Thursday, 26 June 2014

Fringe Benefits

The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames

Details matter. If you are looking for a special way to customize chairs, sofas, lamps or pillows in your home, consider passementerie, which is decorative trimming such as tassels, tapes, braids and fringe. Fringe may call to mind the early twentieth-century rooms of Downton Abbey or the flapper frocks of The Great Gatsby, but fresh colors can make the look new. Trims made of tassels or beads add a sense of movement and can even reflect light in a room. 

"A Napoléon III chair in the living room is upholstered in Tony Duquette’s Tibetan Sun cotton, and urns from HomeGoods are displayed on a console draped in a fabric by Ralph Lauren Home."
Elaine Griffin and Michael McGarry's apartment in an 1890s Harlem brownstone.
Interior design by Elaine Griffin.
Photography by Joshua McHugh.
Elle Decor (May 2011). 

"[Designer Meg] Braff added a bullion fringe to the sofa to bring in more blue. 'You could do the same thing with a sofa off the floor at Crate and Barrel — just add a trim to personalize it,' she says. The same idea also elevates plain lampshades or curtains."
House in Palm Beach.
Interior design by Meg Braff.
Photography by Thibault Jeanson.
Photo originally appeared in House Beautiful, April 2011.

"Club-chair fabric (“Rigoletto”/Taupe #5568/2, by Rose Cumming). 
Trim on club chairs (“Orsay”/Taupe #34607): Samuel and Sons."
Chicago-area home of Larry and Deborah Coven and their children.
Interior design by Gail Plechaty, Real Simple Design.
Photography by Werner Straube.
Text by Krissa Rossbund.
"Bright, White, and Inviting Family Home" produced by Hilary Rose.

Gwen Stefani "shook the fringe of her floor-length Ferragamo flapper dress" at the Ferragamo-sponsored opening of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on October 17, 2013. She was "gracious and gleefully pregnant," with husband Gavin Rossdale at her side."
Photography by Roxanne Lowitt.
"L.A. Nights" by Danielle Nussbaum.
Town and Country (December 2, 2013).

Brian J. McCarthy "designed the living room's walls as 3-D matte-white plaster waves, done wet on site. 'You use these wood combs, so you control the movement, the ebb and flow of it,' says McCarthy. The Cubist-like cocktail table is a copy of one by the 20th-century French designer Marcel Coard, its surface water-gilded in palladium silver leaf for the softest kind of glamour.
Custom two-sided slipper chair in Fadini Borghi fabric. Armchairs, Jonas, in a Quadrille linen. Coffee table, Vosges. Chandelier, Newel Antiques. Art, Sophie von Hellermann."
Interior design by Brian J. McCarthy.
Photography by Max Kim-Bee.
Text by Mimi Read.
"Soothing Seaside Retreat" produced by Carolyn Englefield.

 "Jardins Anglais, 1803 one of the first wallpaper landscapes rendered in continuous scenes, and considered with two other decors, Le Palais Royal and Les Metamorphoses d’Ovide, to be one of the precursors of the scenic panoramique."
Photography by Eric Jansen.

 "Floor to ceiling delft tile adds unexpected pattern to this living room." 
Photography by Melanie Acevedo.

 "In entry, Louis XVI chairs. Tablecloth in Claremont felt; trim, Brunschwig and Fils. Custom console and mirror. Lamp, Robert Altman. Art, Jean-Michel Basquiat."
"Boxwood," an historic estate in Nashville.
Interior design by decorator David Netto and architect Gil Schafer.
Photography by Max Kim-Bee.
Veranda.


"Alexa Hampton, the president of Mark Hampton LLC, was inspired by Mudejar tiles when she designed this room. To 'tile' the walls . . . , panels printed by Chuck Fischer were digitally painted as wallpaper by Duggal."
Kips Bay Decorator Show House 2014.
Interior designer: Alexa Hampton., Mark Hampton LLC.
Photography by Bruce Buck for The New York Times.
"Rocking the Palazzo" by Penelope Green.
New York Times (May 1, 2014).


