Friday Five with Amanda Pratt of Salon Design
Interior architect Amanda Pratt is the founder of Boston's Salon. and today she's sharing a few favorites for Friday Five.
Salon is a recently opened female-focused, curated contemporary design showroom, café, and gallery space in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, and at its helm is Amanda Pratt. The founder and interior architect hopes to share her love of design through the innovative space that also serves as an incubator for studio-created works in furniture, lighting, rugs, wallpaper, and textiles that lack representation. Her design aesthetic emphasizes livable elegance, while her knowledge of the technical construction of spaces helps to inform Amanda’s ability to create extraordinary environments. Collaborating with her clients to make sure she has a clear understanding of their needs and desired outcome, results in a clean, timeless interior, whose art and furniture is a reflection of the client’s personality. In this week’s Friday Five, Amanda shares a few of her favorite things and a cause she’s extremely passionate about. Photo by Amy K. Boyd Photography
1. A Chair Worth Hanging On To (or Hanging Out In!)
Mine is a ?Martingala? chair by Marco Zanuso. I found it on 1stdibs and it was in terrible shape. It still had the original marigold yellow upholstery and it smelled awful. Every time someone sat on it another layer of foam would disintegrate, making it seem as though the chair was shedding. Despite its obvious drawbac...
Salon is a recently opened female-focused, curated contemporary design showroom, café, and gallery space in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, and at its helm is Amanda Pratt. The founder and interior architect hopes to share her love of design through the innovative space that also serves as an incubator for studio-created works in furniture, lighting, rugs, wallpaper, and textiles that lack representation. Her design aesthetic emphasizes livable elegance, while her knowledge of the technical construction of spaces helps to inform Amanda’s ability to create extraordinary environments. Collaborating with her clients to make sure she has a clear understanding of their needs and desired outcome, results in a clean, timeless interior, whose art and furniture is a reflection of the client’s personality. In this week’s Friday Five, Amanda shares a few of her favorite things and a cause she’s extremely passionate about. Photo by Amy K. Boyd Photography
1. A Chair Worth Hanging On To (or Hanging Out In!)
Mine is a ?Martingala? chair by Marco Zanuso. I found it on 1stdibs and it was in terrible shape. It still had the original marigold yellow upholstery and it smelled awful. Every time someone sat on it another layer of foam would disintegrate, making it seem as though the chair was shedding. Despite its obvious drawbac...
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