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Beacon Hill
BOSTON, MA
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Channeling the punctuated palette and lush textures of a 1910 Henri Rousseau painting
hanging in MoMA just a short walk away, a 47th-story Manhattan pied-à-terre flaunts its own collection of captivating art in an eclectic setting with enviable views.
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Ten years and two children after our
first partnership, our client called us to help
them ease the family's expanding needs with
with a strategy that would support their hectic
city lives while conveying their deep affinity for
the woods and fearless sense of style.
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Ten years and two children after our
first partnership, our client called us to help
them ease the family's expanding needs with
with a strategy that would support their hectic city lives while
conveying their deep affinity for the woods
and fearless sense of style.
The reimagined foyer is segmented from a newly added powder room by a reeded glass wall designed to draw the limited natural light into adjacent spaces and, with a touch of irreverence, offer distorted glimpses of figures beyond. Enveloping terracotta brick tile selected for ease of maintenance pairs with a sinuous, suspended ceiling canopy to add visual texture to the liminal space and emphasize the new soaring ceiling height.
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Our early research included the precise storage layouts of sleeping cabins aboard luxury yachts as precedent for optimizing utility of the primary bedroom's limited footprint. A full suite of smoked oak millwork hides building services and eliminates the need for freestanding furniture.
The new water closet is adorned in a cheeky monkey wallcovering, a talisman to ensure good fortune after the flood that prompted the renovation.
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They took the pressure off of me, tied all the daunting pieces together, and brought my vision of wanting something bold and dramatic to a reality that far exceeded my expectation to life. Marc is no ordinary designer. Run, don't walk, to work with them!
High Drama
Ideas from a Chic Boston Apartment Makeover
Make Room: Rustic Urbanity
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Velvet sofas face a 1940's maple C. H. Hartshorn lounge chair in the living room's entertaining lounge - one of two sitting areas that flank a wood-burning stove. The relaxed, bohemian mood is rendered in autumnal tones of crimson and camel set against brick walls tempered with neutral paint and a high contrast jet black ceiling.
PROJECT DETAILS
• Convert nursery into primary bedroom
• Corral sports equipment, wine collection, pet paraphernalia, craft supplies, linens, shoes and family sundries into a central location
• Add a second bathroom
Interior Design + Architectural Advisory
Situated on a historic thoroughfare near the Nation's oldest public park, this residence deliberately strays from the colonial references of its gas-lamped, cobblestoned neighborhood. After a flood rendered half of the home unlivable, our long-term client engaged us to redesign the space to accommodate the needs (and rapidly expanding piles of 'stuff') of two growing pre-teens and an active family calendar. Our strategic approach included a bedroom swap and conversion of the damaged area into a primary suite with powder room and a high-functioning mudroom that would harmonize with the existing public spaces and allow them to remain more comfortably in the home for the next decade.
In this modestly-sized condominium on the ground floor of a historic building, the allocation to the new primary bedroom was restricted to 8' in width due to immovable shared building services. Yet, storage and sleeping functions for two adults needed to be addressed within the limited footprint while housing steam pipes and HVAC components.
The space also sits below grade with 6'5' ceilings, stifling reliance on traditional plumbing interventions for the requested bathroom and straining comfort for the 6'2' homeowner. Additionally, the only source of natural light in the front half of the home is supplied by a single window set within 100-year-old crumbling plaster walls. Rather than resist these architectural constraints, we enacted a comprehensive design to address them head on.
During demolition, we discovered an additional 3’ of space above a dropped ceiling along with a 5" diameter steam pipe conspicuously bisecting the length of the open hallway. The initial plan to relocate it proved inviable, requiring a pivot from the original design. As a remedy, we conceived an undulating slatted canopy system made from recycled rice hulls to disguise plumbing and electrical systems, uneven brick surfaces and the raw concrete slab ceiling above.
Design: 8 weeks
Implementation & Construction: 12 months
Tile Contractor: Nationwide Tile
Millwork: Millwork: Schiefer & Co.
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MHLI is a full-service, Black-owned boutique specialized in luxury interior renovations, new builds and comprehensive furnishing projects. Read more