Nest a Quarterly of Interiors Magazine Number 9 Summer 2000

Nest, 2000. Softcover. Very Good. 11x9x0. Highly collectible Summer 2000 Issue Number 9 of "NEST a quarterly of interiors." Much more than an interior design magazine, this is a beautiful, unique, quirky and fascinating magazine which was published from 1998-2004. In 2004, the Nest creative director, publisher and editor Joseph Holtzman shuttered the magazine to focus full-time on his painting. Known for its uniqueness, this issue of Nest is trapezoid in shape, not rectangular in shape as are most magazines. The cover and the back panel feature a young couple with scratch off swimwear; the swimwear is complete as issued, not scratched. Nest commissioned landscape architect Ken Smith to recreate a room depicting a nude young couple living as Adam and Eve, with numerous photos of the couple and the Eden-designed intriguing room filled with fake flowers, plants, fruit, frogs, caterpillars and a rainbow of light throughout the issue. A 3-panel foldout is pictured with headshots of the Nest staff and contributors superimposed on the nude members of the American Sunbathing Association. Many photos of the home of Fred Hughes, former manager and the executor of the estate of Andy Warhol. An insert enclosed on his views of collecting, written by American by Peter J. Gomes preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard's Memorial Church. Photos included. A 5-panel panoramic foldout by photographer Giogi Jano of the summer house of Fulvio Farrari is featured. Photographs originally published in Life magazine and history of Dragon Rock, the home designed by Architect Russel Wright and owned by his daughter Annie; photographs of a coterie of cross-dressers; migrant farm workers and their families in Mattawa, Washington; a visit by Patti Smith in Tangier, and much more. Note that there are several full frontal nude photographs in this issue. From Nest: Marketed as an interior design magazine, and edited by Joseph Holtzman, Nest generally eschewed the conventionally beautiful luxury interiors showcased in other magazines, and instead featured photographs of nontraditional, exceptional, and unusual environments. Fred A. Bernstein, writing in the New York Times, wrote that Joseph Holtzman "believed that an igloo, a prison cell or a child's attic room (adorned with Farrah Fawcett posters) could be as compelling as a room by a famous designer." During its run, Nest showed the room of a 40-year-old diaper lover, the lair of an Indonesian bird that decorates with colored stones and vomit, the final resting place of Napoleon's penis, the quarters of Navy seamen, a barbed-wire-trimmed bed that doubled as a tank, and a Gothic Christmas card from filmmaker John Waters. Noted architect Rem Koolhaas called it "an anti-materialistic, idealistic magazine about the hyperspecific in a world that is undergoing radical leveling, an 'interior design' magazine hostile to the cosmetic." Artist Richard Tuttle was quoted as saying that Mr. Holtzman "channeled the collective unconscious, to give us the pleasure of ornament before we even knew we wanted it." Many glossy period ads of high-end and enduring retail items. Tight, immaculate copy. Extremities crisp. Unmarked front to back. No address label. 11" x 9". 212 pp. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.