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The Peacock Room Whistler’s master mural is reimagined as ruin in an upcoming exhibition at Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

Architectural Poetry Poetry takes concrete form in a modern home designed by Travis Price.

Rare Silver at The Mitchell Gallery On May 15, The Mitchell Gallery offers an eventfilled day exploring the role of silver in the history of Annapolis and the U.S.

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Publishers’ Letter

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Robert’s Picks

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Other Worlds: The Taj Lake Palace

On the Cover: This modern home is the work of architect Travis Price.

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Passion Project: A Yacht Named Broadwater

A mega-yacht is up-styled for an Annapolis-area resident.

Publishers’ Letter Often, we get asked, “Kym and Robert, are you worried you will run out of houses to feature?” During AH’s beginnings in 2010, we too, wondered this, and, in fact, were momentarily alarmed. We still get this question! I guess it is fun to ask. It is also fun to respond that there seems to be no end to the wide range of new interior design and architecture in Annapolis and the region. We are happy to give you another issue filled with creative ideas, intriguing homes, and inspiring interior design.

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When is the last time you have visited the National Gallery of Art and taken your family with you? Well, here is a rare exhibition you don’t want to miss. The first major retrospective exhibition of paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo opened at the National Gallery of Art on February 1, 2015, and remain on view through May 3, 2015. Several important paintings underwent conservation treatment before the exhibition, among them the National Gallery’s Visitation altarpiece (c. 1489/1490).

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The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra will present “Gluzman Plays Prokofiev” featuring violinist Vadim Gluzman on March 27 and 28 at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. Buy your tickets today at annapolissymphony.org.

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Lundberg Builders and 314 Design Studios in Stevensville are hosting Wine & Design, Your Home Uncorked, an open house showcasing current trends in home design. Expert designers will include those specializing in landscape, home, interior, kitchen, bath, and lighting. Enjoy fine hors d’oeuvres and meet industry experts. The open house is on Saturday, April 18, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. at 314 Main Street in Stevensville. For more information, visit lundbergbuilders.com.

Robert Haywood, Ph.D., studied art and architectural history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Peacock The Room

At the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution

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Rarely does an entire domestic interior find its way into a fine art museum. So why the Peacock Room, the lavishly designed dinning room conceived by the American expatriate artist James McNeil Whistler, now installed at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art? First, it is among the most extravagant Victorian interior design projects for a private home.

Second, it expands upon the repertoire of the artist Whistler, the highly regarded nineteenthcentury painter of moody landscapes and people. Third, the Peacock Room has a storied history that reveals much about an artist and his patrons.

The room was initially designed by architect Thomas Jeckyll for British shipping magnate Frederick Leyland as a showroom for his blue-and-white Chinese porcelain collection. Jeckyll designed the intricately carved shelving to hold the collection, leaving space above the fireplace to display Whistler’s great painting, Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain.

Jeckyll brought in Whistler as a color consultant, but Whistler’s imagination took off and he created a room he described as a “harmony in blue and gold,” inspired in part by the porcelains’ ornamental designs. With grand vision and ambition, Whistler, between 1876 and 1877, covered every inch of the room in his designs. Except for the greenish-blue walls, the surfaces glimmer with gold and copper leaf. The glorious golden peacocks, inspired by Japanese prints and vases, fill the shutters from floor to ceiling. As one historian notes, “Whistler imagined the Peacock Room as a painting on a grand scale and in three dimensions, a work of art that could be entered through a door.”

In a letter to homeowner Leyland, who was away during Whistler’s venture, the artist promised him a “gorgeous surprise” upon

his return. While breathtaking to most visitors today, patron Leyland was far from happy with the room. Whistler had gone so far to paint over Leyland’s expensive gilt leather wall hangings.

The artist and patron had a falling out with Leyland only paying half of the artist’s bill. Nevertheless, Whistler did have a chance to finish up and add a few more details. Art historians note that the two fighting peacocks on one of the far end walls are an allegory for Leyland’s and Whistler’s own stormy relationship.

After Leyland’s death, American businessman Charles Freer eventually purchased the room and had it disassembled and shipped to the United States, where in 1904 the room was reinstalled in Freer’s home in Detroit. Freer, who made a fortune manufacturing rail cars, devoted an enormous amount of his wealth and time to travel and collecting art. Once Freer reinstalled the room he lined the shelves with his own vases acquired from Egypt, Iran, Japan, China, and Korea, giving the room a worldly character while merging Eastern and Western aesthetics.

Following Freer’s death, the room acquired a third home when it was again disassembled and reinstalled at the Freer Gallery of Art, which Freer himself founded. The most recent installation of the Peacock Room is based on photographs taken in Freer’s Detroit residence. The room not only has the peacock as its subject matter, but also is an artistic tribute to the peacock’s grand strut and intricately designed feathers and luxurious colors.

