It’s Alexander Calder’s 113th birthday. This is where he lived.  The author, photographer Pedro Guerrero, first took his camera to Calder’s Connecticut studio in 1963, on a routine assignment with an editor from House and Garden magazine. As soon as they arrived at Calder’s shambly, magical, jam-packed home, Guerrero could sense that the editor was less than enthralled. “If I had known you were going to photograph that room,” she later sniffed, “I would have straightened the slipcovers.” “What a thing to notice!” writes Guerrero, who was, as he put it, “plotting my next move.” Over the next 13 years, he photographed Calder, often with his beautiful wife, Louisa, in different houses and studios, all of them mesmerizingly overflowing with wire sculptures, homemade toys for their grandchildren, stabiles, mobiles, piles of mail, chairlike contraptions, and sculptural kitchen paraphernalia. “Be careful where you step,” Calder warned Guerrero in the studio, “everything here is important.” Image from Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder by Pedro Guerreo. More here. 

It’s Alexander Calder’s 113th birthday. This is where he lived. 

The author, photographer Pedro Guerrero, first took his camera to Calder’s Connecticut studio in 1963, on a routine assignment with an editor from House and Garden magazine. As soon as they arrived at Calder’s shambly, magical, jam-packed home, Guerrero could sense that the editor was less than enthralled. “If I had known you were going to photograph that room,” she later sniffed, “I would have straightened the slipcovers.” “What a thing to notice!” writes Guerrero, who was, as he put it, “plotting my next move.”

Over the next 13 years, he photographed Calder, often with his beautiful wife, Louisa, in different houses and studios, all of them mesmerizingly overflowing with wire sculptures, homemade toys for their grandchildren, stabiles, mobiles, piles of mail, chairlike contraptions, and sculptural kitchen paraphernalia. “Be careful where you step,” Calder warned Guerrero in the studio, “everything here is important.”

Image from Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder by Pedro Guerreo. More here. 

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