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Been on many shoots in my former (ok, not-so-former) life as a fashion editor. For all the fun and laughs that I worked hard in conjuring among the crews, I have to admit no experience was as enjoyable as Sunday's shoot for Martha Stewart
Living magazine. Maybe it was because instead of sweatin' it behind the camera, we got to be powdered and posed in front of it.
Trina Turk and her other half Jonathan Skow were absolutely lovely to include us in their supper party by the pool for 10, a story starring the pair of them with friends at their landmark home in Palm Springs, the restored Streamline Moderne "Ship of the Desert." (Got to love a house with a name, especially one so ironic as this one). The home was christened this by
Sunset magazine in 1937, when it featured the newest beacon of Art Deco by Los Angeles architects Erie Webster and Adrian Wilson.
Six decades later, Trina and Jonathan enlisted Marmol Radziner, a firm based in Santa Monica, to carefully restore and update the 4,400-square-foot, five-bedroom home. Actually, Jonathan took it upon himself to obsessively search out the perfectly period door handle or counter.
The panoramic views of the endless desert and surrounding San Bernadino Mountains alone are stunning. Coupled with Trina and Jonathan's thoughtful furbishing of the place, and it was almost too much to take in on a single afternoon.
Thankfully, in some ways, there was the distraction of all those marvelous crew members sent by Martha Stewart, who had Trina on the show just last month. This particular feature will appear in the May 2010 issue.
I even submitted myself to Trina's makeup artist, a gregarious redhead named Augustine, who complemented my hot chartreuse goddess dress with some fierce eyeliner. You could almost hear the sounds of a Theremin with my Liz Taylor-meets-
Star Trek look. Loved it.
Even more, though, Jonathan's imaginative menu. After all the repeat servings and posed spontaneity, we were thrilled to finally chow down the delicious courses (made from sustainable and organic ingredients, naturally) once the cameras stopped shooting and a zany man in plaid pants and a ZZ Top beard named Fritz gave us the thumbs up.
