Home Remodelling & Renovation

None of it is too old, none of it is too new, but there's a comfort and a soul to the
arrangement."
Marry antiques with playful touches
"This rooms speaks to the idea that you can take an antique Italian cabinet and pair it with
an Van Der Straeten lamp—that you can have those two worlds in the same room. You
shouldn't be afraid to do that; it looks good and intentional," Maine advises. "The lamp is
playful but still elegant and beautiful, and it takes the seriousness out of the room.”
Go for a pull-out faucet
True to his aesthetic, David Mann of MR Architecture + Decor loves the simple, upscale look
of this modern room. “This kitchen is about the sleek lines and the finish," he says. "The
faucet is a pull out—when you group functions like that together, it makes it even sleeker.”
Add drama with small details
“We selected the Van Der Straeten tables to add a layer of character: The scale was exactly
right, but also, because of the thorns on the table legs, it added character to the room with
everything else being so streamlined," Mann explains. "The space needed that.”
Accessorize your ceiling
Designing a home is a team effort, Mann says. "Lindsey Adelman’s work is absolutely
extraordinary. One of the things that I love about working with her is that she personally
ensures the piece we are putting in a room is like jewelry—she works on the scale with us
and the quantity of the fixture heads so it really becomes the art of the room, as seen here.”
Merge different aesthetics
“Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is my idol and all things, in my brain, go back to him," Mann
raves. "We were doing an apartment in a Stern building which had classical architecture,
and we were bridging two design sensibilities. So in my mind, bringing this particular chaise
in related right back to our own aesthetic, which kept it clean and simple. It also added a
little bit of style.”
Add warmth through handmade pieces
“This was a new-build home that was kind of cold, so I needed to warm up the space and
give it that California modernism," begins Peter Dunham of Peter Dunham Design. "I
brought in a lot of organic, handmade things to warm up the space—like the handwoven
curtains, the big wicker chaise, and the Nakashima-style table. The interplay of textures is
also important to make the space interesting. The biggest thing to me was bringing in
warmth in a modern vocabulary.”