"Then in her mid-30s and ascending the corporate ladder at Estée Lauder, where she forged a stellar career as a product innovator and marketing mastermind, she had acquired a site in the historic centre of Telluride, the Colorado ski resort. Pawson had not yet designed a private residence in the US. But she took him to dinner, and in time-honoured tradition, he sketched out an idea on the paper tablecloth, along with a calculation of what it would cost. The result was a much-published stone-and-timber structure, for which he designed all the furniture too."
"The Callahan is still dear to Walsh. "It's a wonderful piece," she says of his understated studies of skeletal grasses and reeds against snow. "Pure and minimal. I have never gotten tired of it. It still makes me happy to look at it. I think it cost $1,000." (A small gelatin silver print, also of trees in snow, fetched $254,000 at Sotheby's in 2010.)"
Catherine Walsh met architect John Pawson in 1997 and commissioned him to build a house on a Telluride site she had acquired. Pawson sketched a concept and cost on a paper tablecloth and designed a published stone-and-timber residence, including its sparse furniture. Walsh assembled an art collection beginning with a Harry Callahan photograph she bought at 22 before owning a sofa. She values the Callahan for its minimal purity and long-lasting pleasure. Walsh moved to New York in the mid-1980s to work at Revlon after growing up in rural Pennsylvania and later worked at Estée Lauder.
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