{"id":129956,"date":"2025-11-12T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129956\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:28:11","slug":"bruce-weber-captures-sofia-coppolas-los-angeles-office-cy-twomblys-rome-residence-and-jil-sanders-hamburg-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129956\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Weber Captures Sofia Coppola’s Los Angeles Office, Cy Twombly\u2019s Rome Residence, and Jil Sander’s Hamburg Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a world of images that scroll past us in seemingly endless waves of interchangeable pixels, designers Patrick McGrath and Michael Bargo decided to challenge themselves to answer the question: What actually stands the test of time? For the two, who are longtime friends, the answer finally came\u2014in the form of objects they have each lived with. For McGrath this was Roman, Pre-Columbian, and Chinese antiquities, and for Bargo, mid-century French design by the likes of Jean Prouv\u00e9 that he has painstakingly collected over the years. Now, they have put these seemingly disparate collections on display in McGrath\u2019s recently opened downtown New York gallery space.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pairing felt both timely and inevitable,\u201d says McGrath of the show, which features such juxtapositions as a Pierre Patout bookcase displaying Teotihuacan and Olmec masks. \u201cThere\u2019s a tension there\u2014it\u2019s these really rarefied objects from both spectrums,\u201d says Bargo. \u201cBeautiful museum-quality antiquities, and then these raw, industrial pieces of furniture that were designed for the everyday man.\u201d <\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s a third, entirely unexpected ingredient to the show: photographs of interiors by Bruce Weber. Over a Prouv\u00e9 daybed, for example, hangs an oversize photo of a Grecian-style statue photographed at Chatsworth, the English estate of the Duchess of Devonshire. Behind a pre-Columbian torso and mask on pedestals hang Weber\u2019s photographs taken at Manuel Alvarez Bravo\u2019s house. A Roman bust sits in front of a snapshot of Sofia Coppola\u2019s overflowing Los Angeles office, representing the opposition of control and chaos, as McGrath sees it.<\/p>\n

\"bruceBruce Weber<\/p>\n

Over a Prouv\u00e9 daybed hangs an oversized Weber photo of a Grecian-style statue shot at Chatsworth, the English estate of the Duchess of Devonshire<\/p>\n

\u201cI never really did anything like this before,\u201d says Weber, who was intrigued by the two friends\u2019 request to see photographs of interiors. \u201cI said, yeah, sure, that sounds different for me\u2026It’s really funny, because I just take pictures inside places that I like, where I want to sit down on the couch or go to sleep on the sofa,\u201d which in his case means at Cy Twombly\u2019s residence in Gaeta or Jil Sander\u2019s home in Hamburg. <\/p>\n

Of Coppola\u2019s overflowing desk, for example, Weber says, \u201cIt was a mess\u2014and I loved it. I don\u2019t want to redecorate the place.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBruce shoots things in a really raw, romantic way,\u201d says Bargo. \u201cI feel like so frequently, interiors photographers only shoot things in a straightforward, glossy, everything-styled-perfectly way. The beauty of his are that they are of a surfer\u2019s shack in Montauk that on the surface has zero appeal whatsoever.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"bruceBruce Weber<\/p>\n

Sofia Coppola\u2019s desk in her Los Angeles office, as photographed by Bruce Weber. <\/p>\n

Bargo and McGrath were given carte blanche to Weber\u2019s archive, and had the difficult task of narrowing the selection down to 20. As it turned out, they were mostly in sync, with each one unwittingly selecting images the other had already ear-marked. \u201cEverything just seemed to make sense,\u201d says Bargo. \u201cThey all seemed cohesive as a body of work.\u201d <\/p>\n

For McGrath, there is a through line connecting each section of the exhibition, which is up until December 3rd: \u201cThe antiquities are literal, historical icons; the Prouv\u00e9 furniture started off as very utilitarian, modernist furniture and now has become the premier icon of modernism; and Bruce is one of the most iconic photographers of the 90s,\u201d he says, pointing out that this body of work is largely still unknown. For Weber, \u201cthese pictures were of people who were my friends, not just people I worked with,\u201d he says, reminiscing about Iman and David Bowie, and visiting the late model Stella Tennant at Chatsworth. <\/p>\n

\"bruceBruce Weber<\/p>\n

The exhibit at McGrath\u2019s recently opened downtown New York gallery space. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a beautiful narrative in the sense that it’s very personal for us,\u201d says Bargo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s the antithesis of this Instagram age,\u201d says McGrath. \u201cFurniture that has stood the test of time and for the antiquities, these are things that are still so beautiful after tens of thousands of years. There\u2019s something about the permanence.\u201d <\/p>\n

And in the truest test of a show that just works: It took two hours to install. Says McGrath: \u201cWe barely even spoke.\u201d <\/p>\n

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