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Brad Pitt Set To Furnish French Brangelina Love Nest With Least Sexy Furniture He Could Find
Posted by Molly Friedman at 3:10 AM on June 6, 2008
Angelina Jolie wasn't kidding when she went on (and on) about über-husband, highbrow architect and sometimes-actor Brad Pitt's obsession with home design in this month's Vanity Fair. As we noted on Tuesday, Jolie spent much of the VF cover story gushing about Pitt's ability to design and teach her how to make the light look just right in all seasons (side note — are we the only ones who find this incredibly unsexy? Hell, it's Brad Pitt. Nevermind). But on a recent jaunt to Switzerland, he dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars on in an effort to furnish upcoming Chosen Two Perfection Facility with furniture that is high on style but low on comfort. From scratchy aluminium rugs to chairs that do not look suitable for any variety of chair sex (wild or otherwise), we took a closer look at Brad's shopping spree after the jump.
As the Post reports, Pitt recently spent some time at the Design Miami Basel fair buying the hollowed out table we see at bottom left for nearly $300k, in addition to two ergonomic chairs like the ones at top left. That horrendous rug we see at bottom right is made of aluminium, which saves the planet and all that boring stuff, but looks like it's made of cardboard and may puncture tiny Shiloh's perfect feet. As for that monstrosity at top right, Pitt apparently expressed "interest" in a silver version, which is fiberglass and "lacquer-finished." Meaning the pair can get as wet as they want while canoodling on it, but will most likely just slip off it onto their crunchy granola rug. Hot.
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snappyface
Posted 4:04 AM 6/6/08
@shag_carpet_bomb: I also remember a post-breakup interview she did in which (I think) she said one of the good things about divorcing him was now being able to own a comfortable couch.
Speaking of Jen, how is she handling all of this?
snappyface
Juancho
Posted 4:04 AM 6/6/08
@shag_carpet_bomb: I think she still owns a lot of the art/photography he bought when they were married. When she was a GQ Woman of the year in 2005, she still had it hanging on her walls. Seriously.
Juancho
Beppo
Posted 3:58 AM 6/6/08
Bachelor pad? Yeah, if he's gonna pick-up Judy Jetson.
Beppo
kookla
Posted 3:55 AM 6/6/08
Maybe this is for his bachelor pad?
kookla
Beppo
Posted 3:43 AM 6/6/08
"My woman's very pregnant with my twin babies, so I bought her the most uncomfortable couch ever made in the history of couch-making."
Passive-aggressive much, Brad?
Beppo
shag_carpet_bomb
Posted 3:35 AM 6/6/08
I kind of remember an interview with Jen from when they were still married, and she was sort of eye rolling about the severe furniture in their house. She made a comment about how would they baby-proof this? Anyway - I sort of took note because I was living in a warehouse in Oakland at the time, and thought maybe I could score some used furniture if the Aniston-Pitt's ever decided to procreate. I guess not.
shag_carpet_bomb
CourageousCoward
Posted 3:34 AM 6/6/08
Like interest in Brad Pitt himself, taste is totally subjective. Blech. To both.
CourageousCoward
Calraigh
Posted 3:29 AM 6/6/08
@KNau: That is in no way shocking.
Calraigh
lojofosho
Posted 3:29 AM 6/6/08
that rug looks like a dirty trisket.as for my rug,you could eat off it.theres part of a pretzel under the coffee table.oh here's a peanut.
lojofosho
KNau
Posted 3:19 AM 6/6/08
So it's going to be a hipster "I bought my personality at Ikea" pad like some stock broker or porn mogul?
KNau
snappyface
Posted 4:08 AM 6/6/08
@snappyface: Here's a link, if anyone cares. [www.vanityfair.com]
snappyface
SanFranBetsu
Posted 6:51 AM 6/6/08
There will be no end to the childrens' discomfiture.
SanFranBetsu
Decebal
Posted 7:21 AM 6/6/08
300K for that table? Does it come with tweezers to get the splinters out of the children's fingers?
You do have to give him credit. In his own loving way, he wants to make sure the kids understand what a dangerous world they live in..... just in case they get shipped back to the third world country they came from, when you know, they stopped being cute and adorable.
Decebal
shag_carpet_bomb
Posted 7:53 AM 6/6/08
Oh, they'll end up like every artist/designer I know, one room in their house devoted to primary color, plastic little tikes crap and speckled shag carpet, walking around humming the theme from Wonder Pets.
shag_carpet_bomb
mockingbird
Posted 8:27 AM 6/6/08
Wow, she's such a nice boss to let the manny pick out some furniture.
mockingbird
uncle_wiggly
Posted 11:18 AM 6/6/08
Would Howard Roark where pants like that? I remember my uncle starting wearing those kind of jazzy plaid golf trousers after he retired.
uncle_wiggly
Losin_it
Posted 2:42 PM 6/6/08
Brad seems like a wannabe cook who cooks a potato with fifty ingredients just because he is fascinated with the technical aspects of cooking, and imagines that's what real life professionals do too. No. Aside from the flights of fancy of a few, the design industry is about comfort and practicality, similar to how real life chefs try to bring out the best in simple ingredients. But Brad is a wannabe, a poser. He woudn't know that.
Losin_it
ASmallTurnip
Posted 11:46 AM 7/6/08
Shhhh... I kind of dig that chair top left. I'd worry about losing my hipster cred by admitting this, but I gave it up for Lent last year. I'm still duly shamed, though.
ASmallTurnip