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Breaking Tradition
Using a new Holladay home as her canvas, designer Anne-Marie Barton puts a fresh spin on traditional style. BY Brad mee
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Mixed wood finishes, white oak ceiling beams, a Jill Barton painting and a fresh color palette featuring creamy white and grayed turquoise ease the formal leanings of the home’s living room. Opposite: “Molding builds integrity and grounds the space,” says designer Anne-Marie Barton about the home’s grand entry, where chevron-patterned white oak flooring animates the space.
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Niermann Weeks chandeliers hang from the dining room’s beautifully detailed 12-foothigh ceiling. Layered art, china cabinets by Bradshaw Design and the table and chairs by Alexa Hampton for Hickory Chair combine to set the room’s fresh traditional style. Patterned draperies and host chairs add depth and a sense of ease.
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or many, traditional style translates to stuffy rooms, stodgy décors and sit-up-straight rigidity. Bruce and Gayle Larson wanted something fresher and more livable for their Holladay home and turned to designer Anne-Marie Barton to create it. The Larson family had resided in Connecticut for many years before relocating to Salt Lake City where Bruce and Gayle grew up. Enamored with the New England–style architecture and interiors that grace New Canaan, Connecticut, the couple envisioned something similar for their new residence. The fact that Barton had spent her formative years in Connecticut before creating a life and career in Salt Lake City resonated with the Larsons and bolstered their belief that she could successfully meld the two locales into the style of one spectacular home. “My goal was to create the essence of East Coast tradition that the Larsons were accustomed to, yet freshen it with a stronger sense of grandeur and light,” says Barton who steadfastly rejected the small, segmented rooms, red wood tones and delicate molding overkill common to New Canaan homes. “This home’s traditional design is a far cry from what I grew up with,” she says. Barton’s retooling of traditional style starts at the entry where time-honored elements captivate with unexpected twists. Layered and generously scaled moldings and paneling gleam under white paint rather than dark stain. White oak floors anchor the space with a herringbone rather than typical plank pattern and a Niermann Weeks rusted metal chandelier replaces the expected “overthrottled” glass and brass version. Perhaps most noticeable is the absence of a sweeping grand staircase. “Eliminating it allowed us to accentuate the entry’s spaciousness and to open the space to views framed by a 25-foot-high gallery of windows,” Barton says. Flanking the entry on each side, the home’s graciously proportioned living and dining areas also boast twists on
Above Left: Barton teamed with architect Nolen Mendenhall and contractor Ken Keller to create the stately three-level, 14,000-square-foot home. Above: Barton designed the ceiling of Gayle’s office to resemble the pattern of a bulletin board’s crisscrossed ribbons. Left: In the main floor gallery hall, the ceiling detail and hanging lanterns relate to the rhythm of the multiple windows and doors.
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Top Left: Located at one end of the kitchen, the light-filled butler’s pantry is equipped with extra ovens, a large sink, dishwashers and two largescale glass hutches finished in green to match the room’s vintage-toned window frames. Left: The breakfast room is “very New England,” says Barton, who added a mirror to the right side of the space to replicate adjacent windows. Two pullout pantries, hidden in the thickness of the paneled walls, frame the room’s entrance.
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Hickory Chair barstools invite guests to gather in the kitchen, where four antique replica chancellor chandeliers sparkle like jewelry suspended above double islands. Barton added broad beams to break up the white ceiling plane and dressed the backsplash with dimensional Walker Zanger tile. Art by Shanna Kunz.
traditional style. “The rooms mirror one another with similar fireplaces, detailed ceilings and tranquil color tones, yet details including the distinct molding and fireplace designs give each space its own striking charm,” Barton explains. The living room’s bleached white oak coffered ceiling, assorted wood tones and a mix of patterned fabrics foster the room’s easy elegance while a dark antique hutch and a grand piano add a bit of formality. In the dining room, stacked art, a pair of painted-over chandeliers (sans crystals), breezy sheers and tall, light-toned hutches housing loose displays of tableware endow the space with a gracious yet unceremonious ambiance. Above, spectacu-
lar ceiling detail performs like icing on a cake. A triple articulation of rounded and squared shapes adorns the stunningly detailed overhead surface. “I love old plastered ceilings and the way they evoke a formal age-old atmosphere,” says Barton who mimicked the look for this space. Beyond these two rooms, the entry bisects a light-filled, main-floor gallery hall connecting two wings: one housing the woman’s office, powder bath, kitchen and family room, and the other opening to the man’s office and luxurious master suite. “The kitchen is the heart of the home’s hangout zone,” Barton explains. Opening to a light-filled butler’s pantry, spaS umme r 2 0 1 5
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A TWIST ON TRADITION 1. Nickel board paneling and a fun, medium scaled wallpaper dress the powder room. 2. Antique replica chancellor chandeliers bedazzle the kitchen. 3. The patterned fabrics on shapely lounge chairs inspired the living room’s fresh color palette. 4. Thibaut wallcovering and a shapely molding treatment beautifully dress a dining room wall. 5. An antiqueTabriz rug grounds Bruce Larson’s office, where Baker armchairs, draperies made of Kathryn Ireland fabric and built-in walnut cabinetry enrich the handsome room. 6. Anne-Marie Barton, principal of AMB Design 7. Bright light floods the classically styled master bathroom. 8. Wallpaper that runs up to the ceiling, an upholstered built-in bench and tile flooring that resembles wood planks join to make the laundry room a comfortable, engaging space.
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cious family room and a breakfast room crowned with a peaked white oak–clad ceiling, the large kitchen is anchored by double islands. The center island performs as a single-level food prep surface while the outside two-level island accommodates bar-height seating. “I love sitting in a barstool,” Barton says. “It’s more festive, and bar-height counters work better in highceilinged rooms.” A dimensional tile backsplash, Calcutta Gold countertops, painted cabinetry and four dazzling antique replica chancellor chandeliers invite special notice while endowing the kitchen with an ultra-chic yet classic style. In the home’s private wing, a series of arched doorways overlooking manicured gardens inspired the master suite’s design. Barton deeply inset the doors in thick walls to foster the home’s architectural integrity and balanced them with a generously scaled paneled fireplace, a peaked beamed ceiling and large furnishings. In the charming vestibule leading to the master bathroom, Barton chose wallpaper and vertical molding to dress the walls while adorning the ceiling with paper-inset molding and an antique chandelier that sparkles between a transom window and mirror. Throughout the home, Barton embraced the timelessness of traditional style while rejecting rigid rules that can make it a prisoner of predictable period design. “Breaking rules is part of moving the traditional forward,” she explains. In this home, her era-free execution of the style proves that traditional can be as compelling and comfortable as any other style, past or present. USD
Above: In the master bedroom, draperies in Schumacher fabric frame a trio of arched double doors. Large-scale pieces—a Baker bed and Bliss Studio chests performing as bedside tables—ideally suit the expansive space. Left: An antique chandelier hangs above a Lillian August chest in a vestibule dressed with Thibaut wallcovering on the ceiling and walls.
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