This Apartment in a McKim, Mead & White Building Only Gets Better With Age
Designer Julie Hillman’s refresh of a landmarked Manhattan maisonette is a master class in living with history.
By Vanessa Lawrence and Produced by Cynthia Frank Jun 4, 2021 Simon Upton
The challenges of renovating a historic property are myriad. Do you restore it to a mirror image of its past self? Must the furnishings be period? How do you impart your own aesthetic identity on someone else’s? For Julie Hillman, the answer to the latter question is simple: You tread lightly and thoughtfully. “I’m not going to be the designer who changes [a] historical space it’s just not what I’m about,” says Hillman, a New York–based designer who recently overhauled this Beaux Arts Fifth Avenue home. “I don’t need to put my mark on something that’s been around forever and is spectacular as it stands.”
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Like many people stuck at home over the past year, arts patron, interior designer, and collector Joanna Fisher found herself imagining what her dream house might look like. She found a preexisting building. She shopped for the best vintage furniture to fill its interiors. She commissioned paintings and sculptures from her favorite artists. But after Fisher’s project was complete, she couldn’t exactly move in. You see, Fisher’s fantasy residence is a dollhouse.
Fortunately, we can visit the petite residence, thanks to a new show at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), the Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature,
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After a long, dark winter arguably the longest and darkest that many of us have experienced spring’s beauty is finally here, and a veritable rainbow has descended upon us. The blushing pink of magnolia bushes, the fiery red and sunny yellow of rows of tulips, the crisp pea green of fresh blades of grass.
If all of these bright and hopeful hues have you wanting to take a deeper dive into their scientific, cultural, and decorative underpinnings, you’re in luck. A trio of cultural endeavors two of which you can enjoy from home explores the power of color in our daily lives. And who knows? Perhaps they will inspire you to incorporate a bolder palette at home.
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The success of an interior design project often relies as much on diplomacy as it does on creative inspiration. Take this Harlem brownstone, home to a couple and their teenage daughter (their other two daughters have already flown the nest). One spouse prefers things minimal; the other is a fan of color (especially red) and pattern. They also have a strong art collection reflecting their North African and Costa Rican backgrounds. And the final result needed to accommodate extended family who, under nonpandemic circumstances, would come over for meals and longer stays. Easy, right? The Brooklyn-based designer Delia Kenza, who founded her eponymous firm in 2011, doesn’t have a background in geopolitical negotiating. But she does employ an approach that made her a perfect fit for the job at hand.