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We adore it once we can play matchmaker, connecting a Remodelista reader to a featured designer.
Lately, we heard from rising British designer and antiques seller Georgie Stogdon that an American shopper approached her after seeing her tiny London condominium crammed with antiques and classic finds on Remodelista a number of years in the past. “She’s a tech exec from California with three grown youngsters. Work required her to be spending extra time in New York so she determined to seek out an condominium to lease to have extra of a everlasting base,” Georgie explains. The West Village condominium she finally rented “was filled with quirks that had been rather more English in model: rickety unique floorboards, low ceilings, crumbling plasterwork—options that might usually ship somebody working, however they didn’t put her off,” continues Georgie. “She thought my obvious ‘English sensibility’ can be the fitting match for the undertaking.”
Sadly, this was all occurring on the top of the COVID pandemic, when flights from Europe to the US had been grounded. So Georgie promptly enlisted a younger NYC architect who had simply graduated from the Pratt Institute “to be my eyes on the bottom” and do a survey and drawings of the condominium. Then, over the course of six months, the designer crammed “a transport container’s price of artwork, furnishings, and antiquities starting from Viennese secessionist chairs, seventeenth century tapestries to twentieth century weaves. There isn’t a single piece which doesn’t have a wealthy story.”
Each merchandise made the cross-Atlantic journey safely (“though there have been some bushy moments attempting to get a number of of the bigger objects up the slim staircase to the highest flooring”). Then the devotee of all issues previous and analogue needed to resort to know-how to complete the undertaking, utilizing Zoom to supervise set up.
Beneath, Georgie takes us on a tour of the stunning outcomes. “It’s a small, serene house, regardless of the eclecticism and, in response to the shopper, the proper antidote and juxtaposition to the hectic metropolis beneath her.”
Pictures by Matthew Williams, courtesy of Georgie Stogdon.
