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Delavegacanolasso for Tini Devises a Modular Showcase Garage for a Madrid Home

60 days. That’s the length of time Madrid-based modular home company Tini promises construction and installation of its units, which are designed by Ignacio de la Vega and Pilar Cano-Lasso, both also of architecture firm Delavegacanolasso. That estimate includes customization, and although there are two standard sizes for Tini modules—253 and 366 square feet—many clients combine them to meet their specific spatial needs.

For a Madrid residence, two units were joined to create a 560-square-foot showcase garage for the family’s 1948 Porsche 356 and 1959 Austin Healey 3000. The architects customized the modules to accommodate six lindens on the verdant site. “We adapted the width and length of both structures, so we had no need to touch the trees,” de la Vega explains. “As a result, from the first day the pavilion looked as if it had been there for years, totally integrated in the garden.”

The pavilion’s frame is weathering steel, while the 29.5-foot-long facade is composed of a trio of manually operated sliding doors with vertically oriented 2 ¾-inch-wide pine slats that allow light and air into the space. Interior plywood boards were painted a dramatic matte black to highlight the vintage cars, while the floor is a treated prefab concrete slab. The architects set down a pair of black Barcelona chairs and a custom pine side table to create a lounge area within the pavilion. Though less than 200 feet from the main residence, the garage feels light-years away.

A 1948 Porsche 356
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LASSA Architects Creates a Curvaceous Concrete Structure in Methoni, Greece https://interiordesign.net/projects/lassa-architects-creates-a-curvaceous-concrete-structure-in-methoni-greece/ Mon, 23 May 2022 15:30:05 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_project&p=196032 LASSA Architects leverages a low-cost and reusable foam formwork to create a private residence with public gallery in Methoni, Greece.

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After fabrication was complete, the foam formwork was reused as the house’s insulation. An aerial view reveals how the completed structure anchors into the gently sloping olive grove.

LASSA Architects Creates a Curvaceous Concrete Structure in Methoni, Greece

LASSA Architects leverages a lightweight, low-cost, and reusable foam formwork to create a curvaceous concrete structure for a private residence with public gallery in Methoni, Greece. Take a look at the making of this eye-catching build below.

LASSA conceived a structure with an aerodynamic X-shape massing that creates a series of protected courtyards—one in each wing. To execute the organically curved form in concrete, the architects hatched a fabrication strategy at once elaborate yet efficient.

LASSA conceived a structure with an aerodynamic X-shape massing that creates a series of protected courtyards—one in each wing. To execute the organically curved form in concrete, the architects hatched a fabrication strategy at once elaborate yet efficient.

Theo Sarantoglou Lalis and Dora Sweijd, co-founding principals of the London- and Brussels-based firm, ideated a digitally designed polystyrene-foam formwork that could be partially pre-assembled in sections, in just a handful of days, at a local warehouse. Prior to transporting the formwork to the site, they labeled each piece and included a positive or negative notch on either side.

Theo Sarantoglou Lalis and Dora Sweijd, co-founding principals of the London- and Brussels-based firm, ideated a digitally designed polystyrene-foam formwork that could be partially pre-assembled in sections, in just a handful of days, at a local warehouse. Prior to transporting the formwork to the site, they labeled each piece and included a positive or negative notch on either side.

After excavating the building footprint, four team members installed—in just half a day—a laser-cut-MDF shelf to guide placement of the foam formwork.

After excavating the building footprint, four team members installed—in just half a day—a laser-cut-MDF shelf to guide placement of the foam formwork.

Once delivered on-site, the lightweight formwork sections were placed atop the shelf, assembled like a Byzantine puzzle with plastic screws, and anchored by a support structure made of locally sourced wood—a system flexible enough to achieve the serpentine shape.

Once delivered on-site, the lightweight formwork sections were placed atop the shelf, assembled like a Byzantine puzzle with plastic screws, and anchored by a support structure made of locally sourced wood—a system flexible enough to achieve the serpentine shape.

Concrete was poured in stages over the formwork to create the continuous, rippled facade, which extends some 400 linear feet.

Concrete was poured in stages over the formwork to create the continuous, rippled facade, which extends some 400 linear feet.

After fabrication was complete, the foam formwork was reused as the house’s insulation. An aerial view reveals how the completed structure anchors into the gently sloping olive grove.

After fabrication was complete, the foam formwork was reused as the house’s insulation. An aerial view reveals how the completed structure anchors into the gently sloping olive grove.

Matte-white powder-coated steel steps lead from the kitchen’s gravel courtyard to the rooftop terrace; X- and Y-shape concrete legs support the marble bench seats.

Matte-white powder-coated steel steps lead from the kitchen’s gravel courtyard to the rooftop terrace; X- and Y-shape concrete legs support the marble bench seats.

Futuristic yet grounded, the dwelling’s undulating white facade, as viewed from the southeast, engages with its agrarian surroundings—as does the 344-square-foot pool offering panoramic views.

Futuristic yet grounded, the dwelling’s undulating white facade, as viewed from the southeast, engages with its agrarian surroundings—as does the 344-square-foot pool offering panoramic views.

The south terrace is accessible via a 17-by-9-foot sliding glass door, constructed of three panels that recede into the wall, resulting in a boundless, indoor-outdoor volume.

The south terrace is accessible via a 17-by-9-foot sliding glass door, constructed of three panels that recede into the wall, resulting in a boundless, indoor-outdoor volume.

Accessed through a powder-coated laser-cut steel screen door, the gallery features satin-finish terrazzo floors and marble skirting that uphold the blanched aesthetic. In lieu of conventional lighting fixtures, a perimeter trench containing a flexible LED strip was cast into the roof slab.

Accessed through a powder-coated laser-cut steel screen door, the gallery features satin-finish terrazzo floors and marble skirting that uphold the blanched aesthetic. In lieu of conventional lighting fixtures, a perimeter trench containing a flexible LED strip was cast into the roof slab.

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Dispatch from Cairo: Omar Chakil Transforms Ancient Materials into Modern Marvels https://interiordesign.net/products/dispatch-from-cairo-omar-chakil-transforms-ancient-materials-into-modern-marvels/ Mon, 23 May 2022 13:34:25 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_product&p=196477 When pop singer turned designer Omar Chakil began visiting his ancestral home more often, he alighted on an overlooked material for his work.

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Grey tendre and moon suite anima by Omar Chakil
Photography by Billy Doss.

Dispatch from Cairo: Omar Chakil Transforms Ancient Materials into Modern Marvels

Pop singer turned interior designer Omar Chakil descends from an ancient Egyptian family, but is Beirut born and Paris raised. As an adult, he began visiting his ancestral home more regularly, however, and it was on one such trip that he came across on an overlooked onyx endemic to the nation. Egyptian or Pharaonic alabaster was once used by the pharaohs in their tombs as they believed it’s translucency would lead them into the afterlife. (Indeed, you can still find remnants of the stone on the floors of the temples guarding the Sphinx in Giza, today.) But when Gamal Abdel Nasser came into power in the early seventies and the country was nationalized, luxury was rejected. The alabaster became difficult to access and was gradually replaced by resin from China. Today, the stone is considered the stuff of knickknacks at Khan el-Khalili, Cairo’s famous souk that dates to the 14th century. “It’s seen as a bit cheap and not really special, even though it is,” Chakil notes. “For the past 40 years it has been completely ignored in the Egyptian culture of craft.”

Omar Chakil. Photography by Billy Doss.
Omar Chakil. Photography by Billy Doss.

Not so anymore. Chakil reclaims the material’s innate beauty with his collection Suite Anima (after Animism, the belief that objects possess a distinct spiritual essence). It’s a sculptural and deeply soulful furniture series comprising seating, lighting, tabletop accessories, and more—all carved by hand bar Naughty Cleopatra, a CNC-cut tub that emerged from a single piece of stone, and Thebes, a dining table. “I want to set an example that if you want to work with your local things, you can,” he explains. “The idea was to find an emblematic Egyptian mineral and use it to create contemporary objects that would build bridges between the past and present, craft and design, earthly and ethereal, East and West.” 

