethink one of your
Speaker 1: uh one of the renovations that you made to the
Speaker 1: Lyndal house, what would that be? The front foyer Terrazzo.
Speaker 1: Ok. Tell us right now. Right now it's like circles
Speaker 1: and half moons and pink and gray, which is fine.
Speaker 1: Like the circle, there's circles all over the house, like
Speaker 1: the circle fireplace, the circle door, doorknob, the circle tube
Speaker 1: in the kitchen. So I was like circles. But the
Speaker 1: more I think about it, I think it should have
Speaker 1: just been like a Memphis design like squiggles or
Speaker 1: just like rectangles in white with a red background or
Speaker 1: more of like a Memphis design. What question do you
Speaker 1: hear the most often about the house? People wanna know
Speaker 1: if it's an apartment building or is that an office
Speaker 1: building or they rent a room in the apartment? Oh, interesting.
Speaker 1: And they're just walking by the house and they, they
Speaker 1: ask usually like the doordash guys. Uh what makes for
Speaker 1: a good house party?
Speaker 1: Uh music
Speaker 1: and who, who are some of your favorite right now?
Speaker 1: I'm like really into burner boy, Central C Dave.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's like all I was. Wow. OK. Way too
Speaker 1: cool for me. I've not heard of them. Um Finish
Speaker 1: this sentence. I love living in Saint Louis because uh
Speaker 1: there's amazing architecture here. I love looking at all the
Speaker 1: houses and all the different neighborhood and I love my house.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know is there another house in Saint
Speaker 1: Louis that you, you know, you tend to drive by
Speaker 1: and my air? Oh, yeah, there's a couple,
Speaker 1: there's one further towards uh the central west end on Lyndal.
Speaker 1: That's like a stone house that has like a gallery
Speaker 1: attached to it.
Speaker 1: I love that one. And then there's one actually on
Speaker 1: King's Highway in one of those private neighborhoods that's like
Speaker 1: Austrian art deco, kind of looks like Ancient Egypt meets
Speaker 1: art deco. Right. Right. Right. I love that on Hor Tens.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yeah, that's a great house. I've been in there.
Speaker 1: Very cool. All right. Well, thanks Catherine. Thank you.
Speaker 1: And now for these views, we're recording this episode in February,
Speaker 1: but it feels like spring is right around the corner
Speaker 1: and this is a great time to get out of
Speaker 1: the house and see some new things.
Speaker 1: The biannual Saint Louis Antique Festival at Belle Clare Fairgrounds
Speaker 1: and Expo Center is coming to Belleville on April 27th
Speaker 1: and 28th. More than 100 antique dealers from across the
Speaker 1: country will be there selling everything from fine China to
Speaker 1: vintage quilts and French cameo glass among many other wears
Speaker 1: Colombian artist Delcie Morelos is showing her work at the
Speaker 1: Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
Speaker 1: The exhibit is called Interwoven and it includes an immersive
Speaker 1: sculpture made from local soil for one of the museum's galleries.
Speaker 1: It'll be here until August 4th studies in architecture at
Speaker 1: the Sheldon opens on May 11th. The exhibit showcases paintings
Speaker 1: of the late Wallace Erin Smith with contemporary works by
Speaker 1: sculptor Paul Young.
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