A GOLD AND SILVER INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT BY JESSICA GERSTEN
HOME OF A NEW YORK-BASED JEWELLERY DESIGNER AND CURATOR, THIS INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECT IS A CONSTRUCTION OF WHITE, MINIMALIST ARCHITECTURE. THE DESIGNER BEHIND THE PROJECT, JESSICA GERSTEN, WANTED TO CREATE A STRONG SENSE OF EARTHINESS AND CONNECTION TO NATURE WITH NATURAL ELEMENTS OF METAL AND STONE, CONTRASTED WITH GOLD AND SILVER, WHICH IS A REFLECTION OF THE CLIENT’S IDENTITY. THE RESULT IS A LUXURY HOME GROUNDED IN EARTH WHILE INSPIRING AN ELEGANT “ZEN” SENSIBILITY. In Tenafly, New Jersey, those natural elements form the basis for an interior design project that is luxurious yet inviting, dominated by a warm, neutral palette. “We wanted a strong sense of earthiness in the home,” says interior designer Jessica Gersten, noting the contrast to the newly built structure’s white, minimalist shell. “We wanted there to be a connection to nature. There is a little bit in every single room.” It was one mandate of the designer clients: Danielle Gregory, a designer and curator of jewellery collections for private clients, and her husband, Troy Gregory. Further inspiration for the exclusive design came from the Amangiri resort in the Utah deserta commanding arrangement of geometric concrete
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planes that artfully play off the region’s rugged beauty, decorated with items in natural materials, hues and textures. This may seem an unlikely influence for a project in suburban New Jersey, but for the Gregorys, the resort’s organic principles and monumental scale created a sense of serenity they aimed to replicate. In this interior design project that sensibility can be seen in the bright family room, where caterpillarlike Togo sofas by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset are covered in a charcoal and white fabric from Donghia that gives the appearance of stone- an allusion that’s mirrored in the mineral pattern of the custom Tibetano rug. The connection to nature is enhanced via a link to the outdoors through a limestone-clad loggia, which can be enclosed with mesh screens and heated for indoor-outdoor living in the fall. In the modern living room, striped Armani Casa wallpaper gives the feeling, Gersten notes, of being “in a clamshell.” The split Minotti Hamilton sectionals and Mushroom City drum tables of varying heights and diameters, in a combination of brass and blackened-pewter finishes, are strewn about in a way that activates the space for a dynamic, loungelike effect. For the New York-based interior designer, the Tenafly home was a chance to dig in on a large, groundup residence-by architect Anthony Minichetti and