“The stone has a soothing, healing quality,” Chakil continues. “It transmits light beautifully through its wax-like texture.” Highlights include two neotenic floor lamps that glow from bulbs within, and the Thebes infinity-loop–shape table with twin holes in the top—resembling spiral coin wishing wells—that represent energy moving continuously and endlessly. There are also honed, matte-finish stools, oil diffusers, globular sconces, organically shaped seating, and more. The 22 pieces debuted at Cairo’s collectible design gallery Le Lab this Spring, commissioned by Le Lab founder Rasheed Kamel. Since the opening of Le Lab’s doors to in October 2021, Kamel has collaborated with myriad Middle Eastern talents from furniture designer Georges Mohasseb to the sculptor Khaled Zaki.

Naughty Cleopatra by Omar Chakil
Photography by Sima Ajlyakin.
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Photography by Sima Ajlyakin.
shelf with accents on it by Omar Chakil
Photography by Georgina McWhirter.
floor lamps by Omar Chakil
Photography by Billy Doss.
seating by Omar Chakil
Photography by Georgina McWhirter.
a close up of an alabaster accent by Omar Chakil
Photography by Georgina McWhirter.
Grey tendre and moon suite anima by Omar Chakil
Photography by Billy Doss.
table by Omar Chakil
Photography by Sima Ajlyakin.
table by Omar Chakil
Photography by Billy Doss.

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A Look Inside the Homes and Studios of Artisans and Product Designers https://interiordesign.net/projects/a-look-inside-the-homes-and-studios-of-artisans-and-product-designers/ Thu, 19 May 2022 15:30:36 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_project&p=195968 Get a look inside the homes and studios of these artisans and product designers that take a hands-on approach to their work/life balance.

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A sofa from Be Pure Home and a chair from Roly Poly furnish the living room of the former chapel.
A sofa from Be Pure Home and a chair from Roly Poly furnish the living room of the former chapel. Photography by Alan Jensen.

A Look Inside the Homes and Studios of Artisans and Product Designers

Artisans and product designers take a hands-on approach to their home/studios.

Alex Gabriels

Materiality is at the heart of Alex Gabriels’s one-of-a-kind pottery pieces, made from earthy red, off-white, or black clay that shows quirks and imperfections from her touch. The same can be said of the Kampenhout, Belgium, home the ceramicist shares with her husband, Philippe de Ceuster, and their three sons. Like her vessels, the house, though a new-build designed by Bart Lens and Thijs Prinsen of Studio Lens°Ass Architects, has a timeless quality. The use of warm and durable materials such as brick and concrete form a modern take on wabi-sabi, while the striking brise-soleil facade was inspired by the Modhera Sun Temple in India.

Gabriels works a clay slab in her studio.
Gabriels works a clay slab in her studio. Photography by Jan Verlinde/Living Inside.
A ceramic teapot.
A ceramic teapot. Image courtesy of Alex Gabriels.
Jugs formed of red rough clay.
Jugs formed of red rough clay. Image courtesy of Alex Gabriels.
An oven dish in red rough clay.
An oven dish in red rough clay. Image courtesy of Alex Gabriels.
A brick lattice forms the brise-soleil.
A brick lattice forms the brise-soleil. Photography by Jan Verlinde/Living Inside.
Gabriels creating a clay vessel on the potter’s wheel. Photography by Jan Verlinde/Living Inside.
Gabriels creating a clay vessel on the potter’s wheel. Photography by Jan Verlinde/Living Inside.
a set of ceramics
Photography by Jan Verlinde/Living Inside.
The living area features a Poul Cadovius wall unit and a Gyrofocus suspended fireplace. Photography by Jan Verlinde/Living Inside.

Milla Novo

When textile artist Milla Novo and her partner, Nigel Nowotarski, first encountered a neo-Gothic monastery in Bennebroek, the Netherlands, that was being redeveloped into residences, the structure’s 2,000-square-foot former chapel had been languishing on the market. “No one wanted to buy this apartment because of the unconventional layout,” she says. But where others saw drawbacks, Novo saw only a blank slate and abundant possibilities, including 20-foot ceilings ideal for executing oversize wall hangings for designer-clients such as Piet Boon and Jan des Bouvrie. She enlisted Amsterdam firm Standard Studio to create comfortable, functional interiors that would respect the monastic atmosphere—all the better to showcase works that honor weaving techniques from her ancestral Chile.

A sofa from Be Pure Home and a chair from Roly Poly furnish the living room of the former chapel.
A sofa from Be Pure Home and a chair from Roly Poly furnish the living room of the former chapel. Photography by Alan Jensen.
Novo’s wall hangings riff on techniques used by the Mapuche, indigenous Chilean inhabitants.
Novo’s wall hangings riff on techniques used by the Mapuche, indigenous Chilean inhabitants. Image courtesy of Milla Novo.
One of her rope sculptures, executed in collaboration with Nowotarski.
One of her rope sculptures, executed in collaboration with Nowotarski. Image courtesy of Milla Novo.
Novo weaving a ropework in her studio.
Novo weaving a ropework in her studio. Photography by Alan Jensen.
Original beams dating from 1896 and light-washed stucco walls bring a transcendent quality to the primary bedroom.
Original beams dating from 1896 and light-washed stucco walls bring a transcendent quality to the primary bedroom. Photography by Alan Jensen.

Maximilian Eicke

During quarantine, German-born Eicke used the time to build a home for his family in Bali. Named Dukuh Haus (dukuh is Indonesian for “hamlet”), the structure incorporates weighty materials like steel, teak, volcanic stone, and marble to result in a solid yet wonderfully open environment. The dwelling is actually a grouping of five buildings placed around a courtyard and pool, a configuration that allowed Eicke—who now alternates between Asia and his Hamptons, New York, residence—to play with different materials and styles. He designed nearly every detail, from the furniture to the flatware, and uses the property as a product incubator, eventually putting favorite and viable pieces into production.

The entry to the residence’s main structure.
The entry to the residence’s main structure. Photography by Tommaso Riva, Styling by Lisa Scappin/Living Inside.
Eicke in the dining room with a custom pendant.
Eicke in the dining room with a custom pendant. Photography by Tommaso Riva, Styling by Lisa Scappin/Living Inside.
The red chair visible outside the primary bedroom is part of an upcoming collection.
The red chair visible outside the primary bedroom is part of an upcoming collection. Photography by Tommaso Riva, Styling by Lisa Scappin/Living Inside.
An outdoor lounge chair.
An outdoor lounge chair. Photography by Tommaso Riva/Living Inside.
His Iceberg Ghost glasses for Moda Operandi.
His Iceberg Ghost glasses for Moda Operandi. Photography by Tommaso Riva/Living Inside.
Eicke designed a solid-teak custom chair for the pool house dining area.
Eicke designed a solid-teak custom chair for the pool house dining area. Photography by Tommaso Riva/Living Inside.
A custom side table.
A custom side table. Photography by Tommaso Riva/Living Inside.
The terraced central courtyard.
The terraced central courtyard. Photography by Tommaso Riva, Styling by Lisa Scappin/Living Inside.

MUT Design

Pushing boundaries is the modus operandi of MUT Design and its founders, Alberto Sánchez and Eduardo Villalón, known for redefining familiar objects. The partners in work and life applied that same sensibility to their home in a 200-year-old building in Valencia, Spain, creating an open, obstacle-free space centered around a light well—a feature that brightened the dark conditions and blurred the lines between indoors and out. Every part is visible from the others—bathroom included (ahem). Furnishings are a playful mix of vintage, pieces from favorite designers, and MUT creations and prototypes for brands such as Expormim and Pulpo. Hearty brick, timber, and cement tile throughout impart a Mediterranean feel, while objects found during their travels lend an international edge.

A Twins armchair for Expormim anchors the living room.
A Twins armchair for Expormim anchors the living room. Photography by Daniel Schäfer/Photofoyer.
Sanchez and Villalón.
Sanchez and Villalón. Photography by Daniel Schäfer/Photofoyer.
MUT’s Petale handwoven chairs, also for Expormim.
MUT’s Petale handwoven chairs, also for Expormim. Image courtesy of MUT Design.
Beetle acoustical panel for Sancal.
Beetle acoustical panel for Sancal. Image courtesy of MUT Design.
The designers’ Aspa rose glass side table for Pulpo.
The designers’ Aspa rose glass side table for Pulpo. Image courtesy of MUT Design.
Bow wall tiles for Harmony.
Bow wall tiles for Harmony. Image courtesy of MUT Design.

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i29 Reinvents a Historic Canal House in Amsterdam https://interiordesign.net/projects/i29-reinvents-a-historic-canal-house-in-amsterdam/ Tue, 17 May 2022 21:22:31 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_project&p=195997 This Amsterdam historical canal house from 1675, designated a state monument, gets brought into the present with a thoughtful renovation from i29.

