Robert Reichert House Zine by Adelaide Blair

$8.00

“In 2015, my husband and I bought a weirdo house on the north end of the Queen Anne neighborhood in Seattle. I had been checking the online property listings every day, and eventually, this unusual-looking house came onto my radar. It was covered with blue siding, on the corner of a busy street, and had recently been a rental. None of which appealed to me. But I was interested in its unusual shape; one side of the roof was much higher than the other. It was ugly and the carpets smelled bad and there was a weird room built into another room that seemed to make no sense. But it had good bones, and as we went downstairs to leave, we saw a newspaper clipping of how the house had looked in the 1950s, and man, was it a different beast.

That house was covered in geometric graphics, which turned into a piece of art as well as a living space. Turns out, the 1954 house was the home and studio of architect Robert Reichert. We thought it might be fun to give the house some of its former character back, so with the guidance of architect Stefan Hampden, we restored the exterior and created an interior inspired by Reichert but not limited to the sparseness of his original. It is a working house; I have my art studio here and am making this book in the same room where Reichert did a lot of his thinking. He does not haunt this place, but his ideas reverberate through time, and I often have him sitting in the back of my mind while I work on my own art.” - Adelaide Blair

5.5” x 8.5”

*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.

“In 2015, my husband and I bought a weirdo house on the north end of the Queen Anne neighborhood in Seattle. I had been checking the online property listings every day, and eventually, this unusual-looking house came onto my radar. It was covered with blue siding, on the corner of a busy street, and had recently been a rental. None of which appealed to me. But I was interested in its unusual shape; one side of the roof was much higher than the other. It was ugly and the carpets smelled bad and there was a weird room built into another room that seemed to make no sense. But it had good bones, and as we went downstairs to leave, we saw a newspaper clipping of how the house had looked in the 1950s, and man, was it a different beast.

That house was covered in geometric graphics, which turned into a piece of art as well as a living space. Turns out, the 1954 house was the home and studio of architect Robert Reichert. We thought it might be fun to give the house some of its former character back, so with the guidance of architect Stefan Hampden, we restored the exterior and created an interior inspired by Reichert but not limited to the sparseness of his original. It is a working house; I have my art studio here and am making this book in the same room where Reichert did a lot of his thinking. He does not haunt this place, but his ideas reverberate through time, and I often have him sitting in the back of my mind while I work on my own art.” - Adelaide Blair

5.5” x 8.5”

*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.

Adelaide Blair (she/her) is a project-based artist whose research-centered practice allows her to interact with and learn about the world. She is interested in distributed intelligence, and many of her projects involve elements of collaboration or participation. Her subject matter has included ghosts, artificial intelligence, the Greek tragedy Philoctetes, reproductive terms used in printmaking, the Dirty War in Argentina, and networks of corruption in the contemporary art world. She has a Substack newsletter, Sell the Painting, where she mostly writes about the financialization of art, but also uses that space for experimental artmaking and other forms of art writing. Originally from Southern Oregon, Adelaide resides in Seattle, Washington and has an MFA from The Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Instagram: @Adelaide_Blair

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