.rachel_handler revisited one of the most important works of art that Barbra Streisand has ever put forth: 'My Passion for Design,' her mammoth, madcap coffee-table book on the construction and design of her sprawling compound in Malibu
Photo: Douglas Kirkland/Corbis via Getty Images Barbra Streisand is supernaturally good at almost everything: singing, acting, writing, directing, cloning. She is chutzpah in human form, an iconoclast who has looked both Nick Nolte and death in the face and said, “Feh!” She is so hard-core that she once made Larry McMurtry vomit out his car window after a friendly game of tennis.
And while we await her alleged future memoir, it may be the most significant attempt at a distillation of Barbra, a true manifesto written in her sublime voice, which is a conversational stream of consciousness, lousy with randomly placed ellipses and anecdotes about her dozens of dismissed architects and Steven Spielberg’s use of GPS. “Sometimes I’m impatient … too impatient to wait until I find the right thing,” she writes while lamenting her perfectionism.
Photo: Rachel Handler 5. On Perfect Logic: “And then an idea occurred to me. I had some leftover fabric so I designed a dress to match the loveseat. Why shouldn’t you wear clothes to match the room? It seemed perfectly logical to me.” Photo: Rachel Handler 9. On Indecision: “I’ve always wanted chickens. Shouldn’t a barn have animals? I wish we had room for cows … pigs … I love pigs. But the most I’ve been able to manage is chickens. We have 22 of them and one rooster. At one point I decided to give him away because he does that crow thing all day long and I thought the neighbors would complain. But the next day I missed him, so I had him picked up and brought back.
13. On That Palace: “In Vienna I saw the most beautiful herringbone floor in one of the palaces. I measured the width of the boards and sent pictures back to my crew, telling them that this was how I wanted the floor to look in this room. What palace was that? It’s famous. I sang in front of it. Oh God, this is terrible. And it’s not age. I never know where I am. I’ve lived in London several times but I couldn’t tell you where unless I looked it up.
17. On Staffing: “I always had an assistant devoted to this project, and at least one draftsman on site every day so any idea I had could be drawn.”
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