INT. DAVID BAUER’S APARTMENT - NYC - EVENING
Curated by Jenny Ulving McCabe, in collaboration with Jacksons Design
INT. DAVID BAUER’S APARTMENT - NYC - EVENING
Curated by Jenny Ulving McCabe, in collaboration with Jacksons Design
Drawing on years of experience in film and TV as well as a passion for contemporary art and design, Jenny Ulving McCabe has transformed Jackson Design’s gallery into an experience of luxury that is both immersive and cinematic. Staged to look like a stylish, sumptuous loft in lower Manhattan, the convincingly inhabitable space is equal parts fantasy and reality. The décor, which features mid-century Scandinavian and Italian furniture by the likes of Paavo Tynell, Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, Sven Markelius, Wilhelm Kåge, Carl Malmsten, Mario Ceroli as well as a selection of artworks by Georg Baselitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barry X Ball, Pae White have been carefully curated to suit the taste of a highly discriminating collector, David Bauer, who also happens to be a fictional character.
In the spirit of cinematic storytellers and style icons like Luca Guadagnino, Stanley Kubrick, Tom Ford and Anthony Minghella, Ulving McCabe has taken a character from her own screenplay and created an environment that tells us more about his personality, status and desires than could ever be gleaned from dialogue and costumes alone. Oozing wealth, style, comfort and confidence, every detail of the apartment has been carefully considered, from the lamps and rugs to the vases filled with fresh flowers and bowls of perfectly ripe fruit. The incredibly lush mise-enscene is enhanced by a sense of intrigue that is pure cinema. Like an empty movie set waiting for actors to appear and bring the scene to life, Bauer’s home elicits a thrilling feeling of anticipation. The table is set for dinner and ambient music hums on the stereo. Wandering through the space–perhaps relaxing on a sofa or pausing to smell a blossom–visitors have a chance to “meet” their host before he emerges and the party begins. Haunted by an invisible yet omnipresent man of the house, David Bauer’s apartment is a place of privilege, intimacy and pleasure.
Open to the public from 13th June 2023 until the 16th of September 2023, from Tuesday to Friday, 12pm to 5.30pm, Saturday, 12pm to 4pm at Jackson Design, Sibyllegatan 53, Stockholm.
Curation: Jenny Ulving McCabe
Design: Jacksons Design
Art: McCabe Fine Art
INT. CASA LEVER RESTAURANT - NYC- DAY
DAVID BAUER, a handsome man of class and international social stature in his mid 50’s, is seated at a table below two long lines of Andy Warhol’s Celebrity silk screen paintings, in the posh restaurant.
While peering through Sotheby’s art auction catalogue he’s sipping on a glass of red wine.
Tulips, 1988 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
LUCILLE
Any ways. I never thought they’d get along but apparently I was wrong... They get along splendidly.
DAVID
David shots Lucille a look.
It sounds like it. You have to start acting on what you want in life Lucille. You don’t want to come out on the losing side. Do you?
DAVID (CONT’D)
Lucille shakes her head uneasily. David picks up the auction catalogue. On the open page is a painting of a distorted face in the colors of dark black, green and purple.
DAVID (CONT’D)
What do you think?
Lucille peeks at the page in front of her.
LUCILLE Francis Bacon?
David nods.
DAVID
It’s undervalued considering how great it is. Do you like it?
LUCILLE
It’s... Intense. But at the same time beautiful. Are you bidding on it?
DAVID
That’s the plan. I’ve been trying to get this piece for a while but now is the right time. The seller is desperate.
Lucille takes another sip of her wine and tries to figure out the picture in front of her.
DAVID (CONT’D)
Why don’t you ask your friend to come along to the auction? I have an extra ticket.
Lucille frowns her eyebrows.
