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Check out this great story from our friends at CasaSugar!
Earlier, I announced that the New York Times has asked five celebrated interior designers (Vicente Wolf, Kelly Wearstler, Jonathan Adler, Laura Kirar, and Thom Filicia) to each curate 10 of their favorite photographs from the NYT Store's new photo archives. The collection, called 50 Photographs, is available for purchase online today. I chatted with the illustrious Jonathan Adler on Friday about his selections and his work as a designer. Check out the interview below!
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CasaSugar: So I was able to take a sneak peek at your collection of the New York Times photos, and I see you've chosen mostly photographs of glamorous revelers all wearing masks. What is it about the masquerade theme that you're drawn to?
Jonathan Adler: I just think there's nothing more fun than looking at pictures of glamorous in fancy dress having fun and I think masks are sort of . . . they're all about intrigue, and that's what a picture should be about. A picture should be provoking and intriguing and a little bit titillating.
And then . . . so I chose I think nine mask pictures I believe and then I chose one picture that's particularly grim and sort of an American version of a Martin Parr picture of the New Jersey Turnpike just to remind me of where I came from!
CS: Right! I'm from New Jersey, also. So I very much appreciate that!
JA: Holla! It's a great place to be from because it gave me somewhere to want to crawl my way out of.
CS: Exactly! Well, it worked for you, or at least it seems like it!
JA: Yea - it worked! And that picture is a good reminder.
CS: You had to chose through literally thousands of images in this new New York Times Store, and it seems like it will be a great new resource for all of us. But it's also daunting to have to go through so much. Where did you begin to look when choosing photos for your own collection?
JA: I guess I began with sort of the idea of glamorous people having fun, staring into the camera, and sort of the idea of glamorous intrigue. So that's sort of what was in my mind: glamorous intrigue and faces, and so masked balls just made a lot of sense.
CS: So can we expect to see a Jonathan Adler Mask Collection anytime soon?
JA: Never say never!
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