
Ema Peters
Opposite to standard perception, there’s quite a bit extra to a front room than a smooth couch or a powerful entertaining setup. As one of the vital trafficked areas of the home—one that may be rivaled solely by the kitchen—a front room affords a novel take a look at a dweller’s design aesthetic. Since the lounge is the backdrop for cozy nights in and intimate comfortable hours, it’s essential that it has the fitting atmosphere to match.
However, because the saying goes, magnificence lies within the eye of the beholder—and this widespread space isn’t any exception. Whether or not you wish to hold your decor minimalist, experiment with a statement-making mild fixture, or incorporate a daring colour palette, there isn’t any one method to embellish a front room. That will help you discover inspiration that matches your style, we combed by means of the ELLE DECOR archives to focus on the perfect front room concepts. The checklist under has one thing for everybody, from a shape-shifting house in West Vancouver to a tropical retreat in Boca Raton. So regardless of which scheme, model, or structure you’ve gravitated towards, this roundup proves that slightly little bit of creativity and considerate planning can go a great distance.
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Depth-Defying Milan Dwelling Room
Milanese architect and designer Hannes Peer took this Italian dwelling space to new heights—actually—by drawing inspiration from the Alps. The low-slung furnishings—which features a brown leather-based sofa from B&B Italia and a classic daybed—deftly balances out the excessive, slatted wooden accents.
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Maximalist Chicago Dwelling Room
Anybody who has a more-is-more aesthetic will discover quite a bit to like about this zesty prewar condo in Chicago. Designer Summer season Thornton doubled down on boldness with jewel-toned seating, a pair of pendants from City Electrical Co., and a candy wallcovering by de Gournay.
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Moody New York Dwelling Room
This Higher West Aspect condo single-handedly proves that the darkish facet has loads of perks. Designer Kevin Dumais created an area that’s equal elements good-looking and homey with a plethora of textures. The suede wallpaper by Holly Hunt, {custom} ottoman, and Daniel Wenger lounge chair give this house the tactile remedy.
Craving some much-needed pops of colour? Take a cue from lighting designer Marie-Lise Féry’s French abode. Swathed in Farrow & Ball’s Blue Grey, this room includes a velvet Christophe Delcourt sectional and candy-coated Magic Circus Éditions lamp, providing a grown-up tackle a rainbow palette.
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A Dwelling Room with Seating a-Lots
As this Hollywood Hills front room—which was designed by agency Nickey Kehoe for Suzanne Goin—proves, you possibly can by no means have too many seats. This Spanish-style house pairs the unique Douglas fir-beamed ceiling with a cornucopia of sofas and armchairs, all of that are from the designers.
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Sample-Packed Palm Seashore Dwelling Room
Embrace your daring streak with strategically positioned patterns. On this Palm Seashore villa, Mark D. Sikes turned this front room right into a delightfully whimsical retreat with a hypnotic array of prints. However since every repeat boasts an identical blue-and-white scheme, the room is eye-catching, not over-the-top.
If film nights in are your prime precedence, you’ll love this house that Kovac Design Studio created for Hollywood agent Todd Feldman. The spacious nice room boasts a {custom} motorized display screen, making a floating house theater. A sectional by Patricia Urquiola for B&B Italia, RH, Restoration {Hardware} cocktail desk, and a rug from Armadillo make this the proper place to Netflix and chill.
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St. Petersburg Dwelling Room
In search of a red-hot front room concept? Contemplate making the hearth the point of interest of the room—simply as Tim Veresnovsky did on this St. Petersburg condo. The oak-paneled fireplace is flanked by a Sergei Khrabrovsky couch, classic leather-based armchair, and Zara Dwelling facet desk.
Make your front room really feel like an otherworldly oasis, simply as Fawn Galli did on this Boca Raton retreat. From a rattan cocktail desk by India Mahdavi to a half-moon form Lejeune couch—which is swathed in Dedar velvet and Scalamandre’s Maquis Tapestry Agave repeat—this house affords trip vibes across the clock.
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Form-Shifting Dwelling Room
For a pared-back method to make your front room pop, play with totally different shapes. When adorning this Vancouver pad for a mother-daughter duo, PlaidFox’s Ben Leavitt featured an angular, Nineteen Seventies-inspired chimney breast in red- and pink-toned Mutina tiles. Rounding out the room is a {custom} curvaceous sofa and leather-based ottoman from Moroso.
