New York Townhouse Interior By Nate Berkus

So apparently everyone loves stripes. The post below this one. It's a hard act to follow, so I'll just keep it simple and go with a townhouse project I like very much. It's Katie Lee Joel's townhouse designed by Nate Berkus. It's the other historicity project I had promised to post along side Thomas O'Brien's apartment, a few posts down. Obviously there is a latent sense of history and historically inspired moments at play in this project. The gold boudoir or dressing room, the antique fixtures in the bathroom including a chandelier, french chairs in the kitchen, the Roman bust by the bed, a living room parlor complete with it's own small beautiful artifacts. But the project is selective in it's moments of the antique. They are carefully composed, arranged, and focused in a modern manner. And it's this duality of historical object and contemporary arrangement that I love looking for in the images. I'm starting with the dressing room because I love it. It's like a jewelry box within itself.

Thomas-Michael

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Home Interior Design, Katie Lee Joel's Nate Berkus Designed New York Townhouse, From Town And Country.

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Home Interior Design, Katie Lee Joel's Nate Berkus Designed New York Townhouse, From Town And Country.

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Home Interior Design, Katie Lee Joel's Nate Berkus Designed New York Townhouse, From Town And Country.

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Home Interior Design, Katie Lee Joel's Nate Berkus Designed New York Townhouse, From Town And Country.

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Home Interior Design, Katie Lee Joel's Nate Berkus Designed New York Townhouse, From Town And Country.

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Home Interior Design, Katie Lee Joel's Nate Berkus Designed New York Townhouse, From Town And Country.

Stripes

The short story is that I was at a lunch yesterday. A woman there was wearing a technicolor striped dress.

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Stripes. Two of my favorite striped patterns.

Stripes. Some stripes in architecture.

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Stripes. Some stripes in retail store design and visual merchandising at Kate Spade.

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Stripes. Some stripes in home interior design from Elle Decor.

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Stripes. Some stripes in home interior design from Elle Decor.

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Stripes. Some stripes in home interior design from Elle Decor.

Stripes. Stripes on the ceiling, stripes on the floor.

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Stripes. And some striped furniture to compliment.

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Stripes. How about some striped sheets from Ikea.

Stripes. There's also stripes in contemporary art.

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Stripes. And stripes in fashion from Fendi and Versace, Spring Summer 2011 collections.

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Stripes. And lastly. Nothing, but stripes. From the Versace Spring Summer 2011 ad campaign.

Fashion And Interior Design: Datums

The below two images are each excessively powerful and could have each been a post in themselves. The top image an interior by Sylvia Heisel. It's tape. This is an incredible fact just in itself. The bottom is Valentino. Photographed very beautifully. I paired them because they each represent the introduction of a secondary framework, matrix, or grid to their respective objects. One an interior. One a dress. I'm calling this a datum, or an abstract structure.

An interior is typically structured as floor, wall, and ceiling. But this interior changes that entirely by introducing a new datum or matrix like pattern which makes no differentiation between floor, wall, or ceiling. In fact I love how some of the lines are continuing around edges and corners. It's all over. Something like a Jackson Pollock. And in this sense, it creates a new datum by which we understand or take on a new understanding of the interior. Somehow you can't see floor, wall, and ceiling relationship anymore, can you. The same goes for the Valentino. It's an explicit introduction of a secondary geometrical structure, a tensile grid. Which is different from the body, the fabric, gravity. It redefines the the dress in terms of itself and thus frees it from it's traditional constraints. I love how above the waist the grid fits the body so carefully. Like a contour map of it. And then how it is allowed to become something new, different, and redefined within itself as it drifts down.

Thomas-Michael

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Fashion And Interior Design, Datums, Sylvia Heisel.

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Fashion And Interior Design, Datums, Valentino.