Detail of Alexa Hampton's luxurious tufted velvet banquette, which was trimmed in Samuel and Sons' Rouen Tassel Fringe.
Kips Bay Decorator Show House 2014.
Interior designer: Alexa Hampton, Mark Hampton LLC.
Photo: Jean Bourbon via Samuel and Sons Passementerie's Facebook page.

"Angela Pham, photographer, doesn't need a fiancé at the moment. She has her fringe (so this season), funky brogues, and Bradley (sort of)."
Photography by Philippe Jarrigeon.
Fashion Editor: Felicia Garcia-Rivera.
Market Editors: Kelly Connor and Chelsea Zalopany
Casting: Zan Ludlum/Zan Casting; Casting Assistant: Sisi Chonco/Zan Casting
Hair: Wesley O’Meara; Makeup: Georgi Sandev
Studio: Fast Ashleys Studios

"Formal living rooms have long been the stage for elegant braids, tiebacks, and fringes in staid palettes. Now trims of all sorts are suddenly popping up in such casual venues as porches and family rooms, where they're showing off the season's hottest colors. Take your pick: Vibrant turquoise, hot pink, apple green, sunny yellow, and vivid orange furbelows are rendered not only in traditional silk, but also in fluffy cotton and in glass and wood beads."
Coral-and-green brush fringe (Samuel and Sons).
Photography by Colleen Duffley.
"Passementerie: On the Bright Side" written and produced by Krissa Rossbund.

"Shells fringe a custom shade on a Pottery Barn lamp in the master bedroom."
Designer Carolyn Espley-Miller's Carpinteria, California, beach house.
Interior design by Carolyn Espley-Miller.
Photography by David Tsay.
House Beautiful (September 2010).

"I love wooden tassel-and-ball fringe in all colors, shapes, and sizes. It looks great on cushions or curtains or lampshades." -Mario Buatta
Photo courtesy of the manufacturer via House Beautiful.
"101 Home Makeover Ideas from 101 Designers" by Christine Pittel.
House Beautiful (February 2009).

Laura Carmichael, Lily James.
"The actresses share a laugh on the Highclere Castle set."
Photo by Austin Hargrave.
The Hollywood Reporter (June 17, 2014).


Laura Carmichael [Lady Edith Crawley] in a behind-the-scenes image from the set of Downton Abbey Season 4.
Photo via PBS/Masterpiece website.

"The second floor of Macar Feyzullah Pasha is laid out in the form of a Byzantine cross."
Serdar Gulgun's hilltop home, Macar Feyzullah Pasha, which overlooks the Bosphorus strait.
Photography by James Merrell.
This piece originally appeared on townandcountry.com.

"Jewel-toned upholstery and silk wall hangings complement Gulgun's collection of Arabic art and calligraphy."
Serdar Gulgun's hilltop home, Macar Feyzullah Pasha, which overlooks the Bosphorus strait.
Photography by James Merrell.
This piece originally appeared on townandcountry.com.

 "Above the living room banquette, a digital blowup of a detail from a Renaissance fresco."
Garrow Kedigian's Manhattan apartment.
Interior design by Garrow Kedigian.
Photography by Christopher Sturman.
House Beautiful (December 2013). 

 "A set of 19th-century chairs dressed in Schumacher's Shock Wave cozies up to a gently worn velvet banquette with P.H. Dorcic bullion fringe and pillows in Holland and Sherry and Dye-Namix fabrics. He [designer Garrow Kedigian] used gold paint to dress up the wood table base by Mecox Gardens. The display cabinets have a faux-limestone finish."
Garrow Kedigian's Manhattan apartment.
Interior design by Garrow Kedigian.
Photography by Christopher Sturman.
House Beautiful (December 2013). 

