He is a builder from the other side of the looking glass, a designer who thrives on employing familiar materials in unfamiliar ways. During the past seven years, Murphy, 40, has built a thriving design business through calculated outrageousness. Pig chairs might sit somewhat uncomfortably in the offices of most architects. Carlisle-is this redundant?-has sort of a thing about pigs. They are on the way to the home of rock star Belinda Carlisle and her film producer husband, Morgan Mason, which Murphy is renovating. The pig chairs came from an artist in Berkeley who specializes-is this redundant?-in unusual furniture. “These are period pigs,” says Murphy, deadpan, peering inside the boxes. And not just any pigs: pigs elaborately decked out in full Elizabethan garb-porcine princesses. To be precise, what’s sitting in Murphy’s office are two otherwise ordinary chairs with finely detailed pigs carefully painted on them. Murphy’s small Santa Monica office are the first pig chairs he has ever commissioned. INSIDE THE crates marked “fragile” stacked in the reception area of architectural designer Brian A.
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