![]() ![]() As Guzmán explains in the book’s forward, “We are self-taught, highly discerning design enthusiasts and collectors who have amassed, over the course of twenty years and six renovation and design projects, the hard-won wisdom.” Point being, if you’re going to design your space yourself, taking advice from these two is a logical place to start.īut with a major overhaul not in the cards, I was curious to know what else one could do to start small and re-energize a single room easily, quickly and without breaking the bank. While Mitchell, the former publisher of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and GQ, and Guzmán, the former editor-in-chief of Condé Nast Traveler and Martha Stewart Living, are not professional interior designers, they nonetheless have a wealth of expertise to share. If that’s not in the cards (for financial reasons, because you can’t find the right pro in your area, or because you’re a DIYer), it’s still possible to wind up with a home worthy of an Architectural Digest video.Įnter Patina Modern: A Guide to Designing Warm, Timeless Interiors, written by New York City-based power couple Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzmán. But what happens when it’s time to graduate from commenting on other people’s design choices from the comfort of your couch and implement your own? The easiest way forward would be to hire an interior designer to help. After all, people want to live in a space that inspires them, comforts them and speaks to who they are, just like these hyper-curated homes. Just consider the hours we spend browsing Zillow, scrolling impeccably-styled apartments on Instagram, and binging home-design shows on TV and celebrity tours on YouTube.Īll of this is only natural. Patina? Another term overused to explain rust in various places.As a society, we’ve become obsessed with other people’s homes and what’s inside them. Otherwise, a nice sanding coat and the primer got the hot rod ready for the last step with a nice paint job. We have never had a “patina” look car/truck as in our day, primer paint was patina. No fake clear spray, but a gentle care of the surfaces and car/truck is necessary to carry on the patina look. A nice car wash and or cleaning in some circles does the job without having to spray a clear coating over the “patina.” “Let It Be” is another song that tells us all how car surfaces get thrashed if left outside and nothing is done to clean it up. No extra coating is necessary as the normal maintenance is done, anyway. If not, then the chrome made its changes.Īs Neil Young is associated with rock music, the title: “Rust Never Sleeps…” is a true life fact. But, over the years, it just needed upkeep like the cars outside or in the garage. We had several mid-century modern chrome ball lamps and they had a nice coating of Cadillac Blue Coral Wax. In the apartment and in the closed garage did slow the process down, but it just kept coming every single day… and sometimes all through the night. So, if I/we were not on top of things, the salt air does its intended job of rusting everything in sight, fast, even shiny chrome. Others have left cars/trucks outside in all sorts of weather/moisture for different results. Although having lived right on the sand in our early days, my wife and I have experienced a fast coating of salt air every afternoon for several years. A driveway roller job would be an upgrade in many cases.Īssuming the origin of this cool old Chevy truck was Bend, Oregon as the side door sign states, gives an idea about how the weather and proximity to the salt air/snow/moisture is valuable in getting a fast, good looking patina. I'm assuming the lure of saving money/time on bodywork is strong here, although the effort some builders make to achieve 'the look' can be as much work/expense as getting the car to a decent primer or suede job level. Yes, I understand the difference, but to the casual observer it can be hard to distinguish one from the other. The other, 'heavily patinaed' ones are back-door Rat Rods IMO, and it's interesting to note that they're almost always 'classed' that way at shows. green coupe is a perfect example that I'm personally familiar with. Many were home builds that may lack the detailing that seems to be required these days but are perfect snapshots of the era. These are genuine survivors, cars that were either decently stored due to changed life situations or driven enough that time to 'refresh' them wasn't carved out. There're basically two types of 'patina' cars that are still presentable, with substantially intact or flawed paint, little or no major rust-through, and are showing their age but not outright neglect. ![]()
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