Pop Art Crossover

Interior with Skyline

I came across Miu Miu's cruise collection and all I could think was it looked like the models walked out of a Roy Lichtenstein painting.  The pop art master created his paintings using his signature lines and dots in order to transform banal objects and see beauty in all things.  His cartoony comic book style was/is a commercial success.  Though he was called a copyist, I say he was an inspirationalist.

Miuccia Prada, perhaps inspired by Lichtenstein, used hearts, apples and dots in much the same way to create a similar pop art vibe.   When her punchy prints were paired with solids, I like the happy results but when the prints are worn together it seems kitschy, ironically, more like the now iconic cartoons Mr. Lichtenstein is best known for.

The Den

I have to admit I wasn't aware of Roy's extensive interiors portfolio.  Like his Nude series, they weren't as commercially successful.  Of course he is best known for his DC comic book, pulp fiction like images.

Interior with Red Wall

Dots are certainly a recurring image in fashion every couple of years.  Roy Lichtenstein created the use of the Benday dot.  It is like an optical illusion where dots placed properly create shading or a secondary color.  It was an inexpensive way, at the time, to print advertisements and comics. 

Interior with T' aime

It is hard to see but there are dots within the hearts and apples.

Interior with Waterlilies

BAM, POP, WHAAM

Inspired Impressions~The Interiors of Jeremiah Goodman

Claude Guidi, interior decorator, Buenos Aires

Jeremiah Goodman, now 88, a treasure in the design community, made a career out of painting gouache portraits of some of the finest interiors over the last many decades.  Stylish names in fashion, politics, publishing, as well as celebrities and royalty have commissioned Mr. Goodman to capture their beloved interiors in his signature etherial style.

Jeremiah works everyday in a corner studio space he created in his Upper East side apartment.  There was a wonderful retrospective of his work at the New York School of Interior Design this past fall and I am sure it will not be the last.  Jeremiah's popularity is really growing.  I just friended him on facebook.

Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion designer

Reed Krakoff, designer, Hamptons

Ronald & Nancy Reagan's sitting room, Bel Aire 

Silver Room @ Nymphenburg Palace

Thru the discerning eye of an artist, Mr. Goodman captures light and shadow. He manipulates scale and creates a mood.  He infuses static rooms with warmth and personality bringing them vitality and life.

Cecil Beaton

Dransfield & Ross, home furnishing designers

Betsy Bloomingdale's  living room

Carolina Herrera

"It takes a really fine artist to give us the sense of being in the room, of being able to move about the space, touch, react, get beyond the facts to the reasoning behind them"  Edward Albee

David Hicks, drawing room

Leonard Stanley

Elsa Peretti, jewelry designer, Italy

The Duchess of Windsor

Below is Jeremiah's favorite painting, he said; it expresses the romantic glamour and mystery of the past

Carlos de Bestegui, dining room, 1960 Paris

For the first time, Jeremiah has released giclee prints of some of his interiors.  They are being offered by London based art dealer  Dean Rhys Morgan.  I am eagerly anticipating the arrival of the picture I was able to purchase, the artist proof, of one of my favorite rooms (the first picture in this story) which will proudly hang in my office.

To learn more about Jeremiah, he has a stunning book out, now it its second printing

credits: Martha Stewart, Apt. Therapy, CLI, Dean Rhys Morgan, NY Times