Forget his Pritzker, RIBA Gold Medal and elevation to the House of Lords, Richard Rogers receives the ultimate accolade in the latest New Yorker. Journalist-cum-housebreaker Deborah Kogan sneaks into the great man's Chelsea bedroom and is 'permanently altered'. She writes: 'I opened Richard Rogers' sock drawer and started to cry. It was beautiful. It was perfect. It did not only what a good sock drawer should do - organise socks - it did what great works of art aspire to do. It took the bedlam of everyday life, organised it with careful attention to spatial harmony, colour balance and composition, and transformed it from chaos to order, from ordinary to extraordinary, from a simple container for necessities into a perfect expression of the artist's philosophy - Minimalism, bright colours, functionality, form.
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