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Residential: Bathroom
This bath is actually located near the beach - but you might be fooled into thinking it’s actually located in the 1940s...
Not to disappoint, but the walls aren’t actually draped in canvas, either.
Michael Lee painted the entire bathing tent first, and then began to decorate piecemeal, with found objects appropriate to the scene - just as you would decorate a real room.
The exposed section of the wall beneath the window is fashioned from aged cedar, the hats from straw and ribbon. The treasures on the rattan shelf were no doubt discovered on one of on dreamy walks along the beach. Can you find the keys to the boat?
(All imagining aside - the glass bricks are the only “real” object in this photo!)
Bathing beauties, vintage postcards, passes for the beach - dappled memories of a time and place long gone... Note the refractive distortion that causes the birds-of-paradise to appear “broken” as they enter the water of the transparent vase.
Here the protruding wooden molding of the doorframe interrupts the flow of the fabric, which falls naturally to the side.
Michael Lee is fond of saying that he always works with what he is given.
This “before and after” shot gives a glimpse of the power of Michael Lee’s vision to transform the size, shape, and narrative context of any room.
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