15 minutes of pure bliss

Each two months, I’ve a quarter of an hour, filled with pure bliss and caused by the arrival of a new edition of the Australian Vogue Living. The November edition covers an article about a Sydney apartment owned and decorated by Torsten Grimme, an antiques dealer. His home has been filled with African furniture and decorative objects. The photos of his house confirm his skills in composing still lives and his flair in the mix & match of styles. One example is the decoration of a bathroom. He lined the walls in grey mosaic tiles and chose for a grey marble hand basin. In order to fill this room with a warm glow, an old French gold framed mirror has been suspended above the basin.

This choice is rather remarkable and is to compare with the situation when a woman wears golden earrings together with other silver coloured accessories. In Holland we would say that this combination is like swearing in the church. But if the woman is wearing a top or a jacket, which tailoring or colouring brings gold and silver together, the woman is a stylist. Grimme did the same in his bathroom by applying accessories likes a perfume bottle, an old wine glass and a gold rimmed tray. He placed the pieces on ‘the planchet’ in such an order that the eye of a person that enters the bathroom fixes upon this stylish setting. From there on the person’s will see a harmonious view of cold grey and old golden tones.

Next blog post is about Grimme’s usage of an old shop counter and a new stainless steel kitchen stove.