House Call: He’s Cool, We’re Not

May 19th, 2008

From Julie:

We recently came across the new Amsterdam apartment of the mysterious Minimalist Flickr Guy from the Netherlands. He’s got a turntable, we don’t. He has no sentimental clutter. He painted the beautiful old wood floors high gloss white (”before anyone comments on how painting wood floors is such a crime, my decision is made,” he says). He has a Vernon Panton Topan Suspension light, a hard-to-love brown shag rug by FM Janssen, and a Euro airport-esque Lotus lounge chair, by Dutch designer Rob Parry (a former student of Gerrit Rietveld) reissued by Bränd Furniture. Also an Eames wire-base table and an Eames-like armchair. See his old Amsterdam apartment at Flickr, which we first spotted on the excellent Reference Library.