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P 153. Downstairs
shower
P 154. Showcase for
works of glass
The renovation was preceded by a six-month planning phase with professional
architects; the couple talked with the architects about their desire to
display their collection, in addition to a few favourite items that they wanted to
include in the apartment’s interior decoration.
Once the renovation had started, both the professionals and Rea, along with
her husband, spent considerable amounts of both money and time making sure
that every detail in the apartment matched their taste. They supervised the renovation
work and visited the site nearly every day, and they took part at least in
the acquisition of interior decoration details. For example, Rea told me how it
had taken a long time to hunt down appropriate showers and door handles (P 153).
R: we put huge amounts of time into finding the right showers, the right
doorhandles (pause). The doorhandles will come from France because
it wasn’t possible to find really decent ones from Finland. So these are
French design and they have hundreds of designs which change over
the years, hundreds of variations, bronze and whatnot. So we looked
at different shades of this (Rea 04 180-185)
They also designed the showcases for their glass pieces (P 154) and, for example,
consulted artists about where to place some of their major works of art. The
result pleased Rea, but she said that there were still a few occasions during
which she was not yet completely satisfied. For example, it had been difficult to