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The study features a custom desk and, through a window at the base of the bookcase, a view of the living room a half-flight below.
The study features a custom desk and, through a window at the base of the bookcase, a view of the living room a half-flight below.

i29 Reinvents a Historic Canal House in Amsterdam

The archetypal Amsterdam canal house constitutes much of the Dutch city’s residential landscape. Dating to the 17th century, these four- or five-story waterfront row houses were conceived as hybrids: part living space, part warehouse storage for goods transported along the canals. They were built sturdily of wood and masonry construction with heavy beams, i29 co-founder Joeren Dellensen explains, “which is why they still exist.”

Albeit not always in the greatest shape. Take this compact 1675 house near Amstelveld square. Though designated a state monument, it had fallen into ruin before new owners initiated a meticulous two-year restoration and update. “From the start we knew i29 had to be involved in the project, to instill their out-of-the-box, serene, and perfect design,” notes the client, who first hired the firm nine years ago to craft an “invisible kitchen” for the family’s Paris apartment that was entirely concealed behind sliding wall panels imitative of decorative molding.

Here, architectural interventions were strictly limited by mandates protecting heritage houses. “We were not allowed to demolish any walls,” co-founder Jasper Jansen says, noting that the project was a collaborative effort among firm members. “And we couldn’t build any, either, even though very few existed in the space.”

Instead, color performs the role of spatial demarcation. “We used color as a tool to expose the architectural shell to the fullest and to make interventions that define functions,” Dellensen notes, adding that the classic hues chosen “are in sync with the monumental quality of the building.” Complementary blues, greens, and grays are muted and somewhat smoky, contrasting with swaths of crisp white.

Related Post: i29 & Chris Collaris Evoke High Contrast for a Summer Residence in Vinkeveen, the Netherlands

a custom desk in green matches the walls in an Amsterdam home
The study features a custom desk and, through a window at the base of the bookcase, a view of the living room a half-flight below.

The 1,240-square-foot interior of the Amsterdam canal house, adjoining a rear garden, offers long sight lines and elements of delightful surprise. A steep, curving stairway, every bit original, connects the three full floors plus three intermediating half levels. The entry opens into a cozy seating alcove with wide steps down to the ground floor, which had to be lowered for foundation repairs. Occupying the majority of this level is the eat-in kitchen, where custom oak millwork is coupled with chairs by Naoto Fukasawa and lighting pendants by Ludovica and Roberto Palumbo. At the far end of the space, a green glass volume marks entry to a pass-through bathroom leading to a hidden bedroom with garden access.

Fittingly, the living room on floor two retains its characteristic plaster walls and bas-relief ceiling ornamentation, painted creamy white, and restored pine flooring. Behind the rotating bookshelf lies a surprise: a moody blue cocoon in which to read or relax. On the opposite side of the room is another surprise: Interior windows provide a split-level view of the entry seating nook below and the study a half-flight above, where a swath of springlike green frames the built-in desk.

Up on the third floor, “sleeping quarters radiate comfort like a true hotel experience,” Dellensen remarks. Exposed beams trace the peaked ceiling in the main bedroom. Two-way mirrored panels enclose the WC/shower stall, offering sight lines out (into the wet area’s Japanese-inspired soaking tub and beyond) but not in. Up a ladder, an additional mini level is squeezed in below the roof’s bell gable to function as the daughter’s bedroom. So enamored are the homeowners by their pied-à-terre’s charm that they are spending even more time there than they envisioned.

Related Post: i29 Updates Classical Interiors of Landmarked Enlightenment Building in Amsterdam

a white winding staircase in a historic Amsterdam home
The steep original staircase connects all three main levels of the 1675-built row house, plus three interstitial half-levels.
a split level view of an Amsterdam home's study and living room
The living room has a split-level view of the entry seating alcove below and the study above through interior windows.
a blue walled reading nook with a bed
Like a wagon-lit, the hidden reading nook off the living room is just big enough for a bed.
a reading nook in an Amsterdam home with sofa and fireplace
The nook is accessed via the living room’s rotating shelving; the marble fireplace and plasterwork were restored.
concrete floors in a kitchen with a countertop that extends to create a long dining table
The concrete-floored kitchen has a custom oak counter that extends beyond the base cabinets to form a dining table; the wall separating the space from the entry is gray-stained oak.
a pane of green-tinted glass separates a guest suite from a kitchen in this Amsterdam canal house
Green-tinted glass signals the garden-side guest suite at the far end of the kitchen.
a shower stall with views of the outdoors
The main suite’s shower stall is constructed of two-way mirror offering views out but not in.
an a-frame bedroom with white bedding and soft pendants
The main bedroom has custom cabinetry and, like the rest of the Amsterdam canal house, Gregg pendants by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba.
a bathroom with a Japanese-inspired tub and vanity
The main bathroom’s Japanese-inspired tub and vanity were custom made in Germany; the WC/shower stall is hidden behind the mirrored panel on the right.
PROJECT SOURCES
Sigma: paintwork (stairwell)
kvadrat: acoustic wall fabric (living room)
Aleksandra Gaca: pillow fabric (reading room, living room)
norR11: lounge chair, ottoman (living room)
maruni: chairs (kitchen)
concraft: concrete flooring
quooker: sink fittings
blumenberg: custom tub, custom sink (bathroom)
glas xl: two-way mirror
water revolution: taps
THROUGHOUT
Foscarini: pendant lights
schneinder interieurbouw: custom furniture and woodwork
seasons parket: oak flooring
G.K. Visbeen & Co: general contractor
kodde: restoration architect

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Bates Masi + Architects and David Kleinberg Design Associates Create a Contemporary East Hampton Estate https://interiordesign.net/projects/bates-masi-architects-and-david-kleinberg-design-associates-create-a-contemporary-east-hampton-estate/ Thu, 12 May 2022 15:44:49 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_project&p=195935 Bates Masi + Architects and David Kleinberg Design Associates create a contemporary family estate to be passed down to future generations.

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The saltbox form allows for openness and extensive glazing on the ocean-facing side of the house; two bronze-clad “light chimneys” peek over the roofline.
The saltbox form allows for openness and extensive glazing on the ocean-facing side of the house; two bronze-clad “light chimneys” peek over the roofline.

Bates Masi + Architects and David Kleinberg Design Associates Create a Contemporary East Hampton Estate

2022 Best of Year Winner for Beach House

Well before the East End of Long Island, New York, became known for shingle-style mega mansions, its residential vernacular was the saltbox, a simple two-story volume with a gable roof that comes closer to the ground in the back than in the front. Bates Masi + Architects decided it was the right form to give a new 11,450-square-foot weekend house for a couple and their family on a large plot of land in East Hampton. The clients asked for three semi-attached buildings, one for themselves and one each for their grown children (and their future progeny). Firm principal and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Paul Masi gravitated to the saltbox shape, so that the structures would feel protected from the elements in the back but wide open in the front, where the higher rooflines accommodate two stories of windows, all offering spectacular Atlantic Ocean views.

Masi’s other big move was to arrange the three pavilions in an L-shape, which provides a sense of enclosure around the yard and swimming pool. The saltboxes are joined by glass connectors, but only at ground level; each has its own staircase to second-floor bedrooms and baths. The architect relied almost entirely on five materials: cedar, which clads most of the exterior; oak, for much of the interior; limestone, for floors, countertops, terraces, and some external walls; darkened bronze, for various kinds of trim; and, of course, glass. “We had to limit the palette because the house is so big,” Masi explains. “You lose the essence of it if there’s too much going on.” This ethos harks back to the early 1980s, when firm founder and fellow Hall of Famer Harry Bates—now 94 and retired—built modest beach houses out of whatever he could find in local lumber yards, a necessary discipline that became part of the firm’s DNA. When Masi joined Bates in 1998, he began devising ways to keep things simple even as clients demanded more and more luxury.

Connecting perpendicular sections of the three-building house, a glass cube screened with cedar slats also functions as sculpture gallery.
Connecting perpendicular sections of the three-building house, a glass cube screened with cedar slats also functions as sculpture gallery.

