Before & After: A Brooklyn Apartment Gets A Vintage-Inspired Overhaul
Entrusting an interior designer to interpret your own personal style, and then translate it throughout the walls of your home, isn’t always the easiest surrender of control. And for those with endless creativity and inspiration springing from their life’s work and surroundings, that personal style can become even more nuanced, more difficult to convey, let […]
Entrusting an interior designer to interpret your own personal style, and then translate it throughout the walls of your home, isn’t always the easiest surrender of control. And for those with endless creativity and inspiration springing from their life’s work and surroundings, that personal style can become even more nuanced, more difficult to convey, let alone execute at the hands of someone who is not yourself. For Nicki Pombier Berger — an oral historian, educator and artist — articulating her vision for a full-apartment renovation in Brooklyn’s Park Slope to designer Elizabeth Mercer Aurandt first included talking at length about the project at hand. For Elizabeth to fully understand the inner workings of Nicki’s brain and the type of space that would feed her clever idea tank, she, as Nicki says, “internalized and metabolized” her ideas to bring them to life. After this gathering of ideas, Nicki says, “[Elizabeth] gives back a portrait of myself that I wouldn?t be able to come up with on my own.? Aside from the aesthetics of the home, it n...
Entrusting an interior designer to interpret your own personal style, and then translate it throughout the walls of your home, isn’t always the easiest surrender of control. And for those with endless creativity and inspiration springing from their life’s work and surroundings, that personal style can become even more nuanced, more difficult to convey, let alone execute at the hands of someone who is not yourself. For Nicki Pombier Berger — an oral historian, educator and artist — articulating her vision for a full-apartment renovation in Brooklyn’s Park Slope to designer Elizabeth Mercer Aurandt first included talking at length about the project at hand. For Elizabeth to fully understand the inner workings of Nicki’s brain and the type of space that would feed her clever idea tank, she, as Nicki says, “internalized and metabolized” her ideas to bring them to life. After this gathering of ideas, Nicki says, “[Elizabeth] gives back a portrait of myself that I wouldn?t be able to come up with on my own.? Aside from the aesthetics of the home, it n...
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Wilgah Residence: Bold Contemporary Addition to Heritage Home
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