Let's Play The Proust Questionnaire with Kate Linstrom of objets trouvés!

I thought The Proust Questionnaire would be a fitting (and fun) interview format for fellow Francophile Kate Linstrom, the designer behind the label objets trouvés. You can check out Kate's exquisitely intricate styles for sale at Le Train Bleu and visit her own site to learn more.

• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Confinement. Having basic freedoms taken away and being monitored every hour of your life would be insufferable.

• Where would you like to live?
Paris (specifically in Le Marais district).


• What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Lifelong friends.

• To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Trying to squeeze too many things into one day.

• Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye) and Bernard Mickey Wrangle, an outlaw bomber known as the Woodpecker in Still Life with Woodpecker.

• Who are your favorite characters in history?
Cleopatra

• Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Joan of Arc’s story is incredible.

• Your favorite painter?
Ooh this is a tough one, too many to choose from!
I love the usual suspects: Pablo Picasso & Henri Matisse and then from there the list could go on forever…Wassily Kandinsky, Takashi Murakami, Agnes Martin, Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley…it’s hard to pick a favorite!

• Your favorite musician?
Another tough one to narrow down. Arcade Fire, Serge Gainsbourg, Bat for Lashes, Beatles, Beirut, Cat Power, The Cure, Bob Dylan, The Decemberists, Duran Duran, Wilco, Jenny Lewis, Morrissey, Prince, Elliot Smith, Thom Yorke.

• The quality you most admire in a man?
Honesty & Sense of Humor

• The quality you most admire in a woman?
Stability & Sense of Humor

• Your favorite virtue?
Love

• Your favorite occupation?
Traveling & Designing

• Who would you have liked to be?
I find Cleopatra fascinating, it would have been wild to be in her shoes.