High in the Sky -an Art Filled Home

You are too late, this extraordinary home sold last year.  If it was on the market now, I would have featured it on my other blog, Interior Ambitions, under "On the Market".

It is the decor, the furnishings, the art, the ceilings, the moldings etc etc, that will be appreciated on this blog, which is about Interior Design.  Nevertheless, this is an extraordinary property. This pre-war apartment with the 24 foot high living room, was listed by Monica Luque of Prudential Douglas Ellman.  It was listed for $20,000,000.

The homeowners found this large, high ceiling, light filled space that would be the perfect backdrop for their large art collection after looking at 120 apartments.

 

The apartment has more than 4,200 square feet, three bedrooms and 2½ baths. The home has a dining room with original paneling, wine cellar, library, another fireplace and a large kitchen built for entertaining.

The Miro-like ceiling is by Madrid-based artist Ramon Canet, who lived and painted in the apartment while the owners did early renovations.

In the day, light floods in. At night, the minarets of the museum appear like tops of lit temples in Marrakesh or Istanbul. An 8-foot working stone fireplace built in the 17th-century on the Iberian Peninsula centers the room. Floor to ceiling Corinthian columns give the feeling of being in a museum, castle, or giant public library.

Looking north over the American Museum of Natural History and Central Park through a movie-screen-size wall of steel-cased windows, a single living room with 24-foot-high ceilings is half as long as a basketball court.

 

Pictures, information about property, listing information collected from: New York Daily News,  Elite Daily News, Designrulz Blog, Miss-DesignBlog, Design Attractor Blog.

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Is there ever anything as beautiful as nature?  Not if the above images are to be believed.  Vintage doors, metal objects, brick, stucco, trees and other mediums aged to perfection by nature.  Enjoy similar images on your own nature walks.  Or enjoy the very contemporary looks to the very old images above.

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It All Begins With Art

Designing a Room Around Art

This is a lovely piece of art available from Mytwodesigners.com 

When you start the design process with an empty room, start with a piece of art that feels right for you.  Using the art to develop your color theme is a great way to begin to fill the room with furniture and accessories you love. I use a site called Olioboard, www.olioboard.com to prepare my mood boards then arrange them into a 2D or 3D looking room.  It really helps clients visualize their space.olioboard.com

Using this piece of art as the foundation for colors, this is how the Living Room would progress:

Gold club chair Zoe laylagrace.com, oblong metal table Piazza Bar interiordesign.net,  grey sofa Lee Jofa. Not available wire chair, white dresser, cocktail table

Sconce lumen.com $170.95, small art onekingslane.com, pair hombre vases moderndomicile.net $72.50, pair tall vases Ikea.com, small candle lamp onekingslane.com, oval silver lamp Sunny Isles, lumens.com, ginger jar shade only drum shadesoflight.com $129, pillows from left Monticita laylagrace.com $100, grey Greek Key shopgreife.com, stripe look Fench Frou Designersguild.com $121.95, oblong pillow Dwell Studio deconstructed Zincdoor.com $95, not available rug, drape, 6 light pendant

After the foundation pieces are selected, we would then move to select the finishing touches.  We add to the color scheme to bring in some of the lighter and darker shades of the yellows and greys.

This new Living Room now is completed and this is the final look, IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE ART.