20 CHESTER AVENUE
July 3rd, 2007
A week later, the architects had clearly let their imaginations run riot, transmogrifying a simple but large (20 rooms) house in Brooklyn into a remodeling experiment designed with David Lynch in mind.
Mr. Lynch, who made the movie “Blue Velvet” and the television series “Twin Peaks,” has a strange sensibility — and so has the client.
“We’ve never seen this guy,” Mr. Voorsanger said, speaking of the imaginary client as if he were real — and elusive. “He refuses to see us. He just writes us letters and communicates through e-mails. He said he was enormously moved by Cormac McCarthy’s new book, ‘The Road,’ in which everything is black. Chip Kidd did the cover.”
The way the architects tell it, they suggested to the client that he turn the driveway into a garden.
“But he would only approve it if it were ‘a landscape of no hope,’ ” Mr. Voorsanger said, while his colleagues — now including Peggy Loar — nodded.