Gossip, celebrities and embroidery
This week Lilly Allen released her album West End Girl, where she portrays her troubled marriage to David Harbour in songs like “Pussy Palace”, ‘Nonmonogamummy’ and “4chan Stan”, with very literal and specific lyrics such as:
"Never been in Bergdorf's
But you took someone shopping there in May, '24
You bought her a handbag, it wasn't cheap
I was in London, probably asleep
Did you go to Montauk for the weekend?"
Then the internet went crazy and the infamous video from a few years ago, of the couple showing their house for the Architectural Digest channel, went viral again. And I obviously went to watch it, since I’m 100% the target audience for this kind of thing.
Watching the video after listening to the songs is also pretty weird, but I'm not here to talk about the couple's dynamics, nor the house. Although the house has some peculiarities that I won't be able to avoid mentioning, so I will talk a little bit about it, hehe.
What caught my attention the most was the bathroom/bedroom. The bathroom is gorgeous, it doesn't even look like a bathroom, and it has beautiful carpet. Did I find the decision to put carpet in the bathroom a bit questionable? Well, yes, but who am I to judge?
The carpet continues from the bathroom and, through a sliding door, we have the only access to the couple's bedroom. I have to say, this room I did judge a little bit. It doesn't have a single window. None. Zero, nothing. There is no natural light, except indirectly through the bathroom windows. Convince me that this isn’t weird.
Now let's get to the original reason that brought me here: I'm a total dork and wanted to show these two pieces of embroidery that they have in the house.
One of them is this magnificent flamingo embroidery, which is in the claustrophobic bedroom. No one said it's embroidery, but in my professional opinion, it's a beautiful cross-stitch embroidery. At least it looks like it is. Maybe it's not, but to me it is.
The other and most important one is this small cross-stitch piece that decorates the bathroom, which Lilly Allen describes as “our embroidery of sexually transmitted diseases,” such as... salmonella? Pneumonia? Common cold? Did I miss something? I don't get it.
And that's it, I just wanted show these two pieces. Honorable mention for the TV room that’s almost entirely in tiger print. I just think they should have gone further and done the walls too.
PS: I can't believe I wrote and posted this.
portuguese version here