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Trendy Midtown Dwelling Room
For a straightforward (but efficient!) method to rack up the compliments, think about including a punchy sofa to a impartial house. Right here, Dorothy Berwin added a brilliant purple couch from Francis Sultana to a high-contrast house.
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Combine-and-Match Dwelling Room
Why accept one design model when you possibly can take pleasure in a couple of? On this Palm Seashore abode, designer Caroline Rafferty juxtaposed a 20-foot-long white couch from CB2 with modern artwork and an vintage cocktail desk designed by Pierre Jeanneret. The crisp palette and jolts of main colours strike a cheerful stability between delicate and assertion.
It’s no surprise that the lounge packs the “wow” issue of this condo on Manhattan’s Higher East Aspect. Designer Stephen Sills paired the brilliant Lee Jofa wallcovering with a Louis XIV marble mantel and vintage French chairs draped in a Clarence Home silk.
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Stylish London Dwelling Room
Many years after its final refurbishment in 1991, a well known Kuwaiti household enlisted designer Nebihe Cihan to spruce up their charming London flat. Cihan used sculptural particulars and a jewel-toned couch from Minotti to offer the house a contemporary edge—with out stripping it of its wealthy historical past.
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Relaxed Higher West Aspect Dwelling Room
Danielle Colding achieved her signature “cozy cool” look on this prewar condo on Manhattan’s Higher West Aspect. The crisp white front room is anchored by a settee from Jayson Dwelling and a Papilio chair, creating an oasis of simplicity, ease, and eclecticism.
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California Coastal Dwelling Room
When Kim Alexandriuk was tasked with designing a household’s trip house in Montecito, California, she sought to focus on lots of the house’s European options. In the lounge, she added a Paola Navone couch and a slipper chair by Paul Marra Design to play off the extravagant hearth.
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Star-Studded Dwelling Room
Designer Isabel López-Quesada refreshed this charming Madrid condo—which the actress Ava Gardner used to name house—with smooth, romantic particulars. Highlights embrace sofas reimagined in Brochier velvet, Pierre Paulin’s Mushroom chairs, and paintings by Donna Huanca.
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Cozy Upstate Dwelling Room
Three years after a hearth broke out behind his house, designer Shawn Henderson restored his upstate New York house to be a soothing escape from the massive metropolis. This petite front room is undeniably serene, because of a Kaare Klint couch, a chair by Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist, and a flexible cocktail desk courtesy of Frits Henningsen.
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Vintage-Crammed Dwelling Room
Consider Chiqui de Echavarría’s Colombian house as a passport-free method to journey the world. With an vintage bench from India, South Africa–sourced work, and a Spanish Colonial couch in a Palma de Mallorca material, this brick-clad front room has a real world edge.
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Hudson Valley Dwelling Room
Sheila Bridges took her Hudson Valley, New York, front room to new heights (actually) with a cell she co-designed with Elizabeth Parker. Rounding out the room is a Hammertown Barn couch, a classic facet desk, and a fire by Ortal.
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Refined Higher East Aspect Dwelling Room
Designer Tom Scheerer added some uptown opulence to this Manhattan condo with a Fifties Danish desk by Jacob Kjaer and textiles from Holland & Sherry, Borderline, and Kravet. With a impartial backdrop—in addition to the occasional pops of inexperienced and blue—this front room is each elegant and eclectic.
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Trendy California Dwelling Room
Designer Ernest de la Torre up to date this Tudor-style house in Bel Air—which was constructed by Hollywood architect Paul R. Williams in 1934—with trendy panache. A classic Jean Royère chair and a rug by Edward Fields soften the modern house.
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Artwork Nouveau Dwelling Room
When restoring her condo in Tbilisi, Georgia, inside designer Eka Papamichael juxtaposed the house’s wealthy Artwork Nouveau structure with a classic cocktail desk, a Murano glass ceiling pendant, and sofas by Gervasoni.
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Daring & Vivid Dwelling Room
Srila Chatterjee and Mahesh Mathai put their daring aesthetic on full show of their Mumbai front room. The colourful purple partitions are paired with flea-market finds, a tiger sculpture from Kerala, and a {custom} ottoman and chairs.
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Muted California Dwelling Room
Mixing two distinctly totally different kinds in a single house is a tall order. When newlyweds requested Natasha Baradaran to embellish their Santa Monica, California, house, she stuffed the lounge with numerous textiles in a straightforward, impartial colour palette. The end result? The proper compromise between bohemian and Artwork Deco.
