{"id":6497,"date":"2010-12-05T23:58:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T07:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2010-12-05T23:58:17","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T07:58:17","slug":"malplaquet-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/malplaquet-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Malplaquet House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am I the last one to know, again??<\/p>\n

If not, check this out. Malplaquet House<\/strong><\/a> is an 18th century brick mansion in East London, that hadn’t been occupied for a hundred years until 1998, when a pair of historians\/designers moved in and let their compulsive hoarding run rampant. Now, after 12 years, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan<\/strong> and Tim Knox<\/strong> are ready to sell the place and and find fresh environs to clutter.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

The house is breathtaking, in a Miss Havisham meets Tony Duquette kind of way. More is Not Enough here, and you certainly get the feeling that these guys have several more tons of antique statues and taxidermy stacked up in storage somewhere.<\/p>\n

Even the bathroom is a shrine to their insanity. (Click to expand the picture)<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

In a hallway, there are enough antlers to make all of Williamsburg and Los Feliz cry bitter tears of envy.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

I feel ambivalent about this place. \u00a0 Except for the dead things, it has a baroque faux-religious aesthetic that I personally favor in my own house. And I like obsessive art, as I keep saying. But the thought of being surrounded by this much crap…..and the way it’s \u00a0 just thrown \u00a0 everywhere almost randomly…I think no.<\/p>\n

One day in Malplaquet House would probably convince me to throw away all my hoarded old crap and live in pristine minimalism like a monk. But I would love to spend an hour there, just to ogle all that maniacal splendor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"