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Arthur and Nina Zwebell’s LA Buildings

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Apartment Therapy Hall of Fame

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LustList >> Wrapped Up in a Book(shelf) – Pt. II

Part I here.

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It all started with this kitchen…

I love this kitchen.  That sink is what got me first, and then the perfect paint color, marble counter, and molding detail as the backsplash. 

So then I looked up the firm who did it, Roman and Williams, and based on this kitchen, you’d never guess the other stuff they’ve done. 

First, the Ace Hotel in New York! 

 

And the ultra-cool Breslin Bar & Dining Room…

Don’t worry, I’m going to post the rest of their portfolio soon.  Lots more looks to come.  I devoured the whole thing…

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Heraldry, Weaponry, and Hunting Prizes

Meant to include this one in the post on enormous fireplaces… this one looks normal at first glance, as  proportional to the wall, until you look closer and see the chairs as proportional to the wall and realize the ceiling height is insane.  Love the wall decor of “heraldry, weaponry, and hunting prizes.”

Since I forgot to post this with the fireplaces, I’ll go ahead and throw in a few other images from the house, they’re all pretty unreal.

The home of Lady Dufferin, of the Guinness family, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, in Northern Ireland.

From W Magazine (including quote at top)

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Gjelina

I’ve started to see this look a lot, but I still love it.  It’s a sort of an industrial meets apothecary-chic look, with chairs with wood seats and metal bases, Edison bulbs, grain sack cloth, raw wood planking, etc. The most recent example of it here….

Today, a friend in LA took me to this super cool restaurant Gjelina in Abbot Kinney in LA.  Gjelina aside for a minute, Abbot Kinney is such a cool neighborhood!!  I seriously loved it.  As soon as we entered the neighborhood, I saw a Steven Alan store, and I knew I was home.

Ok, back to Gjelina.  LOVED: the wood planking on the ceiling, the brick floor inside, the big light fixture with all different shapes and sizes of Edison bulbs, the paint color (dark grey but with brown in it, and very matte, like a chalkbooard), the light mint green industrial stools, and the different sized glass-front cabinets that make up the bar-back.

This isn’t visible at all in the photos, but possibly my favorite detail was about an 18″ tall border around the top of the wall of antique mirror set on top of a cornice that wrapped all the way around the room.  It totally kept the very tall walls from becoming vast and boring, because your eye was drawn straight up to it, and then to the pretty ceiling.

Also you can’t see this in the photo either, but the big high tables have handles (like cabinet hardware handles) on the ends, and for some reason that detail totally delighted me.

And, as if the decor weren’t pleasing enough, the food was soo good.. not any one particular style of cuisine, just good ingredients turned into wonderful things.  We had roasted beets with burrata that tasted like ice cream, roasted sunchokes with parsely pesto, and a gruyere, caramelized onion, and arugula pizza.

I hiighly recommend it!!!
Restaurant website here.

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THE Zach

When I was interning for Miles Redd, there was another intern on the days when I wasn’t there, and all I knew about him was that his name was Zach and that he was really funny and endearing, by the way David, Amanda, Nick, and Miles spoke of him.

Then I stumble upon this cool teeny tiny studio in the New York Times, start reading the article, and discover that it is the apartment of THE ZACH.  The mysterious-other-intern-Zach.  !!!!!!

Love the bar tray, love the stacks of books.

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Nancy Meyers, I will love anything you do.

HOW did it take me this long to post the house from It’s Complicated.  I don’t know.  I actually sat in the movie thinking, “I can’t wait to go home and google the stills from the set!”*  and then somehow I totally let it slip.  Inexcusable.

So, to make up for the delay, I’ll do a massive post and even include pics from Meyers’ previous movies…

More after the jump
*(#whenyouknowyou’reanerd)

For the unitiated, Meyers is the writer and director of Something’s Gotta Give, Father of the Bride, and The Holiday in addition to It’s Complicated… essentially she is the doyenne of the thinking girl’s romantic comedy featuring older actors and great houses.  …or maybe she’s just created her on niche.  Either way, she’s great.

All of the houses for those films were also designed by the same production designer, Jon Hutman, and the last two have also had the same set decorator – Beth Rubino.  Below, a brief detour into her past films.

Above, the Father of the Bride house.  I actually decided at age 5 when I saw Father of the Bride for the first time (the first of many, many times), that I wanted to live in Pasadena because I found out that’s where this house was.  I had no idea where Pasadena was.

Above and below, the kitchen seen round the blog world, from Something’s Gotta Give.  This kitchen was actually copied by countless people (they were published) who broke down exactly what makes it good (like dark floor, white cabinets, dark counter and hardware),and then reproduced minutia down to things like the exposed hinges on the cabinets and the stove with red knobs.

Ok, back to It’s Complicated…

(Mom– it’s the vindication you’ve always hoped for!  She has her appliances out on the counter and no one’s stopping her.  And the kitchen still looks awesome.  Sorry for always trying to hide your appliances, if Nancy Meyers does it, I guess I can accept it!)  

Meyers, who is an interior-design lover herself, actually has her personal decorator, James Radin, work with the production designer on her projects to achieve exactly the look she’s after.  In fact, the beloved Hamptons house from Something’s Gotta Give was based on her own home.

However, having read more on the subject on blogs obsessed with Meyers’ films’ sets (you think I’m obsessed? I barely scratch the surface), his exact role is debatable, as he is only credited with a “thanks” in the film, but he includes many set photos in his personal portfolio.

According to the Traditional Home article, since so much of the movie was shot in the house, Meyers wanted Streep to look good in it and had the color palette (of lots of creams, neutrals, and oranges) done to complement her coloring.  Clever!  Who was it that said you should decorate your house so that you always look good in it?

Though the house is Spanish colonial, much of the interiors follow the Belgian trend (that Restoration Hardware has up-and-run with) going on right now– bleached wood, neutral slipcovers, slate-topped tables, etc.  I’m not complaining.

It is interesting to note that though the house does always look good, it looks much better in the stills from the actual movie than the staged shots of the set… goes to show what the right lighting can do!!

Love the painted wood floor!

Images from the trailer, via Cote de Texas, and  Traditional Home, courtesy of Universal Pictures.

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Hearth-Proud

While I’m on this winter/fireplace kick, here are a few more from the files… this time, truly vast fireplaces.  While not always the right look, when they’re good, they’re great.  A fireplace so vast you could theoretically walk right into it, or roast a lamb on spit in it*, makes you feel warm and cozy just looking at it. 

From the Mulberry Home book.  (I actually work with the woman who started Mulberry Home!  Hi Jill!  Also, incidentally, Jill’s wonderful old home in England is one of the most cozy I’ve ever been in.)

 The home of Laudomia Pucci, with a 16th century fireplace.

*(Vegetarians avert your eyes.)  I’ve had this (in my opinion wonderful) image stuck in my brain since a trip to Patagonia, wherein, after a freezing cold rafting trip, we got out of the river and went up to a lodge where we got out of our wetsuits, and there was a fireplace so big that I literally stood inside it to take off my wetsuit.  Only after warming up enough to regain full awareness of my surroundings did I notice there actually WAS a lamb roasting next to me.  So cool.  Then we sat by the river at a huge table and ate it with empanadas.