Linda Merrill, The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography (1988) Lee Glazer, The Peacock Room Comes to America (2012)

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Artist Darren Waterston reinterprets Whistler’s Peacock Room as a resplendent ruin, overburdened by its own excesses.

Opening May 16, 2015

CONTEMPORARY ARTIST DARREN WATERSTON: WHISTLER’S PEACOCK ROOM AS RUIN Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Peacock Room REMIX centers on Filthy Lucre, an immersive interior by painter Darren Waterston.

Waterston reinterprets James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room as a resplendent ruin, an aesthetic space that is overburdened by its own excesses—of materials, history, and creativity.

Waterston writes that he “set out to recreate Whistler’s fabled Peacock Room in a state of decadent demolition—a space collapsing in on itself, heavy with its own excess and tumultuous history. I imagined it as . . . a vision of both discord and beauty, the once-extravagant interior warped, ruptured.”

Darren Waterston graduated in 1988 with a BFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.

Prior to that he studied at the Akademie der Künste and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Germany. Waterston has been exhibiting his paintings, works on paper, and installations in the United States and abroad since the early 1990s.

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Darren Waterston imagines the once-extravagant interior as a vision of discord and beauty.

Below: Artist Darren Waterston reimagining Whistler’s Peacock Room. Visit Whister’s original Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery of Art.

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“Hovering hands holding” is a line of poetry by Travis Price that describes this home’s conception.

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Travis Price is answering questions that most architects haven’t even thought to ask. When he designed a house for Margaret and Terry Lenzner in Washington D.C., he started as he always does. The usual questions about lifestyle, budget and bathrooms and such could wait. First Price needed to create poetry. Not the poetry of balance and proportion, but the poetry of the soul.

The kind of poetry he writes:

Hovering Hands Holding . . .

Collection of Timeless Pieces . . .

Endless Vistas Framed . . .

Price, who is based in Georgetown, creates buildings that are intellectually challenging. More uniquely, his designs are imbued with spirituality and informed by mythology.

The defining design feature of the Lenzner house is the pair of long copper clad walls that embrace it. The walls are like fins, following a long gentle curve in opposing directions each terminating in a razor’s edge. They are graceful and elegant and metaphorical, “hovering hands holding” that, in Price’s words, “embrace the Lenzners and protect what is important to them.”

To the Lenzners that is not just family but also art. They are avid collectors of both painting and sculpture. The high ceilinged living room provides the optimal setting for their large modern abstract oils, bronze statues, and family antiques, a “collection of timeless pieces.”

Price’s handling of the natural light in the Lenzner house is masterful. Even on a deeply overcast day in the midst of our endless winter, natural light fills the house. The front and back walls are glass but sheltered from the direct power of the sun by the extended copper fins. The sidewalls are punctured with narrow horizontal windows, some as high as the ceiling, others hugging the floor. They let light in and provide curated views of the outside world. Clerestory windows on the second floor bring a defused light to the core of the house.

The front and back views provide “endless vistas framed,” another set of pictures for the collection. The living room and the master bedroom above have walls of glass framing the back sculpture garden and the pool, which is perfectly aligned with the geometry of the house. Price cleverly took the concept of an infinity pool and reversed it. The end that would normally disappear faces the house. Instead of vanishing, the pool is elevated atop a short waterfall. Beyond this and above the back tree line is a Gothic tower of the National Cathedral. The front of the house—art studio dining room, kitchen and guest room—enjoys a view of the Rosedale Conservancy, once a farm and now a verdant open space in this urban neighborhood.

“Endless vistas framed” describes Travis Price’s vision for this modern home.

Price is a modernist rooted in mythology. His work is informed by the ancient and the sacred and the need to interpret our stories in volume, space, and line, transparency and opaqueness. His designs are written in a modern language that simultaneously embraces the tools and techniques of a technologically advanced world while never cottoning to homogeneity. In Price’s words he strives for creations of “cultural

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lyricism” presented with “poetic diversity.” Materials—patinated copper, broad expanses of glass, wood and stone—are repeated, but no two buildings are alike. The voice is clearly Price’s and it is never boring or repetitious. His work challenges you to see beyond the surface of the house and to think about the meaning of what lies within.

When you look at the Lenzner house, you don’t see the front door. There are steps up from the street and then a path that follows the long gentle curve of a copper clad wall. Price is engaging in storytelling here, providing us with a bit of mystery and anticipation as the doorway slowly comes into view. The door is surrounded by a two-story glass vestibule, the denouement of the story, a beautiful little space that lets you feel as though you are in the house even before the door opens. The line of the walk is continued by a long “canal” that follows the curve of the house, leading your eye to the back garden. Several pieces of sculpture seem to float on the water and a moongazer statue stands at the end, looking across the back garden, a bit more mystery and drama unfolding.

