The Buckland Religion~Official Thread

[Tash]

 

 

[TraceOddity]

So many memories. Thanks to Everyone who shared or allowed me to share their pictures and Stories. A huge Jonny-sized smile goes out to all of you! Thanks to Jonny for being so sweet and beautiful, and for showing me the joy of playing leads on a Fender Telecaster guitar. Find me on facebook and Coldplayers. And if the miracle happens and this forum keeps going, keep sharing the pics, the smiles...and the CAKE!:heart::jonny::heart:

 

[ItzMarit]

Thank you for all the pictures, a big Jonny smile to you! <3

[TraceOddity]

Screencaps made by Row (Comicforce).

 

 

And Posted by Dee (wabbit)

 

[Lodova]

 

 

Umm, nice tattoos and piercing! :lol:

[TraceOddity]

:lol:

[Guest LiquidSky]

who made that????

[TraceOddity]

Somewhere (not me) with photoshop and time on their hands!

[Lodova]

Well, Chris and Will have tattoos already, so maybe it's time to Jonny also to make some? :laugh3:

[Comicforce]

Screencaps made by Row (Comicforce).

 

 

And Posted by Dee (wabbit)

 

 

You're welcome Tracie. I am glad you liked them.

 

Anyone who wants more. I have lots of screencaps of the entire gig just PM me if you want a link.

[Tash]

 

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[Tash]

 

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[Lodova]

Some screenshots from Sound Relief. Jonny is so adorable when he plays piano :heart:

 

 

[TraceOddity]

Some screenshots from Sound Relief. Jonny is so adorable when he plays piano :heart:

 

 

 

Awesome! Thanks.:D:dazzled:

[Texasluvsjonny]

[gai]

a treat for jonny fans :)

 

HOUSE TOUR: COLDPLAY'S JONNY BUCKLAND AT HOME

Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland brings a touch of rock-and-roll spirit to his family's Manhattan loft, enlisting a young design firm that loves to paint it black.

 

In our collective fantasy, a British rocker's downtown Manhattan crash pad would be strewn with pricey vintage guitars, empty beer bottles, and a lithesome model or two. The smell of clove cigarettes (or something stronger) might hang in the air, an artfully defaced Union Jack tacked to the walls.

 

But reality is rarely as predictable. In fact, the New York pied-à-terre of Coldplay's lead guitarist, Jonny Buckland, is best described as clean, both literally and aesthetically. Elegantly minimal and flooded with light, it is an ode to dark neutrals, organic materials, and—has rock and roll really come to this?—wholesome family life. Like his bandmate Chris Martin, who is married to Gwyneth Paltrow, Buckland is thoroughly, happily domesticated. He and his jewelry-designer wife, Chloe, have two children, six-year-old Violet and two-year-old Jonah.

 

 

Their loft, in a 19th-century Romanesque Revival building on Astor Place, near the epicenter of Greenwich Village, is a home base for them when Buckland is working in the U.S. The couple spend most of their time in the tony Belsize Park area of London, but they come stateside several times a year, often staying in the apartment for a month or more. "We wanted it to be bright and happy for the kids and calming for us," says Chloe, who grew up in England but spent a great deal of her childhood in Jamaica, where her mother's family has lived for generations.

 

 

As a couple in their 30s, they knew they wanted to work with a design team that shared their young, urban sensibility. They chose Ashe + Leandro, founded by interior designer Ariel Ashe and architect Reinaldo Leandro. "It was very easy for us to channel their taste," says Ashe, who first made the musician's acquaintance in 2001, when she was an assistant designer at Saturday Night Live and Coldplay performed on the show. The two were reintroduced years later through friends. "We speak their language; we have the same references," Ashe says. The two young designers "got right away that we like things that are sort of masculine and full of right angles," adds Chloe.

