Tom of Finland spent his final decade living and working in a Craftsman in Echo Park. Today, the house is billed as the world’s largest repository of erotic art.
this look, very biker ‘Sons of Anarchy,’” Ocampo says, pointing to a 1980s drawing of muscle studs astride motorcycles, their low-rise jeans snug over pneumatic rears that threaten to torch the page. A few flips later, he taps another Tom of Finland work, landing inspiration for his fetish-inspired apparel line.Ocampo’s search takes place in a 1911 Echo Park Craftsman that’s command central for all things Tom of Finland.
The home’s owner, Durk Dehner. The bond between him and the artist began with a fan letter Dehner sent in 1976 upon spotting a drawing by Tom of Finland in a leather bar.As the holder of Laaksonen’s legacy and 40-year proprietor of “,” Dehner is still “that guy.” In 1976, his homespun yet tough leatherman look won bar trophies and Tom of Finland’s attention. He had just appeared, with his easy grin, blond locks and thick mustache, in fashion photographer Bruce Weber’s book “Looking Good.
The two men swap tales of Tom of Finland’s final blast of a decade in L.A., the late July breeze flavored by Sharp’s Marlboros. Fronted by a fortress hedge, their cross-gabled house is perched at the crest of Laveta Terrace lined with Mexican fan palms soaring nearly 100 feet — a swaying beacon amid Echo Park hills.
Front porch ashtrays brim with stubbed cigarettes and cigars. Camouflage netting shields the open-air stoop from a yard parked with decommissioned Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The home is indeed part frat house. But an initial front porch glimpse can be deceiving. Trans folk gravitate to Tom art and the property because it provides “a kind of role modeling that they can grab on to and utilize for their own development — which is exactly what Tom did,” says Dehner, his blond hair and goatee a trim contrast to Sharp’s long hair and liberal beard.“It’s not that the younger ones are not interested” in storied queer history, Dehner adds. “They are. They just need to be invited.
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