When you ask Price about the influences on his buildings he doesn’t respond with a list of great modernist architects, but rather the words of Plato, Carl Jung, and other great thinkers, philosophers, and scientists. It comes as no surprise to learn that Price is an alumnus of St. John’s College. Eighteen years ago the college commissioned him to design a renovation of its library.

Architect Travis Price envisioned the home as peaceful, a haven for a “collection of timeless pieces.”

The line and shape of the renovated library at St. John’s College draws from the discoveries of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler.

Behind the library’s brick façade, which remained unchanged, he created a strikingly modern space, a three story atrium bathed in light from a large elliptical skylight and traversed by curved floating staircases. The line and shape of the space directly drew off of the discoveries of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler, the ancient mappings of the universe that are a core part of the freshman curriculum. Annapolis architect Catherine Purple Cherry worked with Price at the time before starting her own firm in Annapolis. Cherry describes Price as someone with a “big vision” who makes “bold moves.”

Margaret Lenzner knew that when they hired Price he would “design the house as a piece of sculpture” and that “he wasn’t going to budge.” The first thing he told them was that he only did original modern design, saying, “I’m not going to take anything off the shelf.” He stayed true to his word. The poem became a house. AH Joni Zimmerman, CKD, CBD Owner and Award Winning Designer

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A Yacht Named Broadwater

By Kymberly Taylor Photography by Billy Black

When life flies out of control and then accelerates, some of us panic. Others drink heavily. And there are those who, at the moment of acceleration, withdraw just enough to remain balanced and solve the problem.

Matthew Voorhees is of the latter ilk. A technology Internet entrepreneur living in Washington, D.C., he possesses great inner calm and a great outer force: A Feadship 165 named Broadwater. The Netherlands-based Feadship Royal Dutch Shipyards, which dates back to 1887, is famed for its finely engineered super-yachts custom designed for creative folks such as Steve Jobs, Malcolm Forbes, and Henry Ford.

Built in 1990, Broadwater can accommodate approximately seven crew and eight to ten guests. Voorhees wanted to update

its twenty-five-year-old interior substantially to insure that it is in the finest condition for cruising the pristine waters of the Exumas, the British Virgin Islands, and exotic locales such as Monaco. When Voorhees is not using Broadwater, it is available for charter.

Conveniently, Voorhees recently built a glass-faced modern European home facing the Magothy River. He also named this home Broadwater. He turned to its architect, Scarlett Breeding, of Alt Breeding Schwarz, for help refitting the floating Broadwater’s main salon. Breeding had conceived all of the considerable casework in his new home so the move made sense.

The custom dining table with a racetrack top and a monolithic base is made of Natural Karelian Birch Burl.

Opposite: The furnishings speak a mild language regarding textures and tones from a monochromatic palette. Accents of color are from the paprika/tomato family.

“It’s a passion project. The boat has an older formal structure, but we wanted to create a transparency inside and outside, like people live today. It was like Grandma’s living room, and we wanted to transform this into a Steve Jobs-like club venue, more like a Hampton’s gentleman’s club,” explains Voorhees.

Miami-based interior designer Patrick Knowles, who guided the overall interior design, wanted to incorporate contemporary elements into the ship’s traditional dark palette and appointments. Originally, the main salon (living room) and dining salon were two individual rooms divided by a bulkhead (wall).

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While Broadwater is anchored, its tender, Intrepid, takes a spin.

A stateroom is artfully appointed in contrasting playful fabrics.

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Broadwater’s devoted crew pause for just a moment to say hello.

Breeding removed the wall and in its place invented a kind of multifunctional “sea-chest.” This had to do many things: define and divide space, safely showcase a fine wine collection, refrigerate, house multimedia, and provide storage for silver and linens. What’s more, Voorhees wanted sparkle and high-design at the same level of perfection as the casework in his home.

“The interior was very traditional. We knew it was headed to a much more current look . . . . Our piece is a departure, a little piece of sculpture that divides the dining room from the main salon. It is the centerpiece between the two,” says Breeding.

Indeed, it is. Facing the dining area is the glass and stainless steel sea chest displaying 250 bottles of fine wine. On its opposite side, facing the living room, a flat screen TV is encased within polished stainless steel and quartered eucalyptus.

Breeding pays homage to nautical tradition yet subverts it. The yacht’s brilliant sheen recalls the old-world method of hand-applying layers of protective oils to protect the wood from the elements. The surrounding surface is covered in an antique mirror laced with a wire mesh in a diamond pattern, materials that ingeniously summon nautical mythologies: Leviathanlike fishing nets, constellations to navigate ocean journeys, diamond treasures.

