Exhausted
by life in Manhattan, John-Paul Philippe decided to migrate to a tiny
wooden cabin in the wilds of Connecticut. With just birds (and the
occasional bear) for neighbours, the artist and his partner have carved
out the most seductively simple wabi-sabi-style existence, where they’ve
little choice but to commune with the landscape and nature...
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The chairs were made by prisoners in Maine
After
several years of living and working in his Manhattan studio, he began
to feel worn down by the city and found himself drawn once again to
nature. In 2007, he came across this cabin with five acres of land in
Connecticut.
The previous owner, John McNeely, was a naturalist and
ornithologist. He first spied the little dwelling at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and
went on to dismantle and reconstruct it on his land in Litchfield
County... McNeely kept an Andean condor named Veedor and a golden eagle at the cabin,
and he would fly both at local shows. He’d made a clearing to land his
microlight, but otherwise left the terrain untouched for the sake of the
birds and biodiversity.
In John-Paul Philippe he saw someone who would become a proper custodian, treating his estate in the right spirit.
He
found the tub in a field near the remains of a demolished house and has
crowned it with a shower-curtain rail made from a steam-bent branch. In
order to admit sunlight into the bathroom, he has also removed some of
the chinking from between the cabin’s logs
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