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Saturday, 20 September 2008 01:19 |
Check out our photo gallery of well-designed dining areas, and click on the links below to discover dining room tips, secrets and favorites of some of the top designers working today.
José Solís Betancourt was commissioned to renovate the interiors of a 1932 Tudor Revival house in Washington, D.C. Richard Williams Architects collaborated on the project. In the dining room, a tapestry, of Scalamandré silk, with metal-threaded trims was created to unify a collection of Albrecht Dürer engravings. Saint Mary Magdalene Before a Curtain Supported by Angels, circa 1525, is by the Master of the Parrot. Brass chandelier, H. M. Luther. Manuel Canovas chair silk. (April 2008)
Douglas S. Wittels renovated a New York couple’s 4,000-square-foot duplex in a Georgian Revival building on Park Avenue. Wittels’s neutral palette for the dining room gives emphasis to an oil by Robert Kelly. Chandelier, Maison Gerard. Chairs and sconces, Holly Hunt. Dakota Jackson dining table. (January 2008)
Post’s aim was to “respect the apartment’s prewar details” yet imbue the spaces with her elegant brand of modernism. An untitled 2000 oil by Catherine Lynch hangs in the dining room; Post’s goldfish, Atlantic, has called the tabletop home for nearly five years.
Architect Sandy Walker conjured an art-filled, contemporary space out of a traditional San Francisco apartment, while designer Douglas Durkin used texture, overscale furniture and neutral hues to give the interiors depth. In the dining room, as throughout, the furniture’s solidity enhances rather than overpowers the artwork, which includes a 1957 Sam Francis oil and-acrylic painting and a David Smith sculpture. Chuck Ginnever’s maquette for The Three Graces sits atop a table Durkin designed. Holly Hunt chairs and chandelier.
Interior designer Mariette Himes Gomez and architect Oscar Shamamian together handled the conversion of two separate apartments into a single, unified whole for a Manhattan family. From above the dining room’s circa 1825 sideboard, from Lee Calicchio, Ellsworth Kelly’s 18 Colors Cincinnati, 1982, draws the eye past a space-maximizing round table that accommodates eight chairs, each with a Cowtan & Tout fabric. Adorning the windows is a sage drapery fabric from Robert Allen.
“We wanted to retain a certain sense of discretion,” says architect Nick Plewman, who, with interior designer Chris Browne, created an eco-retreat in the Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. For part of the year, the owners, Tara and Jessica Getty, rent the house out as a vacation property. A wall of reclaimed sandstone creates an intimate space for the dining room. (February 2008)
On Nantucket, Massachusetts, a couple commissioned Botticelli & Pohl Architects and interior designer Elissa Cullman to create their seaside retreat. “The dining room,” says Cullman, “with its hand-painted scenic canvas by Chuck Fischer, is the most vibrant room in the house.”
“The space itself was inspirational,” designer Charles Allem says of a penthouse he remade for a Manhattan couple. Walnut doors, fitted with bronze hardware, open to the dining room. Hanging over the expansive walnut table is an 18-foot-long bespoke fixture. Fabricated using 105 sandblasted-glass cylinders of varying heights, it gives off “incredible shades that reflect all over the room,” Allem remarks.
“My client, Terri Henning, needed a comfortable home where she could begin again,” Monique Gibson says of the penthouse she created in the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina. Gibson paneled the dining room to make it “darker and more intimate,” she says. A mid-19th-century Italian chandelier is above the mahogany table. The Banjo Man, 1977, is by Charleston artist John Carroll Doyle. (February 2008)
To meet the needs of his clients—art collectors with an extensive collection of both art and artifacts—architect Eddie Jones designed a trilevel, 30,000-square-foot residence in central Arizona. “I used glass, terrazzo, stainless steel and other reflective materials that would bring light and views of the skyline, mountains and city deep into the house, to create the sensation of floating in space,” explains Jones. In the dining room, Philippe Starck chairs join glass tables of various diameters. Gauzy white curtains hang delicately behind the tables, creating an ethereal partition around the stairwell.
Combining raw, native materials with a modern sensibility, interior designer Mariette Himes Gomez and architect Jim Morter created a singular retreat in Wyoming for Anne and Allen Dick and their children. An English Arts and Crafts leather screen adds texture to the dining area. The chairs, with a Larsen tweed, were designed by Gomez. |
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