In fact, recalls Breeding, they debated about materials and whether to use stainless steel, which shows smudges and fingerprints. “That is not a problem. Our crew wears white gloves,” said Voorhees, whose team often adheres to formal yachting protocol. “That made it all right. We chose mirrored stainless, so the piece would feel light. It’s is a wonderful item of pleasure,” Breeding says.

This “item of pleasure” took months of hard work.

Conceiving the casework entailed a flight down to Palm Beach with the president of Premier Cabinetry who studied Broadwater’s precise requirements. They had to engineer a refrigeration system and design the chest in components, so it could be disassembled, carried onto a boat, and then completely put together.

Yet one would not know of this complication, nor of others—the many calculations to account for camber The main salon’s leather blinds can be neatly lifted to ensure sweeping views.

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and tilt, worries about the sheen level of eucalyptus, how to respect form while introducing change.

A balance has been achieved inside Broadwater. Tensions between time periods, space, materials, and personal style are resolved.

And amidst the discipline of precision, polish, and shine, a primal optimism rises. The very spirit of water, of adventure, pervades both Broadwaters. Home and ship co-exist in Voorhees’s world, like two separate equations, the products of beautiful thinking. AH

Kymberly Taylor, editor-in-chief of Annapolis Home, has a BA in Journalism from Boston University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.

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Resources: Alt Breeding Schwarz: absarchitects.com Patrick Knowles Design: patrickknowlesdesigns.com Feadship Royal Dutch Shipyards: Feadship.nl/en

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By Christine Fillat Park Tavern opened this past October as a welcome oasis in Severna Park, an area littered with strip malls and fast food joints. With the successes of the Pratt Street Ale House in Baltimore and the Ale House in Columbia, owners Don Kelly and Justin Dvorkin have brought their fine crafted beer and dining experience to the space formerly known as The Woodfire Grill. Oliver Brewing Company is the house brewery, and they christen their beer with rock and roll names like Draft Punk and Everybody Wants Some (a collaboration with DuClaw Brewery). An impressive thirty taps of craft beer adorn the bar with selections from Colorado, Pennsylvania, Maine, California, Belgium, and England, and the aforementioned home brew. And if that isn’t enough, there is also an extensive selection of beers and ciders in bottles and cans.

Suffice it to say, at Park Tavern they know beer.

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Dark reclaimed wood combined with ample lighting and tiled surfaces create a sophisticated environment. The bar is long and well lit. The dining area is quieter, with lots of tables; it’s far enough away from the bar scene to not be as noisy, but not too far to separate the diners from the general liveliness of the whole scenario.

The menu is huge with two kinds of chicken, two kinds of steak, five salads, three kinds of mussels, and four different flat breads, and mac and cheese.

So what was it that made our visit a problem? We sampled the beer, and it was quite nice to be able to compare four different drafts.

Nothing wrong there.

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Appetizers were good too, for the most part. Buffalo Oysters were plump and the sauces were nicely spicy. Crab Dip Fritters were pleasantly crunchy on the outside and creamy on the inside, although there was more cream than crab. Herb and Cheese Flatbread was fine, with mounds of fresh ricotta and other cheeses, and a mild hint of garlic. The Blackened Fish Tacos unfortunately disappointed, with that flavor that fish gets when it isn’t fresh.

The main trouble came with the entrées. Everything we ordered had an issue. On a previous visit to Park Tavern, the Thai Green Curry Mussels arrived to the table cold and undercooked.

So we decided to try them again, to see if perhaps the kitchen had just had an off night. Once again, the mussels arrived to our table in a beautifully huge mound, and completely cold.

The mussels were sent back to the kitchen and reheated. When they returned to the table, they were certainly hot, but small and shriveled. All of the joy had been cooked out of them.

A friend had recommended the Double Cut Pork Chop, and on a previous visit, my husband ordered it and had a beautiful thick chop. The pork chop I was served was extremely fatty, like an inferior cut of meat. Since the pork had been brined for 24 hours, the brining flavor overwhelmed the overall taste of the chop.

The Roasted Half Chicken was delivered with thick charred burn marks. It was served with roasted root vegetables in chicken jus that had the same flavor as the brined pork chop. The similarity of these flavors made the dish taste flat. The vegetables did not shine on their own, as they would have had they not been swimming in a pool of the meat cooking juices.

Whoever dressed the Petite Local Greens Salad used a heavy hand because the greens were slick with vinaigrette.

An apple turnover enclosed a gooey mincing of diced apples. A chocolate pudding was pleasant enough, but rather ordinary, reminiscent of boxed pudding, and not made with quality chocolate. Worse, a spoon that came with the pudding was not clean.

Our visit was on a Wednesday night. It was not too busy, but there seemed to be some disconnect between the waiter who took our order, and the servers who brought our food.

My companion termed the service “chaotic.”

5 = truly memorable | 2.5 = needs improvement | 1 = forgettable

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