(The master bedroom of Schnabel’s duplex, with Picasso’s Femme au Chapeau)


"The artist Julian Schnabel is famous—too famous—for possessing such a big ego that he thinks he can do anything. The list of job titles attached to his name—painter, sculptor, furniture designer, filmmaker—keeps getting longer. But what if he really is that rare being, a true Renaissance man?



(A view of Schnabel’s main hall, with terrace door.)


The latest clue is a stop-you-in-your-tracks work of architecture he’s just now finishing up in Greenwich Village. Plunked smack on top of the early-20th-century factory building where the artist has long lived and worked on far West 11th Street is a Pompeii-red palazzo, stuccoed on the outside, with five huge residences, plus a studio for Schnabel, some serious exhibition space, and a swimming pool fit for Citizen Kane.



(Palazzo Chupi’s ground-floor lobby.)


The place looks as if it began life in Venice on the Grand Canal, somehow floated up the Hudson River, moored on the West Side Highway, then hoisted itself atop its three-story “pedestal.” The building even has a fanciful name, announced on its front: Palazzo Chupi, after the nickname of Schnabel’s Spanish wife, Olatz.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/03/schnabel200803

Our man, Julian Schnabel, meine Damen und Herren.
Der Mann, der gerne im Pyjama vor die Haustuer geht.
http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/09/05/want-to-come-to-a-pyjama-party/

Pyjama-Schnabel im einstuendigen Interview mit Charlie Rose.
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/01/31/1/an-hour-with-julian-schnabel

Mehr zu Villa Chupi.
http://curbed.com/tags/julian-schnabel
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_215/notsopretty.html

Schnabel als Hoteldekorateur
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/garden/03hotel.html?ei=5088&en=0d17e7ad9e602204&ex=1312257600&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1154641001-OjpBpX5YEpk7M5jz8+le8A

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Wenn wir fuer ne Woche mal mit einem Menschen tauschen koennten um ein vollkommen anderer zu sein - ich denke, Schnabel waere ganz oben auf meiner Liste... - Welch Spass und Energie!
(p.s. - es wuerde uns auch interessieren, was - nach den Ruecktausch - Julian Schnabel mit dem CFC angestellt haette... - interessant... vielleicht klappt es ja irgendwann... - Wir werden berichten.)


http://www.thevillager.com/
http://www.vanityfair.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://curbed.com/