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Kemble Interiors

Yossawat — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:57:04 +0000

Celerie Kemble’s childhood was in many ways a design tutorial spent in construction sites, antique stores, and in the unique houses designed by her mother, Mimi McMakin of Palm Beach’s Kemble Interiors. After graduating from Harvard, Celerie worked briefly in film production trying unsuccessfully to resist what she calls a compulsion for design and home improvement. As she puts it, “I dove in 1997 and haven’t come up for air yet.”

Since then, Celerie has been working primarily in Florida and New York helping her clients to, in the words of Michael Boodro of House Beautiful, “incorporate the serendipitous and the sentimental without losing clarity or strength.” Celerie finds much inspiration in the ever changing world of New York fashion by ultimately believing design is an expression of individuality, whim, and imagination — not a product of trends or rules.

“My style is uniquely suited to each client and, due to the younger age of much of my clientele, that’s all over the map. I think what remains cohesive across our body of work is an infusion of colorful vitality and design irreverence. I enjoy a mix of vintage, traditional, and contemporary that’s unencumbered by a fixed formula. Whether I am designing a modern space or a more traditional one, there is always a focus on warmth so the place looks like home, a delightful, exciting place, but home nonetheless.”

Source : Kemble Interiors

Barry Rice Design

Yossawat — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:53:58 +0000

Barry Rice Design creates modern, comfortable interiors with clean lines, natural woods and an emphasis on vintage furnishings. The Brooklyn-based firm provides clients with a high level of professional service and projects with an impeccable attention to detail. The results are expressive, individual, functional and beautiful.

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Portland Home by Jessica Helgerson Interior Design

Yossawat — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:13:32 +0000

Jessica and husband Yianni bought this fixer in Southeast Portland with the goal of restoring the house to its original charm, while creating a comfortable home for their growing family. Yianni and Jessica did much of the work themselves: performing major wall repair; setting tile; adding moldings – which should have been original; installing doors and windows; painting; and building an exterior retaining wall.

Did we mention that Jessica was six months pregnant when they started this project? On their first night in the house, Jessica finally relaxed and promptly went into labor with their second child, Penelope.

Green features in the house include: non-toxic paints and finishes; improved insulation; reclaimed doors and hardware; an antique range; salvaged tile, lighting, and plumbing fixtures; locally-sourced stone retaining wall; recycled glass tile floor in bathroom; and new Oregon native plantings. The furnishings are nearly all vintage or antique.

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Butterfly Lane Residence by JHID

Yossawat — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:55:18 +0000

When these clients came to JHID (JESSICA HELGERSON INTERIOR DESIGN) they said they wanted a “Swedish Cottage by the Sea.” Their site was just steps away from the beach, but they were beginning construction on a house that was much more of a Mediterranean villa.

JHID designed the interior – fireplaces, ceilings, floors, moldings, cabinetry, and tile – to reflect the style they described. They used a light, fresh, color palette of pale yellows, blues, and whites that are typical of Swedish design. The floors are wide-plank hickory. They also successfully integrated their impressive collection of modern art that includes works by Toulouse Lautrec, David Hockney, George Baselitz and Alexander Calder.

In the kitchen, They used a vintage 50’s range with bright red knobs.

They designed the fireplace in the master bedroom to be reminiscent of a Swedish cylindrical tile stove.

In one of the guest baths, a plexi chair offers a playful contrast to the white tiles found in many cottages.

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Town house in Manhattan – Interior design by Sixx Design

Yossawat — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:04:45 +0000

Robert and Cortney Novogratz could pass for poster-perfect suburban parents: They have six preteen kids they shuttle to school every day, log miles on a basement rec-room treadmill, and eat dinner with their brood at a modern refectory table adjacent to a back porch. For fun, they shoot hoops on their basketball court. But they’re the last people you’d expect behind the -wheel of a minivan.

Robert, AA, is an ex—Wall Street sales guy who answers the door in a trucker cap, wrists dangling with string bracelets, and Cortney, 35, an almond-eyed former ac-
tress, retains hints of a Southern drawl that belies a wholly urbane acumen. That basketball court? It’s on the roof of their four-story townhouse, the former gun-room annex of the circa 1905 New York City Police Headquarters, which sits across the street, and whose Renaissance Revival cupola looms above center court.

Such drastic measures aren’t foreign to the couple. They are the principals of Sixx Design, boutique developers who buy small, derelict city properties the big guys overlook and turn them into gracious single-family dwellings. The rebuilt face of this building—thanks to new windows in mahogany casements and light-as-air glass balconies —-would now feel right at home tucked into some Roman side street, and that same cosmopolitan flair doesn’t stop at the front door.

After they cleared the decks, the Novogratzes fashioned a lofty, flexible space that stylishly accommodates sticky fingers as well as discriminating adult tastes. It was a process that incorporated major art, vintage objects, and designer textiles irreverently. The walls and ceilings are Venetian plaster, buffed to a lacquered sheen. Penetrol, a paint additive, was incorporated into the mixture to create the finish and make it easy to clean. “Smudges just wipe right off,” says Cortney. In the first-level kitchen-cum-living-and-dining room, Botri cabinetry is illuminated by 1950s lights from a Monte Carlo casino. The Cappellini sofa is a slip covered model: “We always buy sofas that you can re-buy the slipcovers for,” says Bob. The bedrooms above are furnished in textiles that are rich, graphically. “Patterns lose a lot of stains,” says Cortney, whose master suite is modern with a soft edge, thanks to a Manuel Canovas fabric on curtains and a footboard, and a fluffy hanging light from Moss above the bed.

Source : Sixx Design