From the Director of ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ a New Project: A House

@MG Amateurish? How, please explain. This is not my style at all but I see HIS style and its consistency across rooms. Mr. Guadagnino live with his design. I admire his creativity even if my taste runs to simple designs. I read Architecture Digest, design magazines the internet marketing trolls send my way, and the NYT columns on house design from the "Professionals" and most of the time I am appalled at the "overstuffiness", the "over decored", the instagram ready but apparent complete lack of understanding about how people actually live. Those advocating minimalism do not fare better. I once went into a large Hillsborough house (California) choke full of "art work" From the entrance on I had a weird feeling - I figured out later that all the art work (some of which patinated plaster to look like bronze, I guess ready to be chucked at the next remodeling...) had been chosen by professional interior designers to project what? culture? savviness?- not by the owner "coup de foudre" during their travels or visit to Galleries or art faires. The result was a house with no soul and for me, existential malaise.