This couple, intending that the property becomes a family heirloom passed down from generation to generation, wanted to make sure it would last. That was fine with Masi, who thought in centuries rather than decades while designing it. “We put a lot of redundancy into the building envelope,” he explains, noting that the house is sheathed in two layers of shingle-like boards with gutters and leaders sandwiched between them to keep water away from the weathertight shell. The cedar is fastened to the structure with custom stainless-steel clips that don’t penetrate the wood, avoiding the damage nails or screws could cause the boards when they expand and contract.

The architect didn’t make things easy for himself. Exterior walls and roofs, identically clad, meet without even a whiff of an overhang. Exposing the transition from one surface to another means there’s nowhere to hide even the smallest flaw. “It’s harder than it looks to pull that off,” Masi admits. “Everything has to be perfect.” That includes four “light chimneys,” his term for a series of massive bronze-clad skylights that project through the roof. They ensure light “cascades down through the stairwells,” he continues, an effect that’s enhanced by open-tread staircases hanging on thin vertical steel-and-oak struts that descend from the second-floor ceiling. The stairwells double as ideally illuminated display areas for larger pieces of art (the couple are passionate collectors). And where the house turns a 90-degree angle, the nearly cubic 18-by-18-foot glass-enclosed connector space serves as a sculpture gallery. Delicate cedar-slat screens provide necessary shade, while large, operable windows make it easy getting lage artworks in and out of the space.

Cedar shingles clad most exterior surfaces, including the roof.
Cedar shingles clad most exterior surfaces, including the roof.

The clients brought in Interior Design Hall of Fame member David Kleinberg to furnish the house. The founding partner of David Kleinberg Design Associates, who has worked on multiple residences for the same couple before, softened the vast main living area with a custom beige wool rug. Much of the furniture is upholstered in shades of gray, including custom club chairs and sofas and a pair of French 1950’s oak lounge chairs. The seating is gathered around two Fredrikson Stallard cast-acrylic coffee tables that sit on the rug like massive chunks of ice. A patinated-bronze and polished-copper suspended light sculpture by Niamh Barry adds a note of drama overhead.

But Kleinberg has no desire to hog credit for this house. “It’s clear that architecture was the highest priority,” he notes. “The artworks were second in importance. And then came the furnishings, which were to be laid back, relaxed, and supportive of the architecture and art.” What Kleinberg doesn’t mention is that many of the pieces he has so carefully curated could well become heirlooms in their own right.


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In the dining area, an Ellsworth Kelly painting faces a sculptural table by Joseph Walsh.
In the dining area, an Ellsworth Kelly painting faces a sculptural table by Joseph Walsh.
Flooded with light, this floating staircase, one of three in the house, also provides an ideal spot for the display of large artworks like this mixed-media piece by Franz West.
Flooded with light, this floating staircase, one of three in the house, also provides an ideal spot for the display of large artworks like this mixed-media piece by Franz West.
For geometric variety, the pool house has a flat roof rather than the saltbox form of the estate’s three residential structures.
For geometric variety, the pool house has a flat roof rather than the saltbox form of the estate’s three residential structures.
A colorful wall-mounted artwork by John McCracken overlooks the main living area’s custom and vintage seating, including a pair of 1950’s Guillerme et Chambron oak lounge chairs.
A colorful wall-mounted artwork by John McCracken overlooks the main living area’s custom and vintage seating, including a pair of 1950’s Guillerme et Chambron oak lounge chairs.
The saltbox form allows for openness and extensive glazing on the ocean-facing side of the house; two bronze-clad “light chimneys” peek over the roofline.
The saltbox form allows for openness and extensive glazing on the ocean-facing side of the house; two bronze-clad “light chimneys” peek over the roofline.
A system of ceiling coffers brings natural light from the rear of the house into the main kitchen, which also boasts Gabriel Hendifar blackened-brass pendant fixtures.
A system of ceiling coffers brings natural light from the rear of the house into the main kitchen, which also boasts Gabriel Hendifar blackened-brass pendant fixtures.
A French ’60’s glass-top table joins pieces from the couple’s collection in the sculpture gallery.
A French ’60’s glass-top table joins pieces from the couple’s collection in the sculpture gallery.
Oak planks clad the floor and ceiling of the main bathroom, which has a custom vanity and freestanding tub.
Oak planks clad the floor and ceiling of the main bathroom, which has a custom vanity and freestanding tub.
PROJECT TEAM
katherine dalene weil, nick darin, nick braaksma, hung fai tang: bates masi + architects
lance duckett scott: david kleinberg design associates
orsman design: lighting consultant
steven maresca: structural engineer
men at work construction: general contractor
awg art advisory: art consultant
perry guillot: landscape consultant
PRODUCT SOURCES
FROM FRONT
maison gerard: oak lounge chairs, light sculpture (living area)
david gill gallery: coffee tables
Patterson Flynn: custom rug
joseph walsh studio: custom table (dining area)
victoria + albert: tub (bathroom)
apparatus: pendant fixtures (kitchen)
wolf: range (kitchen)
vent-a-hood: ventilation hood
sub-zero: refrigerator
bernd goeckler: glass table (sculpture gallery)
THROUGHOUT
bybee stone company: limestone flooring and cladding
Keller Minimal Windows: windows and doors

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These Residential Interiors Offer a Palette to Suit Every Mood https://interiordesign.net/projects/these-residential-interiors-offer-a-palette-to-suit-every-mood/ Thu, 12 May 2022 15:35:45 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_project&p=195952 This trio of new residential interiors runs the emotional gamut from bright and sunny to serene and sophisticated.

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a dining room with orange chairs with a pink geometric chandelier overhead
Photography by Gaelle le Boulicaut; Produced by Jeremy Callaghan.

These Residential Interiors Offer a Palette to Suit Every Mood

A trio of new residential interiors runs the emotional gamut from bright and sunny to serene and sophisticated.

Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, Paris

Natural light floods the award-winning architect’s first residential interior, a 1,300-square-foot duplex in a 17th-century Marais building, where ceilings were raised, a ribbon skylight installed, and the play of volumes and voids carefully calibrated to take full advantage of the expansive windows—not least in the living area, which is dominated by a stack of colorful blocks forming a sunny sculptural staircase and fireplace.

a modern living room with jewel tone accents
Photography by Gaelle le Boulicaut; Produced by Jeremy Callaghan.
a pink staircase flanked by yellow walls
Photography by Gaelle le Boulicaut; Produced by Jeremy Callaghan.
a yellow hallway
Photography by Gaelle le Boulicaut; Produced by Jeremy Callaghan.
a dining room with orange chairs with a pink geometric chandelier overhead
Photography by Gaelle le Boulicaut; Produced by Jeremy Callaghan.
a crisp white bed flanked by green accents across from a mirror
Photography by Gaelle le Boulicaut; Produced by Jeremy Callaghan.

Lorla Studio, New York

Quiet sophistication reigns in this renovated 1,900-square-foot garden apartment, housed in a former 19th-century church, where the confidently cosmopolitan taste of its young professional woman owner is reflected in a neutral background palette—white walls, light wood floors—that sets off a characterful array of vintage and custom furniture, warm-brass and matte-black light fixtures with sculptural silhouettes, and a gallery’s worth of commissioned and collected artworks.

a modern living room with pink accents and a grey sofa
Photography by Seth Caplan.
an office chair in front of a clear desk
Photography by Seth Caplan.
modern art atop a credenza with a gold lamp
Photography by Seth Caplan.
a large bathtub in an off white bathroom
Photography by Seth Caplan.

No Architects, Prague

Two striking paintings—a numerical abstraction by Vladimír Houdek and a melancholy dreamscape by Josef Bolf—set the program in this renovated 1,400-square-foot maisonette, the former’s numbers and raw edges reflected in the perforated pattern on the radiator covers and the ragged bottoms of the kitchen cabinet doors, the latter’s gently sorrowful mood echoed in a teardrop-shape pendant fixture and the meditative greige of a feature wall.

a bookshelf across from a blue couch in a living room
Photography by Studio Flusser.
a blue set of drawers with circular accents
Photography by Studio Flusser.
numbers on a radiant cover in pink
Photography by Studio Flusser.
a blue kitchen island with a teardrop-esque chandelier overhead
Photography by Studio Flusser.

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Dufner Heighes Transforms a Historic House in Pelham, New York into a Modern Family Home https://interiordesign.net/projects/dufner-heighes-transforms-a-historic-house-in-pelham-new-york-into-a-modern-family-home/ Mon, 09 May 2022 16:07:40 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_project&p=196011 For a growing family looking to put down roots, Dufner Heighes modernized this historic home in Pelham, New York.

