What you’ll find here is the juxtaposition of glamour, celebrity, and high society, spanning from the 1940s to the present. It’s pop culture personified, a place where the most famous faces in the world are on the walls, exchanging glances, crisscrossing generations, having imaginary conversations about who and what came before and who is emerging now.
It’s a room where Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow chat with Kim Kardashian and David Bowie. Where Lizzo and Cardi B sip tea with Gloria Vanderbilt and Queen Elizabeth. The common thread? Grace Jones, the ringleader. To be a fly on the wall.
It’s a showcase of John’s most prized photographs, a place where he exhibits the work of personal friends like Ellen von Unwerth, Jean-Paul Goude, and the late Roxanne Lowit. And the stars on the wall? Many of them are friends of John too.
This blue-on-blue-on-blue wonder of a room tricks the eye in endless ways.
Alina Cho
Excerpt from Behind The Blue Door, Vendome Press