"The music room's view of the courtyard and mature trees is framed by simple curtains in Scalamandré striped silk. The owners' young sons are talented musicians, and for recitals, an ottoman in Bergamo velvet and sofa covered in chenille and trimmed with deep fringe—both from Claremont—supply the seating. The sofa throw and pillow are in Fortuny silk, the side table and lamp were found at Nial Smith, and the rug is a beautifully faded Oushak. The vintage cocktail table, in black opaline glass and bronze cast to resemble bamboo, is from Wyeth."
Interior design by Christopher Maya.
Photography by John Gould Bessler.
"A Deep Calm" by Christopher Petkanas.
House Beautiful (June 2007).

"In the octagonal entry/dining room, Farrow and Ball’s Lamp Room Gray in Full Gloss shimmers below the etched skylight and a vintage Sputnik pendant. The Baker Shansi table is ringed by Zentique Louis side chairs. Bright seats and fronts (in Holly Hunt Made in the Suede) contrast with dark backs (Rogers and Goffigon’s Biarritz) against the 19th-century pumpkin pine floor. Photograph, Lynn Geesaman."
Designer Nina Farmer's Boston brownstone. 
Interior design by Nina Farmer.
Photography by Paul Raeside.
House Beautiful (March 2014).

"In the dining room, the chairs, table, and walnut chest are all antique, as is the portrait, which came from Greensboro, Georgia; the photograph is by Rinne Allen, and the rug is Scandinavian."
Textile designer and artist Susan Hable Smith's Victorian cottage in Athens, Georgia.
Photography by Richard Powers.
Text by Ingrid Abramovitch.
"Georgian Revival: Susan Hable Smith at Home" produced by Anita Sarsidi.

"A shade trimmed in ball fringe dresses up a custom sconce."
Prewar Greenwich Village apartment.
Interior design by Fawn Galli.
Photography by Jonny Valiant.
House Beautiful (March 2012).

"The blue-and-white palette is updated with blasts of lime green on the rug designed by Jonathan Adler. White bullion fringe accents the ocean-blue sofa, while a Sister Parish floral fabric upholsters matching armchairs." 
Interior design: Elizabeth Schmidt. 
Photography by Werner Straube. 
Text by Amy Elbert. 
“Family Lake Home With Vibrant Color” produced by Sandra L. Mohlmann. 

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Wednesday, 25 June 2014

In Living Color

Do you live your life in Technicolor? Here is a sampling of spaces belonging to people who are not afraid to use every color in the crayon box . . .


"Mexican tiles brighten the guesthouse stair of a Punta Mita [Mexico] home decorated by Martyn Lawrence Bullard."
Design by Martyn Lawrence Bullard Design
Photography by Tim Street-Porter.
"The Pleasure Principle"
Architectural Digest (August 2011).

 "The powder room's hand-painted stripes by Deirdre Newman combine colors used throughout the house. Sink by Waterworks."
A young family's 1919 Tudor home in Rye, New York.
Interior design by Sarah Gilbane.
Photography by Francesco Lagnese.

Display at Mokuba, a ribbon shop in Toronto, Canada.
Photography and text by Michael Penney.
Canadian House and Home (February 14, 2011). 

"Both sofas and the curtains in the family room are covered in Chenonceaux, an ikat by Brunschwig and Fils. Another bold ikat covers the ottoman. Custom dining chairs by Chapman Radcliff are upholstered in Pierre Frey's Le Grand Corail. An end table from John Rosselli Antiques is topped with a blue-and-white ginger jar lamp from Hollywood at Home. Sommers designed the large grass cloth–covered coffee table to accommodate everything from stacks of books to cocktails."
Interior design by Ruthie Sommers.
Photography by Simon Watson.
House Beautiful (March 2014).

"Pucci painted his first scarf in 1949. Hand-colored drawings for scarves from the 1960s and ’70s typify the vibrant colors and patterns that characterized his work."
Photography by Marina Faust.
Text by Joseph Giovannini.

