{"id":320,"date":"2010-06-21T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.promiscuousassemblage.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2010-06-21T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:10:57","slug":"a-hiatus-but-work-progresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/a-hiatus-but-work-progresses\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hiatus but Work Progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Moving from a large house filled with the bric and brac of the entire family&#8217;s lives from fifteen years has focused me<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: large;\">in one gigantic way: I want to keep this new house free of the immense amount of clutter.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel so behind the curve! All of the disciples of Martha and Domino have been\u00c2\u00a0 making a mantra\/style out of the religion of spareness.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps the pendulum is going to swing the other way in the next decade towards an 80&#8217;s style exuberant and flagrant plenty and as usual my personal pendulum will be swinging the opposite way!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But wait-the English have devised a way to have both, that is a disciplined and clean approach to design that allows a chaotic freedom.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve absorbed some lessons from pondering English garden style.\u00c2\u00a0 Not all certainly, but many gardens come precisely from that style.\u00c2\u00a0 Observe the formal and linear hedging-there they resemble the French.\u00c2\u00a0 But then what do they do?\u00c2\u00a0 They strew the interiors with a wild abandon of flora.\u00c2\u00a0 The long borders display this as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Face to face, but never matching, they are symmetrical i<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">n layout, but divergent in plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Perhaps the house can have the discipline of sparseness, but pockets of free fall STUFF. My European &#8220;picture walls&#8221; with art hung according to the rhythm of patterns and colors can be interspersed with a wall with very little hanging on it, nothing showcased but itself, creating another kind of pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The kitchen which has been hollowed out is all at once a different space than I could have imagined.\u00c2\u00a0 With the removal of an outside wall, the new interior is suddenly larger and brighter and the focus has shifted to a different kind of plan.\u00c2\u00a0 A plan that may very well suit itself to being spare with concentrations of personal clutter&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving from a large house filled with the bric and brac of the entire family&#8217;s lives from fifteen years has focused me in one gigantic way: I want to keep this new house free of the immense amount of clutter.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel so behind the curve! All of the disciples of Martha and Domino have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promiscuous-assemblage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}