Designs for Living, from A to Z
If your initials span the alphabet, can you be blamed for thinking that you can do it all?
Andrea Zittel seems to have been destined for self-sufficiency. The 42-year-old artist’s work positions her as the lovechild of Buckminster Fuller and Martha Stewart. Her achievements include manufacturing customizable living units and “escape vehicles,” crafting carpeting that doubles as furniture, designing a uniform of seamless dresses from alpaca and felted wool (very Rick Owens), breeding chickens (which required registering herself as a hatchery in order to procure the requisite supplies) and creating a 45-ton island (a “Pocket Property”) anchored off the coast of Denmark — adventures that she documents in writings, drawings, photographs and PowerPoint presentations. She is her very own lifestyle brand. (more…)