 

 

The 2,100-square-foot two-bedroom apartment was disappointingly bland when the Bucklands bought it. Though the 11-story brick building has 13-foot-high ceilings and an imposing, landmarked facade with giant arched windows, virtually all of the historic details had been stripped from the inside spaces. The previous owners hewed to lackluster neutrals, and the doors and walls were standard contractor-issue. The kitchen, a focal point of the open-plan layout, was huge but generic.

 

Now, perhaps the most striking aspect of the radically updated space is the bold use of matte black, on floor-to-ceiling built-in shelves, a library ladder, a corridor of closets, the kitchen cabinets—even the outside of the claw-foot bathtub that has been installed in a newly created arch in the master bath.

 

 

The combination of the dark palette, white spaces, and liberal use of strong woods throughout makes the apartment feel both modern and timeless. The plain oak floors have been replaced with salvaged antique herringbone, stained dark and vibrating with character. The dining table is a thick, heavily grained wood slab, and the large kitchen island is mahogany butcher block (not hard to maintain, the designers promise, if you keep it well oiled). Because the windows are so large, there is never a chance of the effect seeming somber. Instead, the interiors perfectly marry the Bucklands' civilized London aesthetic with their love of downtown Manhattan's gritty history. On the wall of the living area hangs a tall drawing by Dave Muller of a collection of record-album spines, a nod to the fact that rock royalty is in residence.

 

 

"Neither the Bucklands nor we are much for safe, dull things," says Ashe, who recently completed the greenrooms for the new incarnation of Late Night with Seth Meyers. "We're not afraid of shades of black; black is our thing."

 

Chloe, who came into the project with a thick folder of photos she had torn out of magazines, is also a fiend for clean, straight lines. Perhaps the biggest conflict she had with Ashe and Leandro—they joke about it now—was their insistence that the kitchen backsplash, which runs up to the ceiling, be made of round white penny tiles. "I was pretty nervous, because I really am not that into round things," Chloe says, laughing. "But they were completely right."

 

 

Another priority was a playroom for the kids, not an easy-to-solve problem in a loft layout. So Leandro sliced off one end of the kitchen, enclosing it to make a cozy hideaway that also functions as a corridor to the children's room. It has French doors at either end and built-in cubbies for toys, with walls done in blackboard paint.

 

 

While there are a few pieces of classic modern furniture, including chairs by Roland Rainer and Eames, the designers avoided larding the space with pricey finds. "We weren't about to spend $60,000 on something," Ashe says. "They want a home that can be lived in, where their kids can be comfortable. They're not looking to impress anyone. They're the opposite of that. They're genuinely cool."

 

 

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[Jonny and the cake]

Awww they are so cute

[Batman]

N'AW

 

 

 

That's one fancy ass place to live in ..

[Lodova]

I'm truly happy for them. Jonny has such a beautiful family. :heart:

[laga]

Aww, so cute! Such a lovely family! :heart: and really nice house!

[KatePT]

His family is so cute! :D

[jeremyy]

Like his bandmate Chris Martin, who is married to Gwyneth Paltrow,

 

:cry: :cry:

when did they write that article..?

[TraceOddity]

[Jonny and the cake]

i love how in the new songs he plays the piano more ofter than the actual pianist in the band

[fakfak]

a treat for jonny fans :)

 

HOUSE TOUR: COLDPLAY'S JONNY BUCKLAND AT HOME

Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland brings a touch of rock-and-roll spirit to his family's Manhattan loft, enlisting a young design firm that loves to paint it black.

 

In our collective fantasy, a British rocker's downtown Manhattan crash pad would be strewn with pricey vintage guitars, empty beer bottles, and a lithesome model or two. The smell of clove cigarettes (or something stronger) might hang in the air, an artfully defaced Union Jack tacked to the walls.

 

But reality is rarely as predictable. In fact, the New York pied-à-terre of Coldplay's lead guitarist, Jonny Buckland, is best described as clean, both literally and aesthetically. Elegantly minimal and flooded with light, it is an ode to dark neutrals, organic materials, and—has rock and roll really come to this?—wholesome family life. Like his bandmate Chris Martin, who is married to Gwyneth Paltrow, Buckland is thoroughly, happily domesticated. He and his jewelry-designer wife, Chloe, have two children, six-year-old Violet and two-year-old Jonah.

