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FRESHPICKS
from Array Magazine
THE MOST CURRENT PRODUCTS IN 200 LEX SHOWROOMS.
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Facial Feature
For Portrait of a Lady, the artist was infl uenced by celebrated portraitists of the early 20th century. The hand painting has many textural elements that enhance the features of her face. Natural canvas, framed in a light, French oak fl oat. Made to order in Southern California. Leftbank Art, Suite #609, 646-293-6694, leftbankart.com
Viva Italia
This vintage Franco Albini for Poggi Rocking Chaise has a walnut frame and canvas seating tied with rope and red upholstered fabric with leather details. A 1956 design from Italy, it is now available at the Gallery at 200 Lex. Gallery at 200 Lex, 10th Floor, 646-293-6633, email antiques@nydc.com
Built In, Not Boxed In
Collector’s Series Shelving from Amuneal is versatile and adaptable, even in unique spaces. Cabinetry is available in a range of wood species and lining finishes, while the metal clad drawer faces are available in any of Amuneal’s 400+ patinated finishes on a variety of metals. Amuneal, Suite #1314, 215-516-5020, amuneal.com
Iron Men
The Hero Sculptures from Global Views are whimsical figures created from cast iron with brass geometric heads. The exaggerated texture of the body juxtaposed with the smoothness of the head makes each one a perfect conversation piece. Global Views, Suite #612, 212-725-8439, globalviews.com
Bang the Drums
The modern Dante 2 Light Fixture at Profiles is made of grey steel, available with either black or brass trim. Made in California by Downtown LA. PROFILES, Suite #1211, 212-689-6903, profilesny.com
Cooler Chest
Sherrill Furniture Company announces a new color addition to the best-selling Essex Chest. This show-stopping piece features reverse painted glass in a luxe white finish with contrasting gold hardware and frame. Also available in blue painted glass. Made in North Carolina. Sherrill Furniture Company, Suite #808, 212-464-7060, sherrilldesigncenter.com
Light Meal
Dennis & Leen presents Giardino Bianca, a modern, clean approach to a permanent fruit bowl. This 11-piece set is finished in cloud white, for an everlasting temptation. Dennis & Leen, Suite #903, 212-706-9030, dennisandleen.com
Look at You
Take an extra look at the Malaga Mirror from Formations and notice the details of this antique restoration, with curved edges and convex designs in a hand-painted finish. This piece is available as part of their Quickship program. Formations, Suite #903, 212-706-9030, formationsusa.com
Cloud Cover
The Pastel Rug, from Odegard Carpets, is a hand-woven, hand-knotted, Indian silk and wool combination. The design was influenced by natural aerial formations. Custom colors and sizes are available. Odegard Carpets, Suite #1209, 212-545-0205, odegardcarpets.com
Movable Feast
The Davids Collection from The Bright Group is a modular series that is movable and interchangeable to allow for versatility in layout and spatial design. Designed by Douglas Levine and manufactured in New York. The Bright Group, Suite #902, 212-726-9030, thebrightgroup.com
And the Winner is…
The Benjamin Moore Color of the Year 2021 Aegean Teal 213640 – an intriguing blue-green that creates natural harmony and invites us to reflect and reset. Rooted in the elegant, handspun textures of the home, the Color Trends 2021 palette comforts as it uplifts. Benjamin Moore, Suite #814, 646-293-6626, benjaminmoore.com
Lattice Alone
Carefully shaped and woven by McGuire craftsmen, the Lattice Chaise is laid back and comfortable. Its frame holds a decorative, woven rattan seat and a quilted, draped cushion. The inaugural Kara Mann for McGuire Collection represents the best of vintage design, reimagined for modern life. McGuire Furniture, Suite #300, 212-689-1565, mcguirefurniture.com
Fashion Models
The Runway Bench from Baker Furniture’s Luxe Collection is a sculptural piece with the effervescent energy of the catwalk. Its row of bolster upholstery sits atop a solid bronze platform. The collection is an authentic, fashion-forward assortment imbued with an eclectic mix of 1970s modern, and infused with unique jewelry-like silhouettes. Baker Furniture, Suite #300, 212-779-8810, bakerfurniture.com
INTERNATIONAL FLAIR
LONDON-BASED FIONA BARRATT-CAMPBELL SETS UP SHOP ON US SHORES
It’s often said that success is a mixture of talent and luck. For British interior designer Fiona Barratt-Campbell, you can also add destiny to the list.
“I was surrounded by design growing up, and every time we moved it would be a new design project. Two years later we would be on to something diff erent. It was great to go on that journey as a child,” says Barratt-Campbell. “My grandfather (Sir Lawrie Barratt, founder of Barratt Homes and one of the largest housebuilders in the United Kingdom) was a huge infl uence on me. He was a mentor who taught me the business side of things. I also got my very strong independent character from him.”