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Sixteenth-Century Tuscan Dwelling Room
At this Sixteenth-century retreat outdoors Siena, Italy, restored by Hubert Zandberg, extra is extra. The designer added a hearty dose of colour into the lounge, overlaying the furnishings in textiles from Mulberry and de Le Cuona.
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Subtle Milan Dwelling Room
Being neck-deep in a intestine renovation—within the midst of the pandemic, no much less—can really feel overwhelming. Nonetheless, Dimorestudio’s Emiliano Salci turned his new Milan condo right into a theatrical abode. He furnished his pigmented front room with vintage finds in addition to items from his home-furnishings model, Dimoremilano.
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Traditional-Meets-Cool Dwelling Room
When designing his San Francisco house, Antonio Martins took a visit down reminiscence lane for inspiration. From a gallery wall of Seventeenth-, 18th-, and Nineteenth-century portraits to the modern RH, Restoration {Hardware} cocktail desk, his front room bridges the hole between outdated and new.
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Lodge Foyer–Esque Dwelling Room
Because the mogul behind 1 Inns and the Baccarat Lodge, Barry Sternlicht brings a well-appointed eye to his hospitality ventures. So it’s solely becoming that his private residence follows swimsuit. Sternlicht offers his Miami Seashore front room the first-class remedy with a Jean de Merry armchair, facet tables from MS Ceramic Design, and a settee coated in Loro Piana material.
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Enjoyable and Female Dwelling Room
When Lucinda Loya was tapped to design vogue mannequin Maya Henry’s London flat, she needed to fill the chilly house with loads of character. From the fringed Munna chairs to a candy-coated colour palette, this front room feels female and edgy in equal measure.
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Artwork-Crammed Hamptons Dwelling Room
Furnishings doubles as artwork on this Hamptons house. A white couch matching the wall and flooring units the stage for cream classic Joe Colombo chairs that flank a {custom} Marmoreal espresso desk. The Egan Frantz paintings spans the size of the couch.
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California Informal Dwelling Room
Uncovered beams, a plaster hearth, and wrought iron door frames create a Mediterranean vibe on this Newport, California house. A mixture of cream upholstery with wooden furnishings and flooring appears to be like elegant however not fussy.
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Excessive-Distinction Dwelling Room
An accent wall made from darkish charcoal tiles boldly stands out on this elegant Mill Valley front room. Deep blacks complement heat whites with gold accents to create a glamorous scheme.
Trendy updates like industrial lighting and a refined cement ground create an eclectic aesthetic on this old-word front room. Dice-shaped poufs and linen-upholstered Bergère chairs add softness and texture.
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Glam Chicago Dwelling Room
A classy, impartial front room in Chicago’s historic Palmolive constructing includes a intelligent mixture of antiques and classic finds, which create a way of stability.
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Palm Seashore Dwelling Room
A Twenties Palm Seashore house, owned by artwork adviser Heidi McWilliams, serves as the proper backdrop for displaying her spectacular assortment. The lounge is furnished with claret armchairs (proper) and a hexagonal desk by Rose Tarlow Melrose Home, together with a impartial rug by Patterson Flynn Martin. An Anish Kapoor mirrored wall sculpture accentuates the Sixteenth-century Italian limestone mantel, and the coffered ceiling, which is authentic, provides character to the room.
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Minimalist Dwelling Room
Kara Mann’s Chicago front room is a lesson in minimalist design. A pair of white chairs complement the marigold-colored rug by Miyabi Casa. The flooring are large-scale limestone tiles.
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Serene Ibiza Sitting Room
This Ibiza front room options local-limestone flooring coated in {custom} Spanish esparto rugs from Antonia Molina. Partitions coated in a sandy lime plaster, and a wood-beam ceiling set a country tone in the lounge. Customized sofas are by Atelier Tapissier Seigneur and the curtains are in a quilted Braquenié material; the Oeil cocktail desk by Pierre Chapo is classic, the lacquered-coral sculpture is by Maurizio Epifani, and the portray over the mantel is by Alex Katz.