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Dufner Heighes designed the mudroom’s Bubble table; the terrazzo flooring by Artistic Tile incorporates marble chips.
Dufner Heighes designed the mudroom’s Bubble table; the terrazzo flooring by Artistic Tile incorporates marble chips.

Dufner Heighes Transforms a Historic House in Pelham, New York into a Modern Family Home

Flip back a page, please. Now, kick up your feet, relax—here, have a cocktail—and observe this intriguing wood-paneled room: the resolutely leafy view, that groovy triangular window, the serene quiet, the vintage-heavy furniture scheme. Bet you think this is the living room of some cozy ’70’s-mod cabin on a remote rural plot, right? Well, surprise! In fact, this is the second-floor sitting room of a painstakingly preserved century-old Edwardian-style manse within shouting distance (although please don’t; the baby’s sleeping) of the Bronx.

Dufner Heighes was the firm tasked with future-proofing the historic Pelham, New York, house for a growing family. The 7,100-square-foot dwelling has an intriguing back story. Previous owners include the island nation of Barbados, which used it as an embassy, and a Coca-Cola executive who frequently hosted President Eisenhower there back in the 1950s. Another head of state, George Washington, reportedly stayed on the property, too, in a structure that once stood on this abode’s exact footprint. That provenance piqued the interest of Erica Holborn, CEO of Sandow Design Group (Interior Design’s parent company) and a self-professed real-estate enthusiast. “I’m a house-with-a-story person,” she admits.

In the second-floor primary suite’s sitting room, windows are angled to follow the roofline; a print by Linda Colletta, Sky III, joins a Dufner Heighes–designed Stop coffee table, a D’Urso sofa, and vintage wing chairs reupholstered in shearling.
In the second-floor primary suite’s sitting room, windows are angled to follow the roofline; a print by Linda Colletta, Sky III, joins a Dufner Heighes–designed Stop coffee table, a D’Urso sofa, and vintage wing chairs reupholstered in shearling.

When Holborn and her husband, Andrew, first saw the property listing, they deemed the eight-bedroom too big for their needs. Fast forward a year later. Their Dufner Heighes–designed Sutton Place apartment was getting a bit too snug for their expanding family (especially with WFH in the mix), and their upstate getaway, a 1970’s A-frame designed by Frank Lloyd Wright protégés, was too far from the city for full-time residency. Plus, the Holborns got an offer on the latter that they couldn’t refuse. So when the price dropped on the Pelham place around the same time, they finally took a look—and were sold.

Among the structure’s many attributes was that it had been pristinely restored, from the oak millwork to the original hardware. “It was a perfect situation, because the previous owners had updated a few things, like the kitchen, but restored everything else—stripping layers of paint off moldings and all that stuff no one wants to deal with,” notes Daniel Heighes Wismer, firm copartner with Greg Dufner. In short, it was practically turnkey. Early site visits suggested the project would be primarily decorative and cosmetic: reupholstering some existing furnishings, buying new items to fill in a few gaps, replacing antique light fixtures with more modern designs, updating cabinetry, hanging artwork. Midway through planning the new kitchen, however, it became apparent the current footprint was underscaled for the size of the house and had an awkward, dinky island unsuited to cooking and dining. “During one of our meetings with the team from Bilotta, with whom we were designing the kitchen,” Wismer recalls, “someone questioned whether we could tear down a wall to annex the adjoining butler’s pantry—and that changed everything,” necessitating plumbing and electrical rerouting plus new structural steel. “My dream has always been to have a butler’s pantry,” Holborn sighs. “And then I finally buy a house with one—and promptly take it out!”

The monthslong renovation was well worth it. The new scheme is much brighter and airier, with a long Arabescato Corchia marble island that seats four, plus a window-wrapped breakfast nook. Dufner Heighes deployed two patterns of Artistic Tile terrazzo flooring, one incorporating marble chips, to create area rug–like accents that delineate spatial zones. Shaker-style cabinetry is simpatico with the period architecture yet modern enough to suit the décor. The same flooring and cabinetry also extend into an adjacent space, a former family room that now serves as a storage-packed mudroom.

Dufner Heighes designed the mudroom’s Bubble table; the terrazzo flooring by Artistic Tile incorporates marble chips.
Dufner Heighes designed the mudroom’s Bubble table; the terrazzo flooring by Artistic Tile incorporates marble chips.

The reinvention of a living space as service-oriented hub made sense, given the floorplan already offered a generous number of hangout areas, including the ground-floor salon and contiguous sunroom, a second-floor playroom for two-year-old Marlowe and baby Bodhi, a sitting room off the primary suite, and the family and game rooms that anchor the daylit basement level. “The challenge,” Dufner says, “was how to make each living space feel like it had a unique function and purpose.” Seating in particular was selected with specific activities and postures in mind. Thus the salon’s more upright Bob sectional, its firm, snakelike form perfect for perching with a glass of wine; the sunroom’s more lounge-y Bouroullec Brothers Ploum sofa, a holdover from the upstate house (albeit newly reupholstered); and the super deep, nap-conducive sofa in the family room, where TV viewing occurs.

Though the house has a traditional layout, with discrete rooms, they open graciously onto each other, and curating sight lines was particularly important. Many features were considered holistically so they would work together from room to room. On the first floor, for instance, “there are points where you can see the ceiling fixtures in the sunroom, living room, entry hall, and the dining room all at once,” Wismer explains. “So the lighting we specified all needed to work within their respective rooms and also as a cohesive group.” Furniture and other accents were chosen and placed similarly, he adds. “There was a balancing of where we could go a little wild and where something had to be toned down so it wouldn’t get too heavy or layered.”

Speaking of going a little wild, check out the dining room wallpaper. The pattern, a trippy graphic confection in riotous hues, tents the room, extending up from crisp wainscoting lacquered a mercurial green-gray color. The op art patterning is the perfect jazz riff on the abode’s 1914 bones. “The contrast between historic and modern is just so great,” says Wismer. A sentiment that summarizes the project top to bottom.

