DESIGN

Pernille Teisbaek – Copenhagen Home

Pernille Teisbaek a Danish creative director and designer husband Philip Lotko were lucky enough to have found and begun renovations on an 1875 home in western Copenhagen. They built a beautiful minimalistic home filled with quality details.

They enlisted Peter Møller to design the moldings and white plaster birds on the ceiling in the living room. Below is a before and after of the living room and the noted plaster details.

Malene Hvidt, architect from the Copenhagen studio Spacon & X was hired to help with the layout of the home. Pernille and Philip wanted a home that was romantic yet practical to raise their 3 boys in. Pernille states “The kitchen is made of steel, in contrast with the romanticism of the stucco. Dialectics make things more interesting. I like steel and it’s easy to clean, which you can’t do if red wine stains a more delicate surface.”

Love the romantic curves of the staircase and the softness of the chevron wood floor.

Simple neutral details and below a feature stripped stone floor.

Check out her style below.

FOR THE LOVE OF KITCHENS – DeVOL KITCHENS

Have you watched the show ‘For the love of Kitchens’ yet on HBO Max?!? It is so good. I am obsessed with Helen Parker the creative director! I love that Cotes Mill a historic 16th-century water mill on the banks of the River Soar, just outside Loughborough, is an epicenter of creativity; an artisans dream world. They conceptualize and create furniture, lighting, kitchen accessories and ceramics just to name a few categorizes of items available to the public. It is great to see how co-founder Paul O’leary, managing director Robin McLellan and Helen encourage their team to explore design ideas creating what seems like healthy artistic work environment and as a result creating one of a kind DeVol staples.

They have 5 different kitchen collections – The Real Shaker, The Classic English, The Heirloom, The Sebastian Cox and The Haberdasher.

The Real Shaker Kitchen

The Classic English Kitchen

The Heirloom Collection

The Sebastian Cox Kitchen

The Haberdasher Kitchen

Look how sweet Paul and Helen seem (below). Please watch the show and let me know your thoughts!

NATE BERKUS + JEREMIAH BRENT NYC APT

Handsome couple Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent had what they thought was their forever home in L.A. but they missed the NYC energy. They decided to purchase a  3,400 SQ, FT;  1899 townhouse in the West Village. They are the masters at making spaces feel homier by adding texture and details. They gutted the town home aside from the MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing), added an 18th-century Italian mantel, wallpaper, vintage light fixtures + mohair rugs. Check out how beautiful their NYC family home is.

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LA- ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES

Renzo Piano is the famed Italian Architect enlisted to design the 300,000 Sq Ft Academy Museum on Whilshire Blvd in California.The building will host a collection of film memorabilia including set designs, costumes, props and interactive installations. Over 140,000 films, 10 million photos, 42,000 original film posters and 10,000 production drawings.

The original building was constructed in 1938 and has been vacant for the last 20 years. Once again the building will be part of the evolving urban LA scene.

Renzo Piano’s workshop has worked on the designs for the museum’s two buildings since 2012 and should be completed in 2019.

A new spherical addition will accommodate a 1,000-seat theater and a dome-covered terrace with views of the Hollywood Hills. Across the campus, long-term exhibitions presenting the history of movie-making will be accompanied by a program of temporary installations dedicated to specific movies, genres or directors. As well as the large theater in the sphere – designed for events, premiers and presentation – a smaller 288-seat auditorium will host screenings. Restaurants, shops and education spaces will also feature.

“The millions of people around the world who make and love movies will be able to come to the epicenter of film-making and experience the magic of this art form,” said Academy CEO Dawn Hudson.”They’ll see firsthand the vast collections of the academy and the work of our members. And, they’ll be able to do that all year – not just on Oscar night.”

(Excerpt from designboom.com)

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NYC- WILL KOPELMAN’S HOME

Art Adviser- Will Kopelman enlisted architect Gil Schafer of G. P. Schafer Architect to help him realize his vision for his four- bedroom duplex on Park Avenue.  Prior to enlisting Shafer’s help to reconfigure the duplex into an expansive family zone, the formal dining room, cramped kitchen, butler’s pantry, and laundry room  were organized into smaller rooms. “It was a rabbit warren,” Schafer notes, “totally opposite to the way families live today.”

“I wanted to make the kitchen the centerpiece,” Kopelman continues. “It’s where I make the girls breakfast in the morning and cook their dinner at night. It’s where we watch our movies, and it’s where I do a lot of work, right at the dining table. I wanted a space that could handle all of that.

In the multi-family zone between living rooms there are large steel-and-glass doors that were installed to allow light into the entry way but to also keep sound travel to the rest of the apartment.

FOYERLIVING ROOMLIVING ROOM 2LIVING ROOM 5A 15-foot-long 17th-century tapestry depicting the coronation of Charlemagne that Kopelman snagged at auction in London before realizing it was too fragile to be unmounted and rolled up and so had to be crated flat for shipping and then craned in through the windows of the 10th-floor duplex.

LIVING ROOM 1A 1977 Triumph Bonneville 750 motorcycle stands like a sculpture in one corner. “When I had my children, I decided I didn’t want to ride anymore, but I didn’t want to sell it—it came off the production line the same year I was born!—so there it sits.”

KITCHEN 1KITCHENThere’s plenty of storage, including a cupboard specially designed to hold cereal boxes at kid-friendly height and a built-in wine cellar for the grown-ups. “I wanted to make the kitchen the centerpiece,” Kopelman continues. “It’s where I make the girls breakfast in the morning and cook their dinner at night. It’s where we watch our movies, and it’s where I do a lot of work, right at the dining table. I wanted a space that could handle all of that.

BEDROOMThe master bedroom is swathed in a custom hand-painted wallpaper by Gracie. Bed by RH; bedding by Ralph Lauren Home.

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ISABELLE STANISLAS

I discovered French Designer Isabelle Stanislas after reading a article announcing that her company So-An was one of the three designers asked to bid to redecorate Paris’s iconic Élysée Palace, the official residence of the presidents of France since 1873.

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Isabelle’s roots between Morocco, France and Israel have transcended in her mix of work from interior design and architecture to furniture. She is inspired by the permanent balance between the respect of the history and the daring of the modernity. Her first major commissioned job was to reinvent a private mansion at the young age of 22.

Isabelle is truly an inspiration and a designer I will continue to follow throughout my career.

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“To invent is not to question everything: it is to use the light and the space of what already exists and to project them into the present. Heritage is not condemned to live behind the window of the past. If we respect it, if we understand its codes and its values, then we can marry it to modernity without distorting it. After all, the past, the present and the future have always been the three sides of the same scalene “.