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Refined Buenos Aires Dwelling Room
In a Buenos Aires house, the unique marble mantel in the lounge was specified by Maison Jansen, who embellished the condo within the Thirties. The circa-1940 chairs within the foreground, the console (left), and the facet desk (proper) had been designed by Jean-Michel Frank for the Argentine agency Comte. The Thirties Frits Henningsen sofa is roofed in a Holland & Sherry mohair, the chairs subsequent to the hearth are 18th-century Gustavian, the circa-1950 Sphere cocktail desk and lamp are by Jean Royère, and the Thirties desk (entrance left) and sconces are by Maison Jansen.
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Amanda Seyfried’s Dwelling Room
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California Bungalow Lounge
For designer Patrick Printy, his bungalow in Oakland, California is all about eccentric design. On this dwelling space hooked up to his research, a pair of classic sofas are upholstered in a Ralph Lauren Dwelling stripe, the Eero Saarinen desk is from Design Inside Attain, barstools by CB2 are coated in a Katie Ridder material, the ceiling lantern is by Visible Consolation, the rug is by Ralph Lauren Dwelling, and the busts are by Oly.
The artworks embrace pictures by Jason Fulford, Garry Winogrand, and Richard Misrach, flanked by silhouette portraits by Julian Opie.
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Jewel-Toned Dwelling Room
This London townhouse has a front room crammed with {custom} designs, comparable to a settee coated in a Donghia patterned velvet, one other upholstered in a Le Manach silk velvet, and a spherical banquette, which is topped with a Nineteen Forties French bronze sculpture.
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Vivid Greek Island Dwelling Room
The lounge on this Greek Island house includes a {custom} cocktail desk and banquette, and striped pillows upholstered in a Les Toiles du Soleil material. The Queen Elizabeth II print is by Andy Warhol.
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An Ethereal Loft Dwelling Room
New York-based designer Becky Shea crafted a shocking New York Metropolis loft for Homepolish co-founder Will Nathan. The lounge, which showcases a mixture of industrial components in addition to Shea’s organic-modernist aesthetic, is a lesson in open-concept dwelling.
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A Sample-Crammed Hollywood Dwelling Room
Actress Minnie Driver’s inviting Hollywood front room options a mixture of classic materials and patterns. Window remedies in complementary colours add stability to the light-filled house.
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Christiane Lemieux’s Dwelling Room
Christiane Lemieux’s New York Metropolis loft contains paintings by Robert Swain, {custom} sofas coated in a impartial linen, and a espresso desk and facet desk from the Brimfield Present and a Paris flea market.
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Gentle-Crammed Dwelling Room
White partitions and modern furnishings give this front room a clear and basic really feel. Pure components, by means of driftwood and greenery, carry the outside in.
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Clear and Vivid Washington, D.C., Dwelling Room
Architect Piet Boon and designer Jennifer Schmidt remodeled a Washington, D.C. loft with a palette of gray, white, and wooden in mild tones. Textured accents, together with gray velvet chairs, add curiosity to the open house.
A Brooklyn townhouse in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, includes a couch from ABC Carpet & Dwelling upholstered in a cloth by Soraya Shah for Studio 4 NYC. The house additionally features a chaise by Timothy Oulton, a Danish cocktail desk, the Akari pendant mild by Noguchi, window remedies in a Rebecca Atwood material, and a classic Moroccan rug. The partitions are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Huntington White and the trim in Iron Mountain. {A photograph} by Claire Nitze and a cameo portrait by Doug Meyer full the lounge.
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Gramercy Park Dwelling Room
For a Gramercy Park condo, designer Bennett Leifer upholstered a sofa in a Sabina Fay Braxton velvet, and selected a pair of carved wooden armchairs by de Gournay coated in a Stark velvet. The Empire console is from Lucca Antiques, the cocktail desk is by Ebanista, the classic stool is by Maison Baguès, the Louis XVI secretary was bought on 1stdibs, the Tabriz rug is vintage, and the partitions are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Alexandria Beige.
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Assertion Fire Dwelling Room
Architect Luís Bernardo Brito e Abreu renovated his São Miguel house to replicate his household’s creative, maritime historical past. The lounge includes a classic chair by Illum Wikkelsø, and the mantel and stone benches are each of native basalt. The sculpture of a head on the bench at proper is by Ernesto Canto da Maya, and the wall sculpture above the mantel is a Sixteenth-century naval ornament.
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Chicago Penthouse Dwelling Room
Alisa Bloom recreated the atmosphere of a French inside in her refined Chicago penthouse. In the lounge, she opted for a {custom} couch in a Kravet material with pillows in a Jim Thompson silk. The Nineteen Seventies chairs are from Revival, and the classic cocktail desk is from Martin La Brocante. She completed the house with a console by Crate & Barrel, a classic chandelier by Hans-Agne Jakobsson, and curtains in an Oscar de la Renta material for Lee Jofa. The partitions are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Cement Grey.