 

 

Their loft, in a 19th-century Romanesque Revival building on Astor Place, near the epicenter of Greenwich Village, is a home base for them when Buckland is working in the U.S. The couple spend most of their time in the tony Belsize Park area of London, but they come stateside several times a year, often staying in the apartment for a month or more. "We wanted it to be bright and happy for the kids and calming for us," says Chloe, who grew up in England but spent a great deal of her childhood in Jamaica, where her mother's family has lived for generations.

 

 

As a couple in their 30s, they knew they wanted to work with a design team that shared their young, urban sensibility. They chose Ashe + Leandro, founded by interior designer Ariel Ashe and architect Reinaldo Leandro. "It was very easy for us to channel their taste," says Ashe, who first made the musician's acquaintance in 2001, when she was an assistant designer at Saturday Night Live and Coldplay performed on the show. The two were reintroduced years later through friends. "We speak their language; we have the same references," Ashe says. The two young designers "got right away that we like things that are sort of masculine and full of right angles," adds Chloe.

 

 

The 2,100-square-foot two-bedroom apartment was disappointingly bland when the Bucklands bought it. Though the 11-story brick building has 13-foot-high ceilings and an imposing, landmarked facade with giant arched windows, virtually all of the historic details had been stripped from the inside spaces. The previous owners hewed to lackluster neutrals, and the doors and walls were standard contractor-issue. The kitchen, a focal point of the open-plan layout, was huge but generic.

 

Now, perhaps the most striking aspect of the radically updated space is the bold use of matte black, on floor-to-ceiling built-in shelves, a library ladder, a corridor of closets, the kitchen cabinets—even the outside of the claw-foot bathtub that has been installed in a newly created arch in the master bath.

 

 

The combination of the dark palette, white spaces, and liberal use of strong woods throughout makes the apartment feel both modern and timeless. The plain oak floors have been replaced with salvaged antique herringbone, stained dark and vibrating with character. The dining table is a thick, heavily grained wood slab, and the large kitchen island is mahogany butcher block (not hard to maintain, the designers promise, if you keep it well oiled). Because the windows are so large, there is never a chance of the effect seeming somber. Instead, the interiors perfectly marry the Bucklands' civilized London aesthetic with their love of downtown Manhattan's gritty history. On the wall of the living area hangs a tall drawing by Dave Muller of a collection of record-album spines, a nod to the fact that rock royalty is in residence.

 

 

"Neither the Bucklands nor we are much for safe, dull things," says Ashe, who recently completed the greenrooms for the new incarnation of Late Night with Seth Meyers. "We're not afraid of shades of black; black is our thing."

 

Chloe, who came into the project with a thick folder of photos she had torn out of magazines, is also a fiend for clean, straight lines. Perhaps the biggest conflict she had with Ashe and Leandro—they joke about it now—was their insistence that the kitchen backsplash, which runs up to the ceiling, be made of round white penny tiles. "I was pretty nervous, because I really am not that into round things," Chloe says, laughing. "But they were completely right."

 

 

Another priority was a playroom for the kids, not an easy-to-solve problem in a loft layout. So Leandro sliced off one end of the kitchen, enclosing it to make a cozy hideaway that also functions as a corridor to the children's room. It has French doors at either end and built-in cubbies for toys, with walls done in blackboard paint.

 

 

While there are a few pieces of classic modern furniture, including chairs by Roland Rainer and Eames, the designers avoided larding the space with pricey finds. "We weren't about to spend $60,000 on something," Ashe says. "They want a home that can be lived in, where their kids can be comfortable. They're not looking to impress anyone. They're the opposite of that. They're genuinely cool."

 

 

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I remember what it looked like in the photos from the article about them buying it several years ago. They've obviously done a ton of work, but it looks way better now. For some reason though, I wouldn't have guessed his decor aesthetic would be so modernist.