Until she was three years old, Julia Eisenman was dressed exclusively in white, at the insistence of her father, Peter Eisenman, the theorist/ringleader of the neo-Corbusian architectural clique once called the "New York Five." And it wasn't just her--all the walls of their Riverside Drive apartment in New York were white. "At school, the girls had Laura Ashley wallpaper and plush carpeting and I was like, 'I want Laura Ashley wallpaper!' And my dad said, 'No. No. The most I'll give you is one wall in your bedroom with a color on it.' So I got one bluish-purplish wall. That kind of pissed me off, because I was like, 'why can't we just paint the whole room?'"From Andrew Blum's interviews with architects' children, originally published in the July/Aug 2004 issue of Dwell. My Father, The Architect [andrewblum.net, via unbeige]
I remember thinking that was so sad when I read it and then I thought, what would happen if my daughter wanted Laura Ashley wallpaper? I would probably ban it, too. But then, I am not opposed to color. Just Laura Ashley.