Little House

As much as I loved The Art Barge, and the D'Amico's home and studio, what I went really nuts over (which means suddenly forgetting to breath, and thinking "whaaaaaaaat?!") was the couple's guest cottage, the Little House. It's so lived-in, so cozy (this will never be a bad word for me) and comfortable and interesting, so happy and so personal, that I can't imagine it was actually reserved for visitors. Or if it was, they must have felt they'd arrived somewhere as familiar as their own home.

I just moved into a new apartment, and while I felt an impulse to whittle and purge, cut my stuff by half, live in a space with white walls and bare floors, just a bed, a chair, a lamp and a some books, looking at these pictures again reminded me that I'm really a Little House kind of person.