A divorce turned an art studio into a full-time apartment with an uptown feel.
into the Firestone tire empire in 1973 and was raising a family in D.C. when she bought the loft. She came up once or twice a month to work on vibrant oversize paintings and massive sculptures made of neon, bronze, and steel. There was no kitchen. But 12 years later, Firestone divorced, losing her home in D.C. She ended up moving to the loft simply to “survive,” she said. “It was the place I had. I had to make it a home.
Firestone added the cheery kitchen in 1998, after a divorce pushed her out of her house in D.C., and she transformed what she had bought as an artist’s studio into her full-time home. Firestone has worked in seemingly every medium, even making enormous sculptures in steel — like the cascading form that helps divide a living area from a dining room.
Firestone added the cheery kitchen in 1998, after a divorce pushed her out of her house in D.C., and she transformed what she had bought as an artist’s studio into her full-time home.
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