Clockwise from top left:
A pair of 1950s Swedish chairs owned by the designer’s grandfather flank the bookcases in this attractive study.
The master bedroom features a pair of “shaggy chairs” and a pop-up television cabinet composed of sycamore veneer and 24 karat gessoes.
Barratt-Campbell created a warm and welcoming wine cellar and sourced local materials and tiled the walls with cork, noting “It is very cool and inexpensive, and you don’t have to spend a fortune on everything that goes into a room.”
International artifacts and a unique mixture of materials make a bold statement in the hallway. The Teres Bench is from the designers own collection FBC London. Piqued by an interest of design and architecture, she studied at both London’s Chelsea College of Art and Parsons School of Design in New York, receiving the best of global education. “Chelsea College of Art was more conceptual and architectural, but they really didn’t teach you useful things to take to the workplace,” she details. “Parsons was the very vocational side of my studies, and it was really fantastic as both represented very different schools of thought.”
The multi-faceted designer is known for her sophisticated interiors, a blend of globally minded materials, and timeless, elegant furniture often set against a neutral color palette. “There is a very strong accent to the work we do and it’s a reflection of my personality. My design is not stuffy,” she notes. BarrattCampbell’s first big design break came when she designed a ski chalet for mega-entrepreneur Richard Branson. Named to Wallpaper Magazine’s Top Twenty and House and Garden’s Top 100 designer lists, she and her staff of twelve work on ski chalets, villas, summer homes, and townhouses worldwide from Hong Kong and Moscow to Mallorca and Switzerland since the firm’s inception in 2006.
Perhaps one of her biggest launches occurred this past year with the opening of FBC London at the New York Design Center, a showroom which shares its space with Rosemary Hallgarten. A favorite haunt for British designers (the showroom recently moved to London’s Pimlico Road); her furniture line grew out of the many custom pieces she designed for clients.
At the urging of her husband, she created 32 pieces for the first launch.
“My husband said, ‘how hard can it be?’ so off we went,” says the designer. “It’s one thing making an item once, but when you have to do it repeatedly for the same price and with the same quality, it’s really hard, involved work. We spent seven months in and out of all of our workshops, and I think we have a very unique, beautiful, and strong collection. There is a freedom in designing a piece of furniture and putting it out there. You never know who is going to buy it.”
Drawing upon her upbringing near the terrain of Northumberland, England and its neighboring World Heritage sites, Barratt-Campbell’s furniture, lighting, and accessory line reflect her love of Ancient Rome: particularly artifacts, archaeology, and architecture.
The designer incorporates her personal design credo of mixing heritage with local materials and antiques, as evidenced at her home in Chelsea’s historic Cheyne Walk. “I love the thread of antiques whether it’s Regency, Georgian, or Mid-Century modern pieces. When you are designing, it’s a nice thread that ties in heritage with a sense of belonging and adds a provenance to the story.”
Noting it’s hard to be your own designer, Barratt-Campbell details, “I wouldn’t say it’s an easy process, and you don’t approach it like you would a client’s house. I find it takes longer to design a room, as I find a piece of furniture I love and six months later decide to put it in a room, and it then becomes the starting point.” Barratt-Campbell and her husband have been collecting art for over fifteen years. “We like mixed media and photography and have never bought a piece of art for a room. Our collection has moved around with us from a big Georgian country house in Northern England to Cheyne Walk and to an Edwardian house in the countryside west of London. What is wonderful about art is it can fit anywhere in any environment.”
Barratt-Campbell kept the main palette of her home neutral to showcase the art, and layered the rooms with
Fiona Barratt-Campbell fabrics and her ceramics collection to add texture to the interiors. Her love of a wide range of materials is evident, as witnessed by antique copper verdigris, Namibian white marble, bronze and grey ash in the kitchen, textured plaster on the master bedroom walls, shimmering silk covered walls in the living room, and cork tiled walls in the wine cellar. And in a fitting tribute to her grandfather, the room features a pair of his Swedish armchairs dating back to the 1950s.
She also added the title of author to her resume last year with the publication of her first book Elemental (Rizzoli). Showcasing her signature style of “simplicity meets opulence,” the illustrated tome is also a master class in interior design. Her grandfather would no doubt be proud.
Top left: Namibian marble, antique copper verdigris and grey ash are just a few of the exotic materials used in the designer’s kitchen.
Top right: Barratt-Campbell’s living room in Cheyne Walk represents her love of design sensibilities – rooms filled with texture, unique materials, and glamour set against a neutral palette.