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Concrete And Navy Dwelling Room
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Japanese-Model Dwelling Room
In the lounge of Vivia Horn’s Japanese-style retreat in Hunter, New York, the leather-and-plastic Italian sofas, cocktail desk, and wool shag rug had been bought within the Nineteen Eighties at Bloomingdale’s. The Japanese-style fireplace pit and tin vary hood are {custom}, the ground lamp is from the ’70s, the sisal carpet is by Stark, the ceiling beams are Douglas fir, and a collection of colour lithographs from Japan are displayed alongside the pine wainscoting.
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Eclectic Farmhouse Dwelling Room
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Central Park Aerie Dwelling Room
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Modern Dwelling Room
In the lounge of Kris Ghesquière and Eva Claessens’s home in southeastern Uruguay, which they constructed on the stays of an 1810 roadside normal retailer, the chair was constructed by an area carpenter primarily based on an image in {a magazine}, the classic desk in entrance of the couch was discovered at an public sale in France and the rug is from Iran; the yellow lamb sculptures are by William Sweetlove, and the work and feather sculpture are by Claessens.
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Antiques-Laden Dwelling Room
In the lounge of an antique-laden condo in Greenwich Village, the vintage Swedish couch and Baroque chair, proper, are upholstered in Robert Kime materials, the armchair is 18th-century French and a classic Persian Soumak rug from Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar rests on a sea-grass rug from ABC Carpet & Dwelling. Among the many objects on the wall are an vintage water-buffalo cranium, Nineteenth-century French gouaches and a drawing by Jean Cocteau.
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Shade-Doused Dwelling Room
John Robshaw’s vibrant Connecticut home is overflowing with character: The lounge couch and its material are by John Robshaw for Duralee. The armchair, {custom} banquettes, and bone-inlay facet desk are all Robshaw designs, the cocktail desk is from India, the desk lamps are by Christopher Spitzmiller, and the dhurrie is a {custom} design. An Elliott Puckette paintings sits on the mantel, which is painted in Yukon Sky by Benjamin Moore, and the big portray of a fragrance bottle is by Doug Wada.
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Pastel Patterned Dwelling Room
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Nature-Embracing Dwelling Room
In a distant New Zealand surf city, architects Lance and Nicola Herbst ingeniously tuck a spacious weekend retreat amid a lush grove of unique bushes. Within the dwelling space of the home, designed in its entirety by the couple, the couch is a {custom} design, and the hearth by Masport Heating is ready in a custom-made metal cupboard; the pendant mild is by Secto Design and the partitions are sheathed in black-stained western purple cedar.
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Midcentury Dwelling Room (with a Texas Twist)
When San Francisco residents Sam Hamilton and Jen Chaiken determined to purchase a second house in Marfa, Texas, after holding their vacation spot marriage ceremony close by, they knew they needed a layered aesthetic.
In the lounge, a Poul Henningsen mild fixture and a Navajo rug within the household room; a cupboard by Robert “Mouseman” Thompson holds an Ansel Adams {photograph}, and the partitions are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Cloud White.
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Stylish and Ethereal Dwelling Room
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Vivid and Daring Dwelling Room
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Emmy Rossum’s Dwelling Room
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Trendy Nautical Dwelling Room
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Stately Historic Dwelling Room
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Fortunately Eclectic Dwelling Room
The Manhattan house of inside designer Frank de Biasi and textile artist Gene Meyer flaunts a front room with a circa-1790 American secretary, a pair of bamboo étagères which are from a Paris flea market and curtains of a John Rosselli linen. The display screen is by de Biasi, and the classic wicker stool is by Franco Albini.
In the lounge of Evan and Ku-Ling Yurman’s TriBeCa condo, the mid-century furnishings embrace a pair of Nanna Ditzel chairs, a Hans Wegner armchair and a cocktail desk by Hendrik van Keppel and Taylor Inexperienced, bought at public sale.
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Retro Stylish Dwelling Room
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Artwork-Crammed Trendy Dwelling Room
Kelsey Mulvey is a contract life-style journalist, who covers procuring and offers for Marie Claire, Girls’s Well being, and Males’s Well being, amongst others.
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