Ep. 299: Romantic Modernism with Bobby McAlpine

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.4 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Our guest this week is renowned architect Bobby McAlpine. His eponymous firm, McAlpine, is known for blending modern and traditional elements to create bold, soulful, and poetic homes meant to capture imaginations while still feeling familiar. Bobby joins the pod to talk about his new book, Romantic Modernism, out on March 21st, and discusses some of the sculptural elements he brought into the architecture, the influence theater and drama have had on his work, and the personification of his home including knowing his boy house needed a sister. Bobby also shares what life on a private island is really like and how we can include soft yet beautiful drapery in our homes to give us that romantic yet modern twist. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: How the silver and gold crayons represent classicism and modernism to Bobby. How Bobby decides when to really go for it in some elements in the house and when to remove them. How has the experience of living in the house in Atlanta been compared to what Bobby imagined when designing it? What it’s really like to have a private island in the world. How Bobby balances being in the world of both architecture and art. What would Bobby tell a student starting their first year of school now? The importance of choosing materials that are timeless. Many of us build more than we want and need, and a good house is not a long real estate amenities list of things. Mentioned in This Episode: Ballard Designs McAlpine Romantic Modernism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home.
0:08.7	Each week will help you unleash your inner decorator.
0:11.6	I'm Caroline, and I'm on the marketing team.
0:13.7	And I'm Taryn, and I'm a product designer.
0:15.8	And I'm Liz.
0:16.5	I head up the Ballard creative team.
0:18.2	We're your host. Join the expert team at Ballard Designs
0:21.6	for tips, tricks, and tales from interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world.
0:25.9	Plus, we'll answer our listener question at the end of each show. So don't forget to send them
0:29.7	to podcast of Ballarddesigns.net. Yes, we love answering them. Now on with the show.
0:35.6	Okay, our guest today is renowned architect Bobby McAlpin. His eponymous firm
0:40.5	McAlpin is known for blending modern and traditional elements to create bold, soulful, poetic homes
0:46.5	that capture our imagination while still feeling familiar. McAlpin's prolific work has been featured
0:52.5	in Lux Magazine, Veranda, Architectural architectural digest, flower magazine, and many more.
0:57.7	They're also on the 80-100 list and have published three books in partnership with Rosoli, the most recent of which publishes this month, March 21st, Romantic Modernism.
1:07.4	This, okay, so this book, Romantic Modernism is so, it's a lovely book. It's so beautiful. And it's combining so many different ideas, like romantic and modernism are two totally disparate ideas. So I want to know, how is it that you come about mixing these two totally different thoughts, where
1:30.2	modernism can sometimes be thought of as a little bit too structured or cold and romanticism
1:36.3	might be too whimsical or soft or playful, but you do this so lovely.
1:41.9	Well, thank you.
1:53.0	This book is a little bit of a departure or an advancement, however you would look at it from our previous work.
1:56.4	We really are romantics.
2:03.4	I'm a romantic, really just meaning that I love, I'm willing to beg bar and steal whatever it takes to tell the story, you know, who I've just met.
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