Housestead Console Table Vitrum Mirror
Aurora Coff ee Table Fiona Side Chair, Outdoor
Armour Media Unit
Antibes Chaise Lounge, Outdoor Edesia Carver
Evolution Side Table, Bronze
ODE TO JOY
JOY MOYLER’S MAGICAL MIX
Left: Dining vignette for the Raevo Golf & Country club in Moscow.
Top right: The designer looked to her former roots at Ralph Lauren for the club’s Americana look.
Bottom right: Contemporary lighting mixes with traditional caramel leather upholstery for the dining areas. I t’s rare to see the project of an interior designer and not know who created the room. A trademark color scheme, a recurring chair, a favorite fabric, or perhaps a quirky accessory always gives a clue. In the case of interior designer Joy Moyler, like a snowflake, no two designs are the same.
Left: Moyler created a tranquil respite for singer John Mayer’s ranch in Montana.
Middle: The hanging textile is a centuries-old kimono from Mayer’s collection.
Right: Furnishings from Ralph Lauren (as shown here) and Aero Studios were used for décor of the Mayer ranch.
Photos by Nick Carter/Verasson Creative Services.
“People say they can’t look at my projects and immediately know if I did it. To me, it’s a blessing to do something new, and that is what my clients pay me for. They are in a very small world where they know one another and have multiple residences. I work on a lot of referrals, and the one thing you don’t want is a client to go to someone’s house and see the exact same thing.”
Moyler’s design philosophy clearly works – just ask her celebrity clients Leo DiCaprio, Adrien Brody, music and film producer David Geffen, and singer John Mayer. A self-professed modernist, she describes herself as a classical designer with a modern heart. “I love the tension between the two; it’s like water that flows between rocks, it finds its way and if you are a designer that is what you do. If you’re copying something and stuck in a groove, that is what you do. The interesting part is creating it yourself.” Influenced at an early age by the classical architecture of her native Manhattan, the designer spent her childhood wandering the neighborhoods on the weekends with her parents. There, she fell in love with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A trip to Spain as a young girl also introduced her to the colors, light, flavors, and culture, which proved to be influential as well. As an adult, her studies at the New York Institute of Architecture preceded her thirty-year career, which included jobs at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Ralph Lauren, John Saladino, Thierry Despont, and head designer of Giorgio Armani Interior Design Studio.
While Joy Moyler Interiors is based in New Rochelle, New York, her projects span from California and England to Italy and France. Primarily working remotely with a staff who work on three projects a year (many take from two to five years), balancing and organization is paramount.
International interior designer Joy Moyler
One of her more unique global projects was a golf resort in Russia – two things you don’t often read in the same sentence. Working with architect Greg Tuck who was a colleague during her days at Ralph Lauren, the pair designed the Raevo Golf Resort and Country Club, which was purely Americana in style. Located just outside Moscow, the private club featured a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course, a wellappointed clubhouse with a full-service restaurant, lounge,
Left: The beauty of the designer’s various projects is the fact that no two are alike. Shown here is the sky library in Central Park South's Hampshire House.
Middle: Moyler also honed her design skills with luminaries Thierry Despont, Giorgio Armani Interior Design Studio, and John Saladino. Shown here is a residence in Manhattan.
Right: Artwork provides a bold focal point in a Westchester, New York residence.
Photo by Nick Carter/Verasson Creative Services.
Bottom right: Inspired by the Beresford in New York, her new line of dinnerware is available on her site, joymoyleratelier.com. spa, wine cellar, office suites, swimming pool, and entertainment areas including a snooker room. “The client loves the [Ralph Lauren] lifestyle and were drawn to the heritage, lineage, and culture. They adore and just eat it up,” Moyler says. Built from the ground up, the project took five years to complete, and the designer notes she has some 300 pages of specs and CAD drawings. The Russians chose to design the majority of the furnishings themselves, right down to chiseling the fireplace mantles. “This was all done in English and had to be translated into Russian for the contractors. We were constantly doing conversions on everything.”
Deadline-oriented, Moylar takes her full-service work to the next level. Such was the case when she received a call from client John Mayer who called to say he was returning three weeks early from a tour. Working on his unfinished ranch house in Montana, she advised everything would be ready for his arrival, but it would be temporary. Sourcing furnishings from Aero Studios and Ralph Lauren, she set up a speaker system for his music and a working kitchen. “He was very surprised we could do that in such short order,” she reflects.
And while more travel is in her future with the designs of an English country house, a flat in Paris’ Hotel Plaza Athénée, and a seaside villa in Portofino, Italy, the multi-disciplined designer is also rolling out plans for a private label dinnerware collection. “Tabletop is something I have always loved, and we will see where it leads!”