A pair of Finn Juhl chairs and a Bob sectional designed by Thomas Bernstrand and Stefan Borselius furnish the living room’s seating vignette; the area rug, like most of the floor coverings throughout, is from Aronson’s.
A pair of Finn Juhl chairs and a Bob sectional designed by Thomas Bernstrand and Stefan Borselius furnish the living room’s seating vignette; the area rug, like most of the floor coverings throughout, is from Aronson’s.
Near the living room fireplace, with original oak millwork, a Jaime Hayon side table cozies up to a leather daybed.
Near the living room fireplace, with original oak millwork, a Jaime Hayon side table cozies up to a leather daybed.
In the foyer, a portrait by Elizabeth Peyton is complemented by handmade paper flowers by Livia Cetti and a custom table by Casey Johnson.
In the foyer, a portrait by Elizabeth Peyton is complemented by handmade paper flowers by Livia Cetti and a custom table by Casey Johnson.
In the dining room, wallpapered in Borderline Chinoiserie by Voutsa, a Kiki Smith print, Fawn, hangs over a Jaime Hayon credenza; a flock of mouthblown glass birds adds height and interest to the oak table by Philipp Mainzer.
In the dining room, wallpapered in Borderline Chinoiserie by Voutsa, a Kiki Smith print, Fawn, hangs over a Jaime Hayon credenza; a flock of mouthblown glass birds adds height and interest to the oak table by Philipp Mainzer.
In the sunroom, a Bouroullec Brothers Ploum sofa joins an Iacoli coffee table featuring a custom top in onyx from Artistic Tile.
In the sunroom, a Bouroullec Brothers Ploum sofa joins an Iacoli coffee table featuring a custom top in onyx from Artistic Tile.
Works in India ink from Hugo Guinness’s “Wobbly Records” series garnish the game room, adjacent to the lower-level family room.
Works in India ink from Hugo Guinness’s “Wobbly Records” series garnish the game room, adjacent to the lower-level family room.
In the kitchen, with Shaker-style cabinetry from Bilotta, Dufner Heighes added a built-in banquette to maximize space; the chairs and stools are by Hans Wegner.
In the kitchen, with Shaker-style cabinetry from Bilotta, Dufner Heighes added a built-in banquette to maximize space; the chairs and stools are by Hans Wegner.
Daughter Marlowe’s bedroom features an Edward Wormley Knowland chaise, Finn Juhl Eye coffee table, and Lee Jofa’s Prism Pastel wallpaper.
Daughter Marlowe’s bedroom features an Edward Wormley Knowland chaise, Finn Juhl Eye coffee table, and Lee Jofa’s Prism Pastel wallpaper.
A custom bar in ribbed oak backdrops the lower-level family room, with a Hans Wegner Mama Bear chair and Simple side tables by Dufner Heighes; marble from Artistic Tile tops the Space Copenhagen Fly table.
A custom bar in ribbed oak backdrops the lower-level family room, with a Hans Wegner Mama Bear chair and Simple side tables by Dufner Heighes; marble from Artistic Tile tops the Space Copenhagen Fly table.
Flavor Paper’s Happy Butterfly Day wallpaper and a Gio Ponti mirror bring zing to a powder room.
Flavor Paper’s Happy Butterfly Day wallpaper and a Gio Ponti mirror bring zing to a powder room.
The primary bedroom is furnished with a Lawson-Fenning Chiselhurst bed, custom Simple bedside tables by Dufner Heighes, a Michael Robbins Ranger bench, and a painting by Bruce Tolman.
The primary bedroom is furnished with a Lawson-Fenning Chiselhurst bed, custom Simple bedside tables by Dufner Heighes, a Michael Robbins Ranger bench, and a painting by Bruce Tolman.
Katie Hammond’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard accents the stair hall, illuminated by Louis Poulsen pendants.
Katie Hammond’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard accents the stair hall, illuminated by Louis Poulsen pendants.
product sources
sitting room
knoll: sofa
dunbar: side table
design for macha: ceiling fixture
through noguchi shop: floor lamp
garrett leather: armchair shearling
kvadrat: side chair fabric
LIVING ROOM
blå station through scandinavian spaces: sofa
house of finn juhl: chairs
Gubi: coffee table
aronson’s: rug
bd barcelona through ddc: green side table.
Fredericia: daybed
lawson-fenning: vessels
MUD ROOM
bilotta: cabinetry
Artistic Tile: flooring
seungjin yang through the future perfect: pink stool
Blu Dot: yellow ottoman
through noguchi shop: pendant
STAIR
Louis Poulsen: pendants
DINING ROOM
voutsa: wallpaper
e15 through stillfried wien: table
Carl Hansen & Son: chairs
iittala through fiskars group: glass birds
bd barcelona through ddc: credenza
aronson’s: rug
GAME ROOM
mitchell gold + bob williams: sofa
aronson’s: rug
Carl Hansen & Son: Lounge
Blu Dot: side table
through john derian: artwork
sun room
ligne roset: sofa
iacoli: coffee table
CB2: side table
KITCHEN
Artistic Tile: flooring, counters
bilotta: cabinetry
Carl Hansen & Son: chairs, stools
e15 through stillfried wien: table
Louis Poulsen: pendants
FOYER
casey johnson studio: custom table
Blu Dot: ottoman
through john derian: flowers
aj madison: appliances
NURSERY
lee jofa: wallpaper
through design within reach: rocking chair
dunbar: sofa
house of finn juhl: coffee table
floyd: shelving
stokke: crib
FAMILY ROOM
rejuvenation: ceiling fixture
nessen lighting: gold lamp
&tradition: coffee table, ottoman
Carl Hansen & Son: green lounge chair
mitchell gold + bob williams: sofa
aronson’s: rug
kvadrat: mama bear chair fabric
zak & fox: club chair fabric
BEDROOM
design for macha: ceiling fixture
michael robbins: bench
lawson-fenning: bed
once milano: quilt
aronson’s: rug
POWDER ROOM
flavor paper: wallpaper
Gubi: mirror
THROUGHOUT
visual comfort through circa lighting: table lamps (sitting room, dining room, family room, bedroom); ceiling pendant (living room, dining room, foyer); floor lamps (living room, nursery); reading lamp (living room)
through furniture from scandinavia: items from fredericia, house of finn juhl, gubi, carl hansen & sØn, louis poulsen, and &tradition

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Duet Gives an Old-School Sydney Residence a Youthful Update https://interiordesign.net/projects/duet-gives-an-old-school-sydney-residence-a-youthful-update/ Thu, 05 May 2022 18:19:07 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_project&p=195847 An old-school jaded Tudor-style residence in Sydney gets a colorful, youthful update from design duo Duet.

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Accompanying an Esedra pouf by Monica Förster and a marble coffee table, the family room’s leather-clad custom sectional modules can be reconfigured over time as the clients’ needs change.
Accompanying an Esedra pouf by Monica Förster and a marble coffee table, the family room’s leather-clad custom sectional modules can be reconfigured over time as the clients’ needs change.

Duet Gives an Old-School Sydney Residence a Youthful Update

As far as first projects go, this five-bedroom house set on a half-acre plot complete with pool and tennis court is an undoubtedly impressive one, both for its scale and for the design freedom extended to interior designers Shannon Shlom and Dominique Brammah. Collaborating for the first time as co-founders of the Sydney studio Duet, the pair worked symbiotically to transform the jaded Tudor-style dwelling in suburban Strathfield, Australia, into a fresh-faced home suited to modern living. The clients, George and Michleen, had purchased the sizeable two-story residence with the desire to create a family-friendly environment for their growing brood. George, a property developer and frequent traveler, also wanted the interior to reflect the luxury hotel aesthetic he appreciated on the road, and to leverage his company’s team of contractors and consultants. Other than that, he gave Duet carte blanche. “This was a true trust exercise where we had complete autonomy to run with our ideas based on the initial brief,” Shlom recalls.

Although the house, built in 1916, had been through a previous renovation and addition, “it was formulaic and lacked heart and soul,” Shlom explains. “The original spaces were bland while the more recently added contemporary spaces were a pastiche of confused styles.” The duo’s initial site visit and floor plan review sparked an idea they realized would improve the flow of foot traffic while also instating spatial logic: relocating the staircase from the entry hall to a more central spot closer to the layout’s actual midpoint. The new stair, a twisty spiral with Carrara marble treads, neatly divides the plan into two zones: a formal one comprising the living room, the guest powder room, and the study, and a more casual, free-flowing wing housing the family room, kitchen/dining area, butler’s pantry, and an additional half-bath. “Those adjustments honored the proportions of the original rooms while allowing for the creation of a generous, open, contemporary space,” Brammah notes. Further bridging old and new are architectural details including custom wall paneling, large-scale dentil molding, parquet de Versailles oak flooring, and vintage lighting—“elements that acknowledge the history of the house yet allowed for a new language that didn’t feel like a replication,” she continues. “It’s an approach that encapsulates the essence of the project: a deeply layered scheme that can continue to evolve with the family over its lifetime.”

A vintage Bilia lamp by Gio Ponti sits in front of the living room’s original stained-glass windows; the sofa and cushions are custom.
A vintage Bilia lamp by Gio Ponti sits in front of the living room’s original stained-glass windows; the sofa and cushions are custom.

Other major interventions to the property include a pergola with an outdoor kitchen and bath, a freestanding tennis/guest house courtside, a rear extension encompassing an enlarged showcase garage (home to George’s vintage car collection) and a game room in which the couple can host late-night card games without disrupting family life in the main house. Indeed, the entire property is both party minded yet practical, down to the kitchen.

“The family loves entertaining—but not the idea of guests getting elbow-deep in grease during cleanup after a long Sunday lunch,” Shlom says. So, Duet conceived a double kitchen: a showpiece cookery paired with a hardworking tucked-away butler’s pantry that houses a second set of appliances. The latter functions as the day-to-day meal-prep area, which freed Duet to push the design parameters of the public-facing side, oriented around a commandingly contemporary two-tone stone island that stands sculpture-like.

For furnishings, Shlom and Brammah sourced far and wide. “Lighting was an important part of bringing a worldly, well-traveled feel to the design, with many eras represented so as not to create a prescriptive style,” Shlom says. The showstopper Lindsey Adelman Drop pendant above the dining room table, in a patinated copper finish, “made our hearts sing,” Brammah says, pointing out how it elegantly twists and turns in the breeze when sliders to the adjacent outdoor living spaces are open. Duet also commissioned myriad custom pieces. In the primary bedroom, for instance, the headboard, bedside tables, pendants, checkerboard broadloom carpet, bed linens, and silk window treatments are all bespoke.

The primary bedroom’s headboard, bedside table, linens, and lighting pendant are custom; the walls are papered in grass-cloth.
The primary bedroom’s headboard, bedside table, linens, and lighting pendant are custom; the walls are papered in grass-cloth.

