Onetime East Village antiques dealer John Eaton has made his home in an industrial space upstate. See inside his art-filled loft in a former garage
The Living Room: The first thing Eaton moved in with was “a sawhorse table that a friend helped me make. I found the bases for like $50 and had a top made.” Later, the dining table from his New York apartment came. The 1940s Chinese-inspired embossed leather screen is French. The large abstract painting on the left wall, Untitled , is by Chris Fitzwater. The Hercules sculpture to the left is by Italian artist Ugo Cipriani.
The treasures he’s living with include a self-portrait by the local artist Earl Swanigan , who painted many murals around Hudson. He has a handmade Welsh stick chair by local artisan John Porritt . There are also pieces he shipped back from France — Eaton recalls lugging the pair of mid-century-modern armchairs, now in his living room, back to his Paris apartment balanced on his head, as the taxi couldn’t make it from the flea market owing to last year’s yellow-vest protests.
If there is one piece that speaks to the poetic sensibility of Eaton’s eye, it would be the wood frame of a 19th-century side chair, seen below, accessorized by what looks like a piece of stone positioned on the back. “It’s just a frame,” Eaton muses.
Another view of the living room. Photo: James Autery “The chairs are super-comfortable, probably from the ’80s,” Eaton says. The painting on the 19th-century French easel is a self-portrait by Earl Swanigan, who called it “Frankenstein Monster” Earl. The painting on the back wall is a landscape study by Chris Fitzwater. The console against the back wall, Eaton says, is “an American folk-art piece. It has a lot of character. The legs are not perfect.
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