VT (for all of my design-obsessed peeps)

photocourtesyofalifemorefabulous Peeps, The home of Fransisco Costa, creative designer of Calvin Klein, is quite revealing for what it is  not .   Some may have expected sultry images of frolicking bodies in the vein of Bruce Weber, or an ultra-modern slant on minimalism in the style of Tadao Ando.  Suffice to say, there are no bleached bones, black-on-black Martinez pots, or mounds of pebbles in deference to O' Keefe and Juan Hamilton.  Instead we are treated to a Manhattan loft where a 40's European modernity is made sensuous and sensual through the addition of ethnic and natural elements.  I literally flipped for the horn and black leather armchair sitting center-stage; also Jones'd for the beautifully woven blanket (of indeterminate origin but perhaps of the Native American or South American tribes) folded on the settee; yes, I briefly considered a couple of years of lowly indenture in exchange for that lacquered wall screen--with a pattern ...