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Set of 5 Plaster Geometric Shapes



Set of 15 Plaster Geometric Shapes




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The street, photographed by Alvin Langdon Coburn, as it was at the end of the 19th century. The architecture is predominantly Regency and Vogue Regency (the style prevalent with the smart set of the 1920s).

While one needs to respect the client's wishes one should not disregard the architectural integrity of the space. Above all the client wanted the apartment to be masculine. Unfortunately, this desire often manifests itself with boxy pieces of leather furniture. Here, however, the client was steered towards a restricted palette (Indian jade, black, burnt orange, and a dirty greyish white) and more organically shaped pieces to achieve the desired effect.




The living room is sill awaiting its rug, which needed to be re-coloured. Elephants gestate faster.





The Jansen mirrors were a great find (that is code for the client did not collapse when told the price), as was the bar. The fireplace still awaits its fire bowl.



And this (in terracotta) is sill the perfect piece to help finish the room.




The accent colour changes from burnt orange to yellow as one moves into the private space of the apartment.




Originally the kitchen was a testament to the 80s - white and grey marble tiles and pale blue-grey cabinetry.
The cabinetry now painted black (with whiskey coloured interiors), the marble replaced with cork and oak, and the hardware bronzed. Hopefully more an homage to T. E. Lawrence than a testament to the 2000s.


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In the round

A large Regency giltwood convex mirror with an ebonised reeded border surrounded by moulded sides studded with gilt balls. The winged eagle surmount holding a double tassel chain in its beak and standing upon a fluted pedestal.




Victorian carved ebonised salon chair with turned and fluted supports - the raised upholstered seat and back re-covered in Lee Jofa's Althea glazed cotton.




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Inspired

A pair of French black and white marble table lamps by Philippe Barbier, c.1970.


Pair of black and white natural-pearl and diamond ear clips, signed Van Cleef & Arpels, once the property of the Duchess of Windsor.


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Out of context...

The most ordinary of things can be quite smart. Such as these Cuban cinema posters.

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Handbags at dawn

Maison21's obsessive compulsive decorating disorder challenge - the objective is to take disparate elements (in this case the tusk dining table base, the cerused oak flooring and the beige colour scheme) and make them work.


Contemporary alabaster ceiling light from Antiquario. Hand carved from a solid block by a Bay Area artisan.



Maison21's tusk dining table base, which would be done with a composite stone top (as I positively loathe glass topped dining tables) to match the base in colour and mirror its profile.



Billy Baldwin dining slipper chair with raffia body.


Lee Jofa's Zephyr in granite for the seat cushions and the curtains.



Pair of French industrial steel cabinets from Briggs House Antiques.



Zoffany's Paper-White for woodwork and ceiling, and Barley for the walls.



Cerused oak flooring.



Spider Diptych, 2004, watercolour on paper (480 x 300cm) by Alf Löhr.


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So many chairs, so little time

Victorian oak Aesthetic style spindle back dining chairs with turned and tapering front legs.


Eric Cohler's Darley horsehair in Bark




Regency pollard oak dining chairs with tapering turned reeded front legs.


Lee Jofa's Musetta Print in Grass




17th Century dining chairs with foliate and bird carving above a cane panel flanked by carved scroll uprights and cane seats, with scroll carved supports and stretchers.


Lee Jofa's Karsa Flamestich in Fall


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How one should use toile

Copiously.

Nest, Summer 2001 - This is a Genuine Emergency
Andre Leon Talley photographed by Jason Schmidt in his Lenox Hill Hospital room decorated by Mica Ertegun (MACII). Fran Lebowitz takes a cigarette break outside.

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How one should use toile

Copiously.

Nest, Summer 2001 - This is a Genuine Emergency
Andre Leon Talley photographed by Jason Schmidt in his Lenox Hill Hospital room decorated by Mica Ertegun (MACII). Fran Lebowitz takes a cigarette break outside.

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New lamps from old

A 19th Century oval silver plated tea urn with lion mask handles and an ivory tap would make a great lamp.




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New lamps from old

A 19th Century oval silver plated tea urn with lion mask handles and an ivory tap would make a great lamp.




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Orient express

Architectural Digest, September 1985
Interiors by Emilio Carcano
Photographs by Derry Moore
Original text by Lee Radzwill






Two different views of the drawing room of Rudolph Nureyev's Paris apartment. The walls are covered in Cordova leather panels. The sofas are covered in a rich Genoese velvet (below). The Neo-Gothic frieze and specimen marble chimney (above) were designed by art director Emilio Carcano to be unashamedly romantic and a reflection of Nureyev's rich imagination.









The dining room-cum-library with its collection of French Academic paintings. The table is a 19th Century example done in vert des Pyrenees marble. The 19th Century Russian sofa is covered in Caucasian kilims.







The guest room with its adjacent trompe l'oiel decorated bathroom. The Bibiena engravings depict the history of Baroque theatre design.






The Vienna State Opera Ballet's 1967 production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in the lead roles.


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