Tasteful friends: Fran Lebowitz, seated & smoking, conducts a critique of a NoHo loft
The popcorn ceilings, the location, everything done to the space she hates. Ad she's not wrong.
The three level loft's owner is architect turned creative director Marc Balet with whom Lebowitz worked at Interview magazine 30 years ago when he bought the place - against her advice.
There's a recent Homeworthy YT video as have often featured in Tasteful Friends threads about Ballet and the loft. It's awkward and far too long, like all of the Homeworthy videos.
I don't hate lofts. On principal I like them. It's just that so many things can go wrong just as they do here. Ballet win the Prix de Rome and had as a young man an exhibit at the Whitney of his conceptual architecture designs, but there's no staggering architectural talent at work here. It's an interesting space, interesting as a dirt of open scrapbook of his Warhol days and catalogue of friends and aquaintances (Lebowitz figures prominently on memory wall for want of a more descriptive term.) It's a very personal space, everything very much to the owner's taste and requirements. A boozy your would be great fun. It's huge. It must be very valuable. It's just not a beautiful space.
The video is under 4 minutes and more interesting for Fran Lebowitz subset of Tasteful Friends. A better view of the loft is the Homeworthy tour.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 20, 2023 3:25 PM
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The long tour of the loft
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 11, 2023 10:09 AM
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It snot long and its not awkward. They are very old dear friends and Fran is doing her shtick. He's heard it eleventy zillion times and must like it because he's friends with Fran.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 11, 2023 10:21 AM
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Oh, is R1 the too long one? I see. Well I don't see because I don't need to watch that. I saw it all in under 2 minutes in the trailer!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 11, 2023 10:22 AM
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There are some stunning pieces - but so much stuff crammed in.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 11, 2023 10:38 AM
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I like it much better in the long video..it’s amazing. Those stairs look treacherous though!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 11, 2023 11:50 AM
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I recently watched the Fran documentary by Scorsese. Took me a while to warm to it, but I wound up loving it. Still laughing at Fran talking about how hilarious and embarrassing it would be to be eaten by a bear.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 11, 2023 12:01 PM
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I’ve always loved 💕 Fran’s BDE
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 11, 2023 12:03 PM
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Very interesting place. A ton of fantastic artwork.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 11, 2023 12:39 PM
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"I don't want to be amused by decor."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 11, 2023 12:49 PM
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According to this, it is off the market now.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 11, 2023 1:17 PM
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Love the wall of photos in the first video.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 11, 2023 1:58 PM
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Fran and Toni Morrison were scissor sisters
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 18, 2023 5:41 PM
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Fran’s being an asshole in this sad little video. That’s ok, except it’s not really funny or interesting. I know she is really smart and can be clever and funny, but I don’t see any of that in evidence here.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 18, 2023 6:30 PM
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She's at her best riffing like this. Unfortunately most of the time she is given a microphone and carte blanche to bitch and she is insufferable.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 18, 2023 6:39 PM
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The longer clip is more interesting. I’d call this guy a charming older man, likely jacked up on growth hormones, but attractive and colorful. That huge place is impressive and he was very smart to lock it down the way he did. Among all that tat are some very valuable things, and he must know that, but his attachment and personal connections are real and interesting (to me, at least). He must have really looked after himself to look like that at 80. That tight athleisure wear doesn’t keep any secrets, though. He would look nicer in normal clothing.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 18, 2023 7:09 PM
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I love Fran. Fuck you all
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 18, 2023 8:06 PM
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So much BDE, she could scissor granite
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 18, 2023 8:20 PM
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I was today years old when I learnt that Fran and Toni Morrison were lovers!!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 18, 2023 8:28 PM
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Another Fran lover checking in. Well, not literally but you know...
Remember an interview where she said she was a crap girlfriend (but great regular friend).
One of her first jobs was writing term papers for Ivy league students. Maybe she helped George Bush out?
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 18, 2023 9:15 PM
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I don't know who that Fran lady is, I thought it would be ANNIE leibovitz, I was shocked to see Isabelle Adjani on the cover, , wow remember when she was hailed as the new Vivien Leigh ? I would love Marc to give me a long tour of his dick. I love sexy older daddies
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 18, 2023 9:28 PM
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Fran and Toni Morrison were not lovers even though Fran wanted it badly.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 19, 2023 11:40 AM
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R25 there are many photos of the 2 looking like a couple and I recall Holland Taylor alluded to them being a couple on some podcast
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 19, 2023 4:01 PM
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Fran could just sit there and do nothing but smoke, and I'd love her. Those little moves she does with her fingers when she talks are outstanding. She was just born funny.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 19, 2023 4:28 PM
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That horrible woman is not funny at all
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 20, 2023 6:57 AM
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The long video was fantastic. He seems a really nice guy and obviously loves the place. I agree with another poster, I wouldn’t want to use those stairs. I wonder were he will move to?
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 20, 2023 3:25 PM
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