Saint Germain
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Private Residential
When you’re designing in a historic house, you have to pick your battles.
You don’t need every piece to be a hero; everything should work together. This classic home in Dallas’s Highland Park hadn’t been renovated since the 1990s when my art collector client purchased it and asked me to redesign the interior with his beloved works. It was obvious which should be the stars of each gallery-like room.
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Jasper Johns Artwork
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Sean Scully
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Jasper Johns Artwork
Sean Scully
Because of the architecture’s boomerang shape, there are two locations where visitors enter and bothneeded standout art. In the hexagonal formal entrance, a painting of Jackie O. by Andy Warhol hangs ona black wall over the mirrored aluminum console by Marc Newson. It sets the tone for the whole housewhere reflective chrome is used as a neutral. Next door is the dining room where subtle Pucci chairs floataround a glass Liquid Glacial table by late architect Zaha Hadid. We took the moldings off the ceiling andwalls to lessen visual distractions. The study on the front of the house is clad in historic pecan paneling.Overlooking Holland Park, it's really beautiful space, whose wood we contrasted with a Yves Klein bluecoffee table, lightweight seating, and a metal desk.
In the other, portico entrance, an orange mohair runner leads you upstairs to a Texas orange bar hungwith photographs like an exhibition. Lacquering the decorative banister black helped the transitional roomkeep its modern sensibility. A livable home for this client was one that also felt light.
“If art doesn’t shift the rooms pulse, it’s just decoration”
Chad Dorsey
