{"id":2960,"date":"2011-12-13T18:32:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T18:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2011-12-13T18:34:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T18:34:37","slug":"what-did-venice-give-to-the-poor-little-rich-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"What Did Venice Give to the Poor Little Rich Gays?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday 13th December 2011<\/p>\n

Actually since regaining from Venice one week ago, there have been four dinners and a funeral, two last minute.<\/p>\n

But first we must ask the great question we always ask: what did Venice give to the Poor Little Rich Gays? Has it shaped our style and art? Did we shape its?<\/p>\n

My day alone, after the main party had mounted for London, last Monday, was one of the most thrilling for cradling art and buildings in recent years if not in my entire span of life, although, truth told, I don’t really take Tiepolo, Veronese or Guardi. If ever the sum was greater than the parts – although I did make one great discovery. I’ll tell you about it soon.<\/p>\n

And the Fortuny Museum was closed, did I mention?<\/p>\n

In the larger arc, Venice is supremely Poor Little Rich Gay, highly ornamental, possibly unnecessary, lurching on mud in the middle of that wondrous bleak lagoon. Most places in some small way resemble other places, but Venice absolutely does not. Even the water in behaviour and colour is quite unique.<\/p>\n

But within is flock wallpaper, a certain heaviness, just a wheeny bit blowsy. Damask is also loved, as a complete room lining, even of the ceiling: old-fashioned. And marble, of course.<\/p>\n

Then I remembered, Val, that glorious spirit who flashes on through a vat of the wrong kind of spirits, once lined his bedroom (including ceiling) with a reproduction velvet from Shepherd’s Bush market. It was deep blue with gold fleur-de-lys. I must ask him how the other fittings were done. I’m sure there was a bed canopy, the whole effect very Doge.<\/p>\n

Then one day he chucked it all away.<\/p>\n

And the Photo Multi’s bathroom (the Multis have separate bathrooms and dressing rooms in their Riverside penthouse but one bedroom, not twin) is a marble symphony, except that it’s onyx. The Multis were done, you know, when they marble-clad their penthouse. A vicious stonemason disappeared with \u00a325,000. Their response was to fly business-class several times to Pisa to select directly from the mines and fly in a team of Italian craftsmen to install.<\/p>\n

In the Photo Multi’s bathroom, the very cupboard doors are marble – or onyx.<\/p>\n

In Venice I found a exquisite church which gave birth to it – the Photo Multi’s bathroom, I mean. Santa Maria dei Miracoli. Do you know it? It’s awfully well known. A marble jewel, marble without and within.<\/p>\n

Let the graphs below speak.<\/p>\n

\"Bathroom

Bathroom Idea?: Marble Used at Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice <\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The Perfect Bathroom: Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice: Marble-lined<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Why

Why Not Try at Home? Marble Lining of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Outside

Outside of the Bathroom: Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice <\/p><\/div>\n

\"Veal

Veal and Damask Heaven: the Multis' Suite at the Luna Baglioni, Venice: I mean the Carpets are Veal Shade<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tented

Tented Heaven: the Multis' Damask-Lined Suite at the Luna Baglioni <\/p><\/div>\n

\"The

The Multis' Suite at the Luna Baglioni, Venice: Casing Tape Detail<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Three

Three Nights Away: the Multis' Accoutrements at the Luna Baglioni, Venice: Note Even the Dressing Room is Ceiling-Lined<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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