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I felt really connected to its ‘20s art deco architecture, its exterior, and all of its original mouldings and details. I was a single mother and was looking for a building with a sense of safety when I found this loft space in Hollywood. As my career as a songwriter grew, I wanted to find a place where we could have a bit more grounding, a home life there with more stable roots. I would bring my son, who was one or two years old, to LA for these recording sessions. I had moved with my son back to Houston after living in Idaho for a brief time, and I was doing a lot of songwriting for other artists. It was a time of getting to know myself as a young woman and as a mother. So much of what Solange makes is about the process of how she made it, the routines, repetitions, and rituals, the calendar of days and ways that inform how she relates to her work, the things she sees around her every day. With all of this in mind, I sat down with Solange to discuss the life of this apartment through the years, among many other things. This loft has been there through all of it, the private island where her public investigations of space register themselves in the small, mundane arrangements of her everyday life. Her home is as much a site of memory as a place to live, as so many other homes are. She is also an archivist, a collector of Black stories, our peregrinations, and the objects that carry them.

Other times she works at the scale of a sofa in the round or a glass vase a melody or an intonation. These are sometimes built out in the world at the scale of a territory she has designs only capable of being surveyed from the sweep of an aerial shot, like a rodeo arena or a beached spaceship. If there has been one constant in Solange’s multidisciplinary practice, it has been a deep, personal investment in world-making, in creating spaces both interior and exterior where aesthetics and affect, the seen and the felt, collide and form architecture. It almost goes without saying, Solange Knowles is very fly. Beyond all of this, the space looks very fly. It is the private residuum of a nomadic life spent travelling around the world and making art. The space is a mix of organic modernism, her own furniture designs, and Black art and vernacular objects she has collected over the years.

Los Angeles: For most of Solange Knowles’ adult life, she has had the same loft a quiet, serene oasis set above the 24-hour buzz of downtown Hollywood. This article is featured in Apartamento magazine issue #30, click here to order your copy!

Dead space 2 interior concept art dead space 2 interiors