As for the young members of the household, who range from six months to 11 years old, their sanctums are at once age-appropriate yet designed with longevity in mind, featuring colors and finishes sure to stand the test of time. Take the playroom: The ground-floor space, formerly an uptight formal room, is now an ode to a big-top tent, treated to a vibrant mix of terracotta ceiling stripes and circular elements ranging from the sofa cushions to the area rug.

Equally playful, albeit in another vein entirely, is George’s study. Mirror-backed built-in shelving showcases his prized whiskey collection alongside vintage treasures. An added grace note, the designers specified Piero Fornasetti’s classic Teatro wallpaper, featuring an audience of theater-goers, “so George would always be in good company working late into the night,” Brammah says with a laugh. Who needs alone time?

Accompanying an Esedra pouf by Monica Förster and a marble coffee table, the family room’s leather-clad custom sectional modules can be reconfigured over time as the clients’ needs change.
Accompanying an Esedra pouf by Monica Förster and a marble coffee table, the family room’s leather-clad custom sectional modules can be reconfigured over time as the clients’ needs change.
The rear addition housing the game room is visible beyond the Tudor-style main house and accessed via the enlarged six-car garage.
The rear addition housing the game room is visible beyond the Tudor-style main house and accessed via the enlarged six-car garage.
Piero Fornasetti’s Teatro wallpaper clads the study, where a brass egg sculpture and Joel Escalona’s Miss Jolie ceramic vase alight on an Antella desk by Kazuhide Takahama.
Piero Fornasetti’s Teatro wallpaper clads the study, where a brass egg sculpture and Joel Escalona’s Miss Jolie ceramic vase alight on an Antella desk by Kazuhide Takahama.
A papier-mâché vase by McMullen & Co. tops the kitchen island, which pairs Verde Chambray and Calacatta marble; the dining area’s Lindsey Adelman chandelier sports a copper patina finish.
A papier-mâché vase by McMullen & Co. tops the kitchen island, which pairs Verde Chambray and Calacatta marble; the dining area’s Lindsey Adelman chandelier sports a copper patina finish.
The spiral staircase and wall moldings are newly added.
The spiral staircase and wall moldings are newly added.
In the playroom, the sofa (with a machine-washable slipcover) and rug are custom; a Greta Grossman B-4 table lamp perches on a custom desk.
In the playroom, the sofa (with a machine-washable slipcover) and rug are custom; a Greta Grossman B-4 table lamp perches on a custom desk.
Sibella Court’s Franklin wallpaper animates a small sitting area, dubbed the cubby, off son Peter’s bedroom, illuminated by a Verner Panton Flowerpot lamp.
Sibella Court’s Franklin wallpaper animates a small sitting area, dubbed the cubby, off son Peter’s bedroom, illuminated by a Verner Panton Flowerpot lamp.
The butler’s pantry backsplash is handmade brick.
The butler’s pantry backsplash is handmade brick.
Custom marble parquetry flooring bedecks the foyer, where a Graziela Guardino linen on canvas drapes over a 1970 console by Giacomo Sinopoli; the pendant is an Italian design dating from the midcentury era.
Custom marble parquetry flooring bedecks the foyer, where a Graziela Guardino linen on canvas drapes over a 1970 console by Giacomo Sinopoli; the pendant is an Italian design dating from the midcentury era.
A view across the tennis court—built by former homeowner Daphne Akhurst, a grand slam winner—to the remodeled rear of the house; to the right is the newly constructed tennis house.
A view across the tennis court—built by former homeowner Daphne Akhurst, a grand slam winner—to the remodeled rear of the house; to the right is the newly constructed tennis house.
Moroccan Zellige tiles clad the walls of Peter’s terrazzo-floored bathroom.
Moroccan Zellige tiles clad the walls of Peter’s terrazzo-floored bathroom.
A Brescia Capria backsplash brings an artful note to the tennis house kitchen, furnished with Thonet cane-seat stools.
A Brescia Capria backsplash brings an artful note to the tennis house kitchen, furnished with Thonet cane-seat stools.
A deft layering of shapes, colors, and patterns creates sophistication in Annabelle’s bedroom, with a custom headboard and carpet.
A deft layering of shapes, colors, and patterns creates sophistication in Annabelle’s bedroom, with a custom headboard and carpet.
Boldly veined Brescia Capria marble animates daughter Annabelle’s bath, with custom mirror.
Boldly veined Brescia Capria marble animates daughter Annabelle’s bath, with custom mirror.
Acrylic lamps and a tiered chandelier by Julie Neill illuminate the guest bedroom.
Acrylic lamps and a tiered chandelier by Julie Neill illuminate the guest bedroom.
PROJECT TEAM
Duet: Lead Consultants
AJH+: architecture
Studio Rewild: landscape consultant
Megan Morton: editorial styling
Sophia Kaplan: editorial florals
PRODUCT SOURCES
FROM FRONT
Globewest: coffee tables (family room, living room), table, chairs (kitchen), sofa, side table (cubby), bedside tables (guest bedroom, daughter’s bedroom)
Poltrona Frau through Cult Design: pouf (family room)
Pulpo through Domo: floor lamp
Cole & Sons through Iconradford Wallpaper: wallpaper (study)
Cassina through Cult Design: desk
Fourth Street Home: egg sculpture
Through Mercer & Lewis: amphora pots
joel escalona through adorno design: ceramic vase
through james said: vintage wall light (study), vintage chandelier (living room)
gubi through cult design: chair (study), lamp (playroom)
the visuals: plinth (stair), sculptures (stair, living room)
deemah stone: stone flooring (stair, foyer)
lighting collective: pendant light (playroom)
simple studio: window treatments
murobond: accent paint (playroom, guest bedroom)
house of orange: bench (playroom), console (living room), lamps (guest bedroom)
through smith street bazaar: vintage pendant light (living room)
through tigmi trading: lounge chair, footstool
jetmaster: fireplace
Lindsey adelman studio: pendant light (kitchen)
grazia & co.: stools
mcmullen & co.: vase
porter’s: cabinetry paint (kitchen, butler’s pantry)
granite & marble works: countertop marble (kitchen, daughter’s bathroom), backsplash (tennis house)
through 1st dibs: pendant (foyer)
liwans through nicholas & alistair: vintage console
zip water: specialty tap (butler’s pantry)
onsite supply & design: backsplash
WK: countertop stone
tim roodenrys: rug
&tradition through cult design: lamp (cubby)
the society inc.: wallpaper
ascraft: wallpaper (primary bedroom)
fibonacci stone through onsite supply and design: stone tile (tennis house)
honoré through tigmi trading: pendant light
thonet: stools
julie neill through montauk lighting co.: pendant light (guest bedroom)
s a s veer: artwork
the stitching project: bedcover
THROUGHOUT
dulux: paint
we love parquet: flooring
perrin & rowe through english tapware company: sink fittings
Tappeti: custom rugs
heritage tile co.: terrazzo (kids’ baths)
surface gallery: wall tiles (kids’ baths)
snelling: wall lights (kids’ baths)

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Agence DL-M Sets a Left Bank Paris Apartment on a Colorful New Course https://interiordesign.net/projects/agence-dl-m-sets-a-left-bank-paris-apartment-on-a-colorful-new-course/ Thu, 05 May 2022 18:14:34 +0000 https://interiordesign.net/?post_type=id_project&p=195774 Agence DL-M sets a Left Bank Paris apartment on a colorful new course influenced by Art Deco and Langlois-Meurinne’s signature style.

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Circus Peanut, an acrylic on canvas by art collective Henry Codax, hangs above the living room’s wool-satin-upholstered custom sofa.
Circus Peanut, an acrylic on canvas by art collective Henry Codax, hangs above the living room’s wool-satin-upholstered custom sofa.

Agence DL-M Sets a Left Bank Paris Apartment on a Colorful New Course

In recent years, interior designer Damien Langlois-Meurinne has worked on a series of Paris apartments that enjoy mind-blowing views. The dining room of one flat close to Place du Trocadéro is in direct axis with the Eiffel Tower. Another sits atop a hill in the city’s 16th arrondissement and offers sweeping vistas of almost all the French capital’s monuments, extending to Notre-Dame in the distance. Yet none of them has such a direct link to the Seine as this 3,500-square-foot four-bedroom located right on the river’s Left Bank. Look through the trees to the right and you see the Louvre; to the left, the Place de la Concorde. On July 26, 2024, its fourth-floor windows will no doubt be a privileged perch: That is the day earmarked for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, when some 10,500 athletes will sail past on boats from the Pont d’Austerlitz to the Pont d’Iéna.

