So back in January, we told you how Architectural Digest was planning to name Tony Ingrao to its 2014 AD100 list. For those of you not familiar with this list, it honors people it deems to be “the world’s best interior designers and architects.” And for those of you unfamiliar with Tony Ingrao, he’s the property owner in Denis Bay who was fined last year for building on and altering land owned by the National Park Service.
Take a moment to digest that if you will…
Not only has Architectural Digest honored Ingrao for his design and architectural skills, it also devoted an eight-page spread to his Denis Bay home in its 2014 issue – the same Denis Bay home that created an eyesore on the North Shore. But what riles me up the most is some of the verbiage used in the article. Take the headline for example:
“Making the most of a lush hillside spot, the duo carve out an exhilarating retreat overlooking the azure sea.”
Carve out. Yes, they certainly did carve out something over there in Denis Bay – they carved out a chunk of the National Park.
Let’s move on to the first sentence: “Americans are accustomed to taking liberties, especially when it comes to architecture.”
Ingrao certainly took some liberties when building his property. He built on other people’s land, created a landslide and carved a huge chunk out of the hillside.
But Ingrao’s quote near the end of the article is the pièce de résistance: “This house is elemental. It feels like it’s growing out of the park.”
That’s because it is.
Comment away my friends. Comment away.
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