How much natural light does the living room get?
Not that much. That’s why all the furniture in the living room has legs. Now normally, you’re taught as a designer that you don’t want everything on prissy feet. But in this space I wanted to keep things light, airy, and transparent. No skirts to the floor unless absolutely necessary. And in here the emphasis of the color palette changes toward yellows, golds, and sunnier creams, because these colors seem to emanate light. Those hand-painted cabinets in the galley kitchen demonstrate again how you can pack lots of refinement, beauty, and atmosphere into tiny spaces. The diamond shapes and tones of golden parchment and golden taupe are adapted from an antique Gustavian sideboard. And those wonderful stone pavers? They look ancient, like someone couldn’t afford them and lifted them up from the street. People used to do that in New York’s SoHo, and they’d install the old cobblestones in New Jersey. But we didn’t steal these! They’re new. Chris, as the project designer, I know you worked c
