Rooted in the past, knowledge, craft, as well as memory combine in classic design to grow the next generation of modern living.
Classic Design Products Blend with Modern Living
De Gournay
Rose Antiqued hand-painted Badminton chinoiserie on tarnished silver-gilded paper is an investment-grade wallcovering. But the look of faded grandeur is showing up everywhere in hotels and interior design, offering up the comforting and reassuring patinas of the past. This hand-painted beauty is newly launched. Its antique finish on a metallic ground comes from “the unexpectedly beautiful tarnish that a client’s panels acquired when she stored them in a humid attic.”
Studebaker Metals
This Pittsburgh-made artisanal cocktail strainer comes from a very basic set of hand-tools: a shear, a punch, and a few hammers and stakes. The skill of the maker brings it all together into an heirloom quality object that your grandchildren will also marvel at decades in the future.
Today’s Home
Taylor King’s Collette banquet, Beauchamp chair, and Taylor Made sectional offer an updated take on English country style…with touch of modern whimsy. Florals, stripes, velvet, fringe, and pleats layer together in a time-tested formula but in colors and patterns right for today.
Eddie Maestri
Details carefully noted while on a trip to France, including a stay at Château de Gudanes in the French Pyrenees, left designer Eddie Maestri with myriad lasting impressions: the way light softened stone, how rooms felt layered but never heavy, how nothing tried too hard. The mood board he shares with TABLE captures the mood of restraint, proportion, warmth, and a sense of lived-in elegance. The mix reflects the process of his studio, which includes studying details and collecting moments, and also allowing them to make their way naturally into architecture and interiors.
Photos at upper left and right come from Maestri at the Château. They are visual notes of his time there. Sketches were quick drawings of the rooms and other details that caught his attention. Dried items were gathered near his office in Texas, organic shapes and colors that reminded him of his time in France. Other objects, like old keys, a framed chateau print, as well as a vintage oil portrait, come from his visits to French flea markets. Fabrics and materials come from Rosemary Hallgarten, Jane Clayton and Company, Schumacher, and de Le Cuona.
Story by Keith Recker and Stephen Treffinger
Styling by Keith Recker
Principal photography by Dave Bryce
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