"John Baldessari works are displayed above an Alexandra von Furstenberg console in the salon; a Burmese totem stands at left, the club chairs (with Yastik by Rifat Özbek pillows) are vintage Paul László, and the circa-1960 screen is by Piero Fornasetti."
Renovation architect: Laurent Bourgois.
Photography by Oberto Gili.
Styled by Carlos Mota.
Text by Ian Phillips.
"Veronica Toub's Ultrastylish Paris Apartment" produced by Muriel Brandolini.

 "The made-to-measure kitchen cabinetry was conceptualized by Arora's architect, Antoine Pradels. The bespoke wall of prismatic glass panels was handmade in India."
Paris pied-a-terre of New Delhi-born fashion designer Manish Arora.
Photography by Gaelle Le Boulicaut.
"Next Stop, Wonderland" written by Melissa Goldstein.
Lonny (May 2014).

 "[A] rosy pink claw-foot tub faces a fireplace and sits on inlaid cement tiles from Parisian home store Petit Pan, while a glass wall composed of colored-glass panels painted and etched in India offers patchy privacy."
Paris pied-a-terre of New Delhi-born fashion designer Manish Arora.
Photography by Gaelle Le Boulicaut.
"Next Stop, Wonderland" written by Melissa Goldstein.
Lonny (May 2014).

"In the three-room medieval part of the house, a spectacular geometric pointe de diamant grisaille was inspired by one in the tower of a medieval Bruges hospital. Demeyer had it painted on the walls of the beamed-ceiling dining room. Red velvet and Bruges lace frame a window. Gothic Revival chairs surround the table."
Rooigem, a moated medieval manor near Bruges which was restored by Belgian antiquaire and designer Jean-Philippe Demeyer, artist Frank ver Elst and restorer Jean-Paul Dewever as their design workshop, showroom and residence.
Photography by Miguel Flores-Vienna.
"Well-Lived: Belgian Manor" by Jean Bond Rafferty.

 "[T]wo venerable Italian brands partnered to create modern variations on opus tessellatum, the classic technique of making mosaics from tile. Florentine fashion label Emilio Pucci mined its archives for standouts . . . to develop inspired patterns for tile manufacturer Bisazza. . . . The vivid panel based on the Collane pattern (1971) took six artisans more than 200 hours to fabricate, mixing small, uniform glass pieces with acrylic to create a sense of intricacy reminiscent of Roman and Byzantine mosaics."
Photography courtesy of Bisazza via Architectural Digest.
Daily AD, Architectural Digest (May 15, 2014) 

"Corner unit in Swedish graphic designer Helena Schaeder Söderberg's house."
Photo credit: Helena Schaeder Soderberg via Ish and Chi blog.
"Kids' Book Storage" by Katie Hayden.
Canadian House and Home (April 26, 2013).

"A salmon pink paint makes a further feature of these original built-in cupboards and is a beautiful contrast against the white washed floors."

 "Multicolored bookshelves and plump armchairs make for a cozy feel in the lounge of Bistro du Vin in London's Soho.
Taken from London Style Guide by Saska Graville (Murdoch Books)."

"The nursery's sofa is by Jonathan Adler, the 1980s table is by Milo Baughman, the 1960s fiberglass chairs are Italian, and the carpet is by Missoni; the ceiling is painted in Benjamin Moore Aura in Rhododendron and Peachy Keen, and the wood blinds are painted in Benjamin Moore Satin Impervo in Onyx."
Interior design by Timothy Haynes and Kevin Roberts.
Photography by Simon Upton.
Text by Nancy Hass.

"If you're shy of adding color (or rent your space and are unable to paint) take inspiration from this room designed by Eve Mercier. The Rothko-esque panels on the walls next to the bed are not paint, but vibrant silk.
Taken from the April 2012 issue of House and Garden."

"Paint walls with stripes for a fun – and cheap – take on wallpaper. This striped wall cost $120.
Homeowner Emily Norris found these vintage tufted bedframes for $80 and painted the frames but kept the gold velvet upholstery as-is. For drapery, Emily bought outdoor fabric off-season for $4/yd. and splurged on custom sewing."
Photography by Ashley Capp.

