Dutch Mountain home is a spacious single family house
situated on a historical agricultural plot, amidst hayfields and woods, in a nature reserve in The Netherlands. To minimize disturbance of the landscape, the
house is embedded in an artificial hill.
The contrast between the shell and the rooms is visible. The concrete wall, needed to retain the mass of the mountain, is left unfinished.
It’s certainly an extraordinary sustainable home. The couple that owns it created a whimsical work of art.
The house is bold and unpredictable, not only in the furnishings, but look at the thermal heater in the middle of the dining room. Wood pellets are used for heat in combination with low temperature heating.
Talking about recycling, these stairs are made of skateboards.
In the purple kitchen, they’ve hung furniture every which way to create a very fanciful effect.
The 30 yr. old car they drove furthers their “green dream” and has been immortalized as a kitchen cupboard by nailing it to the wall.
On the south side, the house has been opened to a maximum.
The grand glass façade is framed in timber, which guides the transition from the artificial to the natural.
Bedrooms, bathrooms and utility rooms are stacked up at the rear of the house in front of an exposed concrete wall that separates them from the piled-up earth behind.
Over the past two decades, Blatt has become a one-man clearinghouse for everything seedy in Hollywood—the fixer you call when you want to see whether the thing you have that could humiliate a famous person is worth anything.
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Blatt serves as a bridge between the lawyers, the tabloids, the celebrities, and the people with something to sell—pocketing a percentage or a consulting fee from as many of those parties as possible. Each deal is unique, and he is often surprised by how a situation plays out, but his goal is to capitalize on clickability, leveraging either the story or a star’s dread about its potential for virality to make as much money as he can.
Over the years, he’s helped suppress proof of a married rapper getting head at a club; a former boy-bander’s penchant for drugs and sex dungeons; an entertainer’s alphabetized collection of hardcore BDSM porn; and two professional athletes playing video games, staring at the screen, while one woman goes back and forth performing oral sex on both. Guitarist Dave Navarro once told New York magazine that he was grateful to Blatt for helping him keep a bondage tape off the internet.
