{"id":41050,"date":"2014-05-07T13:01:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=41050"},"modified":"2014-05-07T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T17:04:28","slug":"re-envisioning-clawfoot-tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2014\/05\/07\/re-envisioning-clawfoot-tub\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-envisioning the Clawfoot Tub via Andr\u00e9e Putman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We keep stumbling on brilliantina interior designer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/21\/arts\/andree-putman-global-interior-designer-dies-at-87.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9e Putman<\/a>&#8216;s clever, simple, visionary plays on ordinary objects. Here she hacked a clawfoot tub way-before-her-time, by replacing the claw feet with giant balls to give the tub a completely &#8220;other&#8221; modern look. It retains the comforing depth, length and back-slope of the classic clawfoot.<\/p>\n<p>Putman used this tub idea in a number of interiors, some times forging the balls out of marble or other stone.\u00a0The premise is totally doable&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41054\" style=\"width: 673px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clawfoot-tub-TANGER-2007-Andr\u00e9e-Putman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41054\" src=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clawfoot-tub-TANGER-2007-Andr\u00e9e-Putman.jpg\" alt=\"?\" width=\"673\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clawfoot-tub-TANGER-2007-Andr\u00e9e-Putman.jpg 673w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clawfoot-tub-TANGER-2007-Andr\u00e9e-Putman-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clawfoot-tub-TANGER-2007-Andr\u00e9e-Putman-277x422.jpg 277w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/clawfoot-tub-TANGER-2007-Andr\u00e9e-Putman-328x500.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;The claw feet of the classic tub are bolted on, and so can be unbolted (There&#8217;s lots of info and videos online.) \u00a0We once had 9-inch in diameter hard-wood balls made to do a similar thing with a kitchen island. WHY NOT buy or have stone hard wood balls made and afixed to a tub?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41055\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/claw-foot-ball-taub-andree_putman-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41055\" src=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/claw-foot-ball-taub-andree_putman-4.jpg\" alt=\"?\" width=\"550\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/claw-foot-ball-taub-andree_putman-4.jpg 550w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/claw-foot-ball-taub-andree_putman-4-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/claw-foot-ball-taub-andree_putman-4-337x422.jpg 337w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/claw-foot-ball-taub-andree_putman-4-399x500.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What we love most is Putman&#8217;s thinking: she retained the beautiful lines and feel of the classic clawfoot tub and modernized it by changing the feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We keep stumbling on brilliantina interior designer Andr\u00e9e Putman&#8216;s clever, simple, visionary plays on ordinary objects. Here she hacked a clawfoot tub way-before-her-time, by replacing the claw feet with giant balls to give the tub a completely &#8220;other&#8221; modern look. It retains the comforing depth, length and back-slope of the classic clawfoot. Putman used this&hellip;<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2014\/05\/07\/re-envisioning-clawfoot-tub\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[134,6554,127,6548,8362],"tags":[7543,7542],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Re-envisioning the Clawfoot Tub via Andr\u00e9e Putman - Improvised Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We keep stumbling on brilliantina interior designer Andr\u00e9e Putman&#039;s clever, simple, visionary plays on ordinary objects. 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