See inside a maximalist condo in the Bronx that’s all about freedom. DHWendyGoodman reports 📷: Patrick Cline
It’s “a design book that is also actually a history book,” says Mason. It profiles 16 homes all over the country, from the Harlem opera singer turned chef Alexander Smalls, to Bridgid Coulter and Don Cheadle’s family getaway in Kona, Hawaii. It also weaves in the evolving story of Black history citing the challenges and the triumphs of Black homeownership in America.
Living as sharecroppers in South Carolina before migrating north in the 1970s, John’s grandparents had a well-established facility with growing, and John had an attraction to things that grew. The garden was a world that drew him in immediately. “A plant will become a flower on the way to becoming a vegetable. But I was always fascinated by the flower portion of it. Even a flowering squash, when you look at it, is a beautiful flower,” he muses.
Photo: Copyright 2022 by Patrick Cline. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Penguin Random House. John has amassed a large collection of African masks over the past decade. Above the sofa, a few of his favorites are on display. His evolution led from painting to drawing to fashion, taking him to New York’s High School of Fashion Industries and then college at the Fashion Institute of Technology. “I was drawing garments,” he says, “but I wanted to be able to make the garment. So I started taking pattern making. That’s where I really started getting a lot more creative.” Though an artist at heart, John would land a job in technology after school, working with computers at Goldman Sachs.
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