It might even still have blow on it, and who knows what else …” It’s worn and scratched, probably put there by Warhol and his entourage. “David got it before anybody appreciated Nakashima,” he says. The two have a joke between them to signal when something’s too important to give up. “David will say, ‘That’s going to the rest home with me,’” says Prince, who cops to only one item that he would take with him: a Nakashima coffee table purchased at a Sotheby’s auction of Andy Warhol’s estate. David likes really fine English furniture, but that’s never been my cup of tea.” Five years in, I started editing quite a bit. Then, I changed the wall colors in the house. “Within the first couple of years, David let me do the loft, which is now my bedroom. So, how does a man who “needs a sense of space,” as Prince describes himself, coexist with a confirmed collector such as Lackey? He bides his time. “You don’t just move into someone’s house and start making big changes,” Prince says. That’s more interesting to me at this point.” It’s not about how old it is it’s about the glaze, the color, the shape. I started collecting years ago certain shapes of vases that are globular at the bottom, with skinny necks. “I’m also very attracted to round objects, spheres, globes, and I spread them out all over.
In fact, you can see something with a hands or feet motif in almost every room in the house.
“Right now, I’m more interested in aesthetic collections, such as objects that depict hands or feet,” he says. He likes a lot of things around.Īt home, it’s all about his many diverse collections - and there are hundreds. I moved around every year or two, and I’d only move with what I could fit into my car.” Lackey, proprietor of the highly regarded David Lackey Antiques & Art at Antiques of River Oaks (where Prince has worked since 1998), is a longtime appraiser on Antiques Roadshow. “All through my adult life, I’ve not liked having a lot of possessions. Prince is a self-avowed minimalist who arrived at Lackey’s Montrose-area townhouse in 2000 “with practically nothing, just my clothes and my art,” he says. Both are artists and antiquarians, but the two couldn’t be more divergent in how they relate to the stuff of their lives - collections, furniture, art, even trash. “I think nothing of letting objects flow past me, but David wants to reach out and keep,” says Russell Prince of his partner in business and life, David Lackey.
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