i recently went to new york to interview anthony pisano for an upcoming fourteenth street article. we found out about him through the beautiful, ever-useful internet machine. his railroad style apartment is in a really busy area of the east village but he keeps his door wide open for anyone who may want to stop in and look around. the front room is stacked up with antiques - old drums, movie cameras, a fish tank, framed pictures, ornate mirrors - it's literally from the floor to the ceiling. all stuff. i had a few flashes of my future home while in there.
if you keep moving back into the space, you pass through his equally crowded office, then a very narrow bedroom, then his living room/dining room/kitchen. he has a HUGE grand piano in the middle of it all, where his cat likes to rest, and tons of crazy kitchen gear. (he used to be a butcher and still likes to cut up his own meat.)
i talked to him for two hours and he was amazing. i almost cried twice. (see post below for further examples of this new epidemic.) he's incredibly open and loving and told a million good stories. when the article comes out, i'll point you in that direction. in the mean time, here's my favorite quote from the interview:
(when asked what draws him to collecting things)
"A lot of people don’t realize but this is all man-made. And when you think about it, my god. We’re so creative in doing all this. And these are hands of many, many people that made them, you know? Machines of course too. But the ideas and all. I mean, I have so many friends here in a way.”
if you keep moving back into the space, you pass through his equally crowded office, then a very narrow bedroom, then his living room/dining room/kitchen. he has a HUGE grand piano in the middle of it all, where his cat likes to rest, and tons of crazy kitchen gear. (he used to be a butcher and still likes to cut up his own meat.)
i talked to him for two hours and he was amazing. i almost cried twice. (see post below for further examples of this new epidemic.) he's incredibly open and loving and told a million good stories. when the article comes out, i'll point you in that direction. in the mean time, here's my favorite quote from the interview:
(when asked what draws him to collecting things)
"A lot of people don’t realize but this is all man-made. And when you think about it, my god. We’re so creative in doing all this. And these are hands of many, many people that made them, you know? Machines of course too. But the ideas and all. I mean, I have so many friends here in a way.”
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