This art and color loving client was downsizing from a family home to a new townhouse for her and her husband closer to a more walkable, pedestrian-friendly part of town. They brought an art collection they had been collecting for decades. We needed to first decide which pieces were the highest priority to incorporate in the new design. All of the pieces in these spaces are works from their personal collection that we built the design around.
In the living room, a neutral fabric base allows the larger upholstered pieces to recede and the colorful, abstract, painterly fabrics and art to shine. Blue brush strokes around the lamps continue our art reference, and since the viewer is looking through doors and windows in the client’s Thomas Mcknight pieces, it seemed like a natural transition around the room for the eyes with the windows and doors in the space.
We fabric-lined the elevator, which makes a perfect marriage between the different floors of color, pattern and art letting you off of the 4th floor and opening you up to the rooftop entertaining space. This floor is used primarily for entertaining and family nights, which gave us license to take a bold approach. This Italian plaster wallpaper is made in the Puglia region of Italy. The mixture is composed of 27 high-quality raw materials, including lime, Carrara marble grains, and Roman Travertine, a mixture of natural elements with a long, all-Italian history.
The Picasso-esque lines and shapes of the powder room wallpaper, again sourced from the same Italian manufacturer, creates a sense of motion as the eye traces around the abstract form of faces and hands, and texture is rendered in 100% handmade plaster paper. In addition, we custom designed this vanity out of a blue marble slab from France.
The client wanted to keep her dining set, so we brought the pieces into this era with a sharp blue velvet and gave the cow pride of place, both in the space and surrounded by pastures in the flanking artwork. We pulled colors from her existing china pattern and bold saturated colors from the surrounding art to modernize the furniture, blending old and new seamlessly in a transitional approach.
We incorporated the client’s collection of sculptures, art, glass vases and pottery from their world wide travels to accessorize and style the tables and consoles.