GL BAL SEARCH
ALL ROADS LEAD TO 200 LEX
USA UK Germany Belgium
France
Italy
Spain
Andreu World andreuworld.com
Mexico & Latin America
Luteca luteca.com
One mark of a well-designed home is that it feels worldly. Perhaps it’s in the all-embracing feel of a room, or its carefully curated pieces that are reminiscent of memorable travels or cultures that fascinate.
These fi ve designers put the world at your fi ngertips, through European decorative arts, Brazilian modernism, Tibetan weaving, Belgian tranquility, and more. They also keep the world in mind with their sustainable practices.
Brazil
Roberta Schilling rscollection.com
Sossego
sossegodesign.com
Castrads castrads.com FBC London fbc-london.com Julian Chichester us.julianchichester.com Timothy Oulton timothyoulton.com
Markilux markilux.com
Fromental
fromental.co.uk
Cosulich Interiors & Antiques cosulichinteriors.com Fermob fermob.com Kifu Paris kifuparis.com J.D. Staron (work with makers in France and Nepal) jdstaron.com
Milano Smart Living milanosmartliving.com
Nepal
India Odegard Carpets odegardcarpets.com
Japan Okamura okamura.com
Philippines
Kenneth Cobonpue kennethcobonpue.com
Verellen
verellen.biz
Renaissance Carpet & Tapestries renaissancecarpet.com (work with artists all over Europe and Asia)
Ngala Trading Co.
ngalatrading.com
Australia
Harbour Outdoor harbouroutdoor.com
The Rug Company
therugcompany.com
Based in London, Fromental is dedicated to creating handpainted and hand-embroidered silk wallcoverings. Their elaborate creations hearken back to centuries-old ornamentation and craftmanship. “We strive to create timeless decorative arts,” says Lizzie Deshayes, who founded the company, along with Tim Butcher, in 2005. The company strives for sustainability: wallcoverings are made-to-order, so there’s minimal waste, and they can be removed and customized for reuse. Fromental is a fully global operation, from its painters and embroiderers in China, to its design studio in London, to its offi ces around the world. Its fl agship showroom opens in the NYDC this spring.
Products from Wuxi, China
Ngala Trading Co.
Founded in 2016, Ngala Trading Co. specializes in bringing African designed and manufactured luxury lighting, and curated home décor to the U.S. with Ghanaian glass beads, basket lamps from the Buhera region of Zimbabwe, and the like. Lawson Ricketts, co-founder and creative director, says he “fell in love with Africa” and wanted to see the continent’s artistic traditions have a wider reach. “Every piece has a story and an artisan’s name,” he says. “There are many imitations of African crafts, but our pieces are authentically made by true craftsmen.” The company makes sure artisans are paid a living wage, and that any animal products used are sourced ethically.
Sossego
In Portuguese, sossego translates as “peace,” but according to Jonathan Durling, founder and CEO of Sossego, the word has an even deeper meaning. “It’s a uniquely Brazilian way of life, of easygoing warmth,” he says. The company’s mission is to share that way of life with the world through modern furniture and lighting from three of Brazil’s top designers: Aristeu Pires, Domingos Tótora, and Guilherme Wentz. “Brazil is a melting pot of nationalities, tribes and cultures, so, it’s only fi tting that each of our designers has a unique perspective,” Durling says. The company uses sustainably harvested woods and, for its Domingos Tótora collection, recycled cardboard.
Products from Brazil
The Rug Company
Products from Nepal
Hand-knotted carpets from The Rug Company aim to “combine forward-thinking design with ancient techniques,” says CEO James Seuss. The company commissions designs from renowned artists—Dale Chihuly is one example—and then the rugs are made by artisans in Nepal, who are experts in the age-old art of Tibetan weaving. One of the largest importers of rugs from Nepal, the company is proud to provide sustainable employment to many Nepalese. Nearly all of the carpets are made of wool, or a combination of wool and silk, which are among the most environmentally friendly and sustainable fi bers, according to Seuss.
This two-decades-old furniture brand, founded by Tom and Sabine Verellen, takes its cues from their hometown of Antwerp, Belgium. The company’s pieces, featuring neutral hues and natural materia ls, exude an easygoing elegance that’s quintessentially Belgian. The Verellens imported this aesthetic to High Point, North Carolina, where the company is headquartered. Sustainability is a signifi cant focus: Verellen uses postconsumer recycled metal coils, water-based glues and dye, and ethically sourced fabrics. Ultimately, the design itself should be sustainable, according to Tom Verellen: “Our goal is to create heirloom pieces that will last for generations.”
Products from Antwerp, Belgium
