Douglas Friedman’s monograph Full Spectrum presents his extensive access to fashion, celebrity, and design figures, reflecting a jet-setting yet hardworking lifestyle. The book’s color-organized images include fashion legends, first ladies, pop stars, and major designer and architect projects. Friedman’s Long Island retreat is a cloistered 1870 house in Brookhaven. He identifies Steven Gambrel as his top designer choice and Martha Stewart as the best landscape partner because she understands his life. Collaborators saw the property’s potential, describing it as charming and bohemian, or a charming wreck. Friedman allowed Gambrel and the team to work freely within his own point of view to create a comfortable, sophisticated country home suited to his collections.
"“Even before I bought this house, if you asked me who I'd most want to work with out of all the designers in the world, the answer would be Steven Gambrel,” the photographer says of his longtime friend and AD100 mainstay. “And for the landscape, I obviously couldn't do any better than Martha Stewart. She knows me, and she knows how I live.”"
"Gambrel describes the existing property as “charming and kind of bohemian.” In characteristically Martha fashion, Stewart puts a finer point on the subject: “It was a charming wreck, a plain Long Island house.” Either way, there was plenty to work with to fashion a comfortable, sophisticated country home that could accommodate the photographer's wide-ranging collections."
"“I basically let them do whatever they wanted to do, within the parameters of my own point of view,” Friedman notes."
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