Damien Langlois-Meurinne designed both sofas in the living room; the porcelain and metal sculpture between the windows is Pseudosphère Verticale, by Nadège Mouyssinat.
Damien Langlois-Meurinne designed both sofas in the living room; the porcelain and metal sculpture between the windows is Pseudosphère Verticale, by Nadège Mouyssinat.

The project stands out for another reason, too. Since setting up his own practice, Agence DL-M, back in 2003, Langlois-Meurinne has displayed a gift for reworking floor plans and spatial volumes. Often, he’ll gut an apartment and start things over completely from scratch. For a recent commission, he even had to remove a 215-square-foot swimming pool that had been installed, rather incongruously, on the fifth floor of a typical Haussmannian building.

There are, however, exceptions to every rule, and this project, for an art-collecting couple from the Middle East, was one of them. “For once, there was a natural balance to the existing layout,” Langlois-Meurinne recalls. “I didn’t really change much apart from connecting the primary bedroom to the adjoining bathroom.” The new birch-clad portal between the two is particularly deep. “It gives the space a sense of protection and intimacy,” Langlois-Meurinne notes. He also modified the shape of the walls in the kitchen, replacing jagged angles with enveloping curves.

Corian tops the lacquered wood cabinetry in the kitchen, paved in Zimbabwe granite; a Thomas Ruff photograph accents walls clad in sanded oak.
Corian tops the lacquered wood cabinetry in the kitchen, paved in Zimbabwe granite; a Thomas Ruff photograph accents walls clad in sanded oak.

What was lacking, though, was much in the way of architectural personality; the space was almost completely devoid of historical elements. So, Langlois-Meurinne designed new ones largely inspired by the Art Deco style of the 1920s and ’30s. He installed wainscoting and cornices in the large double sitting room as well as a host of elements in staff, a type of plaster he particularly loves working with. “It’s extremely supple and allows you to create rounded forms more easily than you can with wood or marble,” Langlois-Meurinne explains. The material was used to create the sculptural fireplace that anchors one end of the living space, the ribbed walls in the entry hall, and the domed ceiling in the dining room, among other details.

The rest of the decor is typical of Langlois-Meurinne’s style, from the strong axes to the integration of niches and alcoves to the bronze door frames that help structure the space. In many of his projects, the designer favors generously proportioned hallways. “For me, they’re essential,” he says. “They’re the backbone of a flat and need to be lively and have their very own personality.” Bestowing visual impact in the main hall, which serves as a gallery, is a mesmerizing moonlike work in bright red by Dutch artist Corine van Voorbergen. Langlois-Meurinne also created a rhythmic pattern on the floor below by insetting the Tundra Gray marble slabs with brass bands arranged in a syncopated fashion. “Their reflections help bring light to the heart of the apartment,” he says.

Light was a concern in the primary bathroom due to an absence of windows. The striking Panda White marble floor, which Langlois-Meurinne compares to a contemporary artwork, helps to distract attention from the fact. “The veining is very dynamic,” he says, “almost like an India ink drawing.” The designer also installed a plaster ceiling dome above the tub, into which he recessed indirect lighting. “When it’s switched on, it becomes quite immaterial and conjures the sensation of a light well or skylight,” he declares.

For aficionados of Langlois-Meurinne’s work, the color palette throughout the apartment may come as something of a surprise. He has long accustomed us to cooler tones, marked by a predilection for shades of blue. “I have a very strong attachment to the sea and the Mediterranean,” he says, explaining that he spent many a childhood vacation in the Cyclades of Greece. Here, however, he decided to play with warmer tones. The walls of the dining room were painted a pale salmon hue, and a monochromatic orange acrylic on canvas—Circus Peanut, by the art collective Henry Codax—dominates one end of the living room. “I don’t know where the inspiration came from,” Langlois-Meurinne admits. “I guess it’s a question of desire, of simply wanting to try out something a little different.”

Circus Peanut, an acrylic on canvas by art collective Henry Codax, hangs above the living room’s wool-satin-upholstered custom sofa.
Circus Peanut, an acrylic on canvas by art collective Henry Codax, hangs above the living room’s wool-satin-upholstered custom sofa.
Noémie Goudal’s In Search of the First Line III, 2014 hangs in the entry, with an Allied Maker lighting pendant.
Noémie Goudal’s In Search of the First Line III, 2014 hangs in the entry, with an Allied Maker lighting pendant.
Painted-wood artworks by Marc Cavell bookend a Gregor Hildebrandt canvas made from VHS tape and acrylic; the Italian armchair dates to the 1950s.
Painted-wood artworks by Marc Cavell bookend a Gregor Hildebrandt canvas made from VHS tape and acrylic; the Italian armchair dates to the 1950s.
The dining room’s custom wool-cotton rug anchors a white-finish pinewood table surrounds by vintage Ico Parisi chairs; Estremoz marble tops the custom sheet-bronze consoles.
The dining room’s custom wool-cotton rug anchors a white-finish pinewood table surrounds by vintage Ico Parisi chairs; Estremoz marble tops the custom sheet-bronze consoles.
The corridor leading to the primary bedroom hosts a Tom Kirk chandelier and a William Coggin stoneware sculpture, which graces a walnut plinth.
The corridor leading to the primary bedroom hosts a Tom Kirk chandelier and a William Coggin stoneware sculpture, which graces a walnut plinth.
In the living room, Musée du Louvre (Vénus) by Martin d’Orgeval finds its complement in a lamp crafted of blown, molded glass; an enameled porcelain vase by Barbara Lormelle garnishes the cocktail table.
In the living room, Musée du Louvre (Vénus) by Martin d’Orgeval finds its complement in a lamp crafted of blown, molded glass; an enameled porcelain vase by Barbara Lormelle garnishes the cocktail table.
In the powder room, more lighting fixtures by Haslam flank an antique green marble sink.
In the powder room, more lighting fixtures by Haslam flank an antique green marble sink.
Corine van Voorbergen’s The Hard Around the Edge punctuates the gallery, which also features ribbed staff walls, a Nicholas Haslam plaster chandelier, and custom zebrano consoles.
Corine van Voorbergen’s The Hard Around the Edge punctuates the gallery, which also features ribbed staff walls, a Nicholas Haslam plaster chandelier, and custom zebrano consoles.
The apartment, located directly on the Left Bank of the Seine, has a view of the Louvre and other Paris landmarks.
The apartment, located directly on the Left Bank of the Seine, has a view of the Louvre and other Paris landmarks.
In the primary bedroom, a headboard covered in a arrowroot grass-cloth joins Christophe Delcourt nightstands; between the newly added birch doorways is a gelatin silver print by Iranian artist Payram.
In the primary bedroom, a headboard covered in a arrowroot grass-cloth joins Christophe Delcourt nightstands; between the newly added birch doorways is a gelatin silver print by Iranian artist Payram.
Black Zimbabwe granite surmounts the brushed, stained oak vanity in the primary bathroom, with Panda White marble flooring.
Black Zimbabwe granite surmounts the brushed, stained oak vanity in the primary bathroom, with Panda White marble flooring.
PRODUCT SOURCES
FROM FRONT
Mark Alexander: straight sofa fabric (living room)
Lorenzo Castillo: armchair fabric, curved sofa fabric
Versmissen: side tables
Porta Romana: glass lamps (living room, entry, bedroom)
Barbara Lormelle: vases (living room)
Karen Swami: blue ceramics
Nicholas Haslam: chandelier (gallery), wall lights (powder room, bedroom)
TFA: bench fabric (gallery)
Creativ Light: pendant light (kitchen)
arteriors: table
Marc Uzan: ceramics
Graff: sink fittings (powder room, primary bathroom)
Schwung: pendant light (dining room)
Circa Lighting: lamp
Nobilis: chair fabric
HK Living: console (entrance)
Allied Maker: chandelier
Tom Kirk: chandelier (corridor)
Christophe Delcourt: nightstands (bedroom)
Lambert&Fils: pendant light (primary bathroom)
THROUGHOUT
Chromatic: wall paint
Galerie Hussenot, Galerie Greta Meert, Galerie Filles du Calvaire, Galerie Scéne Ouverte, Galerie Maison Rapin: artwork

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