“Stardust Memories” Interior (1980)

Artist/Designer: Woody Allen, Robert Greenhut, Charles H. Joffe, Jack Rollins, Gordon Willis, Mel Bourne, Steven Jordan, Michael Molly

Project Location: New Jersey

Style/Period(s):
Minimalism

Primary Material(s):
No Primary Material Assigned.

Function(s):
Residential Structure, Entertainment, Film/TV Set

Related Website(s):

Significant Date(s):
1980

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:
Kirkham, Pat, Sarah A. Lichtman, and Timothy M Rohan. “From Sex to Narcissism: Understanding Ninimalist Interiors in New York Films of the 1970s.” Essay. In Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias, 125–41. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.

The term was coined by Tom Wolfe in his article “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Thrid Great Awakening,” New York Magazine, August 23, 1972, 26-40.

For example of the art world’s recognition of Bennett, see the article that Art in America commissioned short-story writer Jean Stafford to write about Bennett and his apartment: Jean Stafford, “Profile: Ward Bennett,” Art in America 54, no.6 (November-December 1966):44-7.

Barbaralee Diamonstein, Interior Design: The New Freedom (New York: Rizzoli, 1982), 19.

See Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. Richard Nice, with a new introduction by Tony Bennett (Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1979; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010).

Building Address: 21 Pilgrim Pathway, Ocean Grove, NJ 07756, 205 Jumping Brook Rd, Neptune City, NJ 07753, Asbury Park (New Jersey, USA), Belmar (New Jersey, USA), Deal (New Jersey, USA), Hoboken (New Jersey, USA), Neptune City (New Jersey, USA), and Ocean Grove (New Jersey, USA).

Significant Dates: Released on September 26, 1980

Supporting Staff/ Designers: Woody Allen (Writer, Producer), Robert Greenhut (Producer), Charles H. Joffe (Producer), Jack Rollins (Producer), Gordon Willis (Cinematography), Mel Bourne (Production Designer), Steven Jordan (Set Designer), Michael Molly (Art Director)

Tags: Minimalist, all-white walls, neo-liberal city

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