"Update a classic shape with printed fabrics and pastel hues.
Painterly, feminine fabric covers the seat cushion and pairs well with the water-blue velvet on the main body. Rustic and modern tables give the room edge." Wall and trim color: Benjamin Moore's Cloud White.
Interior design by Stacey Smithers.
Photography by Michael Graydon.
Canadian House and Home (March 2012). 

Alabaster eggs.
Photo via Williams-Sonoma.

Pantone Rubik's Cube by industrial designer Ignacio Pilotto.
Photo: Not Beige blog via Canadian House and Home.
"Pantone Love" by Reiko Caron.
Canadian House and Home (May 20, 2011).

"Fashion Magazine's fashion editor-at-large, Susie Sheffman, chose accents in citrus hues to make her all-white dining room warm and inviting. Susie made the geometric art by cutting the centers out of prints [reproductions of Donald Judd prints], then framing both the cutouts and the borders."
Photography by Stacey Brandford.
Canadian House and Home (September 2008).

"A print of Gerhard Richter's '1025 Farben' adds color to the black-walled combination library and home office. A vintage partners desk by Arne Vodder is the nerve center of the space." 
Virginia home of Raji Radhakrishnan. 
Design by Raji Radhakrishnan. 
Photography by Erik Johnson. 
"Taking her Work Home" by Gregory Cerio.
Metropolitan Home (December 2008) via Elle Decor.

"Kids' rooms are one of the places in the house you really can go all out with color, so opt for rainbow brights and bold patterns; children will love these colorful customized shutters. 
Shutters, from Shutterly Fabulous."

 "In the hallway gallery, a Sol LeWitt painting hangs above François Bauchet cabinets from Galerie Kreo."
Architect: Raffaella Bortoluzzi, Lobo Design Studio.
Photography by Bjorn Wallander.
Text by Henry Urbach.
Architectural Digest (April 2014).

"[Mike] McAdams purchased much of the furniture on display at the resort from antiques dealers, including this carved-wood chair."
Lake Austin Spa Resort in Texas.
Interior design by Lake Austin Spa Resort owner Mike McAdams in collaboration with Julio Quinones.
Photography by Ryann Ford.
"Breathing Room" written by Jennifer Fernandez.
Lonny (June 2014). 

  "French-born architect Annabel Karim Kassar transformed this hundred-year-old building [originally a Beirut convent] into a light-filled family home. In the master bedroom, bright colors and Middle Eastern patterns command attention. Hand-painted wallpaper fills the niche behind a steel bed. The encaustic floor tiles are original to the house."
"Colorful Bedrooms: Choose Your Perfect Palette" produced by Lucy Fitzgerald.

Handcrafted beach chairs by Sunrise Chair Co. 
"[Brad] McDowell and eighteen employees handcraft chairs identical to the iconic blue rentals that many of us grew up with, but produced with top-of-the-line American-made materials, including Georgia white oak, rust-resistant brass fittings, and marine-grade Sunbrella fabric in more than 18 color choices. . . . For those who love a monogram, the company offers custom embroidery as well."
"A Better Beach Chair" by M.K. Quinlan.
Daily Shot, Garden and Gun (May 23, 2014).

How do you decide which paint color(s) to use in a space? David Oliver offers this tip -

"Choosing a paint color is one of the most difficult aspects of decoration to get right, as it has as much to do with the light source as the pigments used, and neither is constant. Using sample pots can help you avoid expensive mistakes, but you need the patience of an oyster to see how the color and light change from wet to dry and during the day and at night.One method I find helpful is to paint the inside of a wooden storage or cardboard shoe box. This helps predict how a particular color will change in a room with the different kinds of light throughout the day." - David Oliver.
Photo: Courtesy of Paint and Paper Company via Veranda.

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