This style house Vintage It was a challenge since it started from scratch. «When I enter a space, sometimes I fall in love with him,» says New York designer Alyssa Kapito, a member of the Board of Directors Te. Such was the case of this Greek Renaissance Casa de Renaissance House project of the late nineteenth century in West Village, in which he began working for a young family at the beginning of the pandemic: «Light is beautiful. The proportions are so classic in the center of New York. It is a property so charming that I said that the owners immediately. You do not always have the opportunity to design these jewels, but this is really a jewelry.
That does not mean that the house will not need much work by Kapito, who studied art history and is known for its interior collector approach and the sophisticated mixture of old pieces, Vintage and contemporaries that you select. (His aesthetics is exposed for the first time in his next autotitulated monograph, which Rizzoli published on March 19).
Although the previous owners commissioned Gil Schafer – a master of American historical and vernacular architecture where there are a thorough and perfect conservation, restoration and renewal, some decoration errors had been made in the elapsed decade. The house, says Kapito, «had lost his point of view and had become a kind of revoltijo.»
Even so, «there was a lot of charm to discover,» he says, and explains that the new owners «wanted to maintain all the details that had been restored», and the elements that seemed outdated «shocks stained with an unattractive brown, paint colors that» were past fashionable » – could easily be fixed. As the architecture was so beautiful and had preserved so well, customers wanted to «lower a step» the existing decoration, as Kapito says, so that it seems quieter and became a wonderful style house Vintage.
«They are a young and fun family, and they wanted you to feel more like them,» he continues. As for the role she saw for her and her company, «we were there to soften the whole place, to make a face washing.» To achieve this, the designer worked from the perimeter inside. He started covering the most daring colors and replacing them with a more sober palette to help owners get the quiet environment they wanted. He painted the walls and moldings of the main floor of a very intense cream – «no white,» he points out, giving the walls a marmorin gypsum finish and applying a high bright lacquer to the moldings. The first «creates texture and shade,» he explains, while the second «reflects the light very well.»
With this relatively neutral canvas, he began collecting for customers, who moved to this house from another place in the city but did not plan to bring any of their furniture. «It's always nice to have the opportunity to start with a blank board,» says Kapito. «There is something really special to get everything for customers.»