To set the record straight, it is a coincidence that I have the same sneakers she has, and the same recipe for baked chicken, and, yes, a landscape over my fireplace that was painted by the same artist who painted the one hanging over her fireplace.
Here you can see his fowling piece hanging above a fireplace.
The low point for me is a Frank Stella shaped copper painting, the 1964 "Slieve Roe," hanging over a fireplace.
He returns to his room, all Swedish whitened wood with a steel fireplace hanging on the wall.
Maybe it is the subversive classicism of the casts of human arms that enables Bruce Nauman's "Bound to Fail," hanging above another fireplace, to succeed.
He calls it a "boring house," suburban in style, with a portrait of his parents (who were married for 57 years) hanging over the fireplace.
The plush décor is designed around the autumnal color scheme found in a painting hanging above the fireplace, a landscape of Lake Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, where Mr. Rombough's family had a cottage for 40 years.
Pancakes sizzle to a golden brown on a griddle hanging in the fireplace, eggs are scrambled over hot embers and corn bread cooks in an iron spider pan in the hearth.
And sometimes, coming from someone who had a cult following as a pianist in his 20's but did not become a star until later, they sound autobiographical: Once upon a time I was no wunderkind Due to my obstinacy Though I became one later Other poems in "Cursing Bagels" describe pianos hanging in a fireplace like blackened hams: "smoked pianos sound nobler".
Amusingly, hanging over the fireplace in the entrance to the building is a sculpture by the art world's agent provocateur Maurizio Cattelan.
