Friday, January 30th, 2009...11:05 am
Plaidies of the Week: The Sisters Hovey
It was their Halloween costumes, a nod to There Will Be Blood, that first brought them to my attention. The sisters Hovey of Williamsburg, Brooklyn have curated an apartment of “taxidermy, militaria, Victorian library do-dads, [and] chesterfield couches” as Hollister laid out in a recent post on her blog. 
Many have referred to her obsession with Hemingway, but The New York Times nailed it, calling her aesthetic “decaying WASP-y, Teddy Roosevelt by way of John Derian.” Hollister’s blog speaks to my tweedy, genteel, professorial nature like a sermon on the mount.
Porter, a photographer with a sharp eye for texture has the innate ability to see beauty in the everyday as can be seen in her Polaroid Project: the floor of a bathroom, the leather-covered buttons of a chesterfield, a field of lavender.
In the messy celebration of modernity, it’s nice to take a moment to appreciate a well-made classic. Please take a moment to pay respect to two of them, Hollister and Porter Hovey.
7 Comments
January 30th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
“I think i have a crush on one of them. Ssshh.”
January 30th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Respek.
January 30th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Mish, don’t be shy! We’re both very friendly gals. And Max, so many thanks to you. We owe you drinks!
January 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Awww!! Just soo wonderful!!
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Thanks for the update.
Love,
Mike
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