NEST Magazine
SHAPE-SHIFTING AMAZINE. NINETEEN NINETY SEVEN TO TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR. THERE WAS NO BETTER ADDRESS THAN NEST. A MAGAZINE OF INTERIORS. REWROTE THE PUBLISHING RULEBOOK INSIDE AND OUT. NEVER MIND A PARADIGM SHIFT, NEST REARRANGED THE FURNITURE OF OUR MENTAL LANDSCAPE!
Remember it so well. The postmodern explosion of the first issue of Nest. Raymond Donahue's Farrah Fawcett bedroom / shrine on the cover. The rounded die-cut top right corner. Invite yourself in.
Everyone talked about the Farrah Fawcett shoot. You just could not get more high / low culture than this. Popmodernism.
The third issue. The Carlo Mollino house special with the button-up fabric vanity band for the newsstand.
What does this not have going on? Summer 2000. The scratch panel swimsuit issue. There are snakes hatching from eggs in the inset logo square!
Summer 2001. Rei Kawakubo redesigns the US Capitol building and ties it up with a ribbon.
Fall 2002. The Piss Elegance issue. It's yellow pee stained. Incroyable.
And always more than equal to the covers - the inside. When André Leon Talley found himself in an extended stay at the Lennox Hill Hospital in New York, Nest editor in chief, Joseph Holtzman, helped him decorate.
This spread from a twenty-two page illustrated feature on a Russian orphange.
From the same issue as the orphanage, Andy Warhol's bedroom from his hitherto unseen East 66th Street townhouse. This kind of content, like ten times an issue, times twenty-six. This is the world of interiors.
Can't think now that there has been a more important magazine since. Not with this vast wealth of style, taste, design, innovation and surprise. It wasn't the end of print. More the height of its power.
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