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| Interiors |
| February 2008 |
| Imagine an artist’s sketch. The interplay of dark lines over an expanse of white. Complete in the mind’s eye. Imagine that same raw brilliance housed in Connecticut Colonial style. Impossible? While one might expect the interior of a 1920s-era home to read like an old painting—edge-to-edge all dabs and detail—its designer, Vicente Wolf, is not an architect of the obvious. |
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| Design NJ |
| June/July 2007 |
| To say that Etty and David Sadek’s Mission-style mansion looks as though it was plucked from a southwestern desertscape or even from a posh California enclave would be too easy. The 9,000-square-foot Teaneck home has all the hallmarks of architecture typically found nearer the West Coast: the stucco walls, the terra-cotta tile roof, the wrought-iron accents. But after walking through the oversized alder doors imported from Central America and into a tiled entryway with an interior garden and Oriental antiques, it’s clear that this home is such a unique expression of its owners’ backgrounds and tastes that it’s unlikely to have been built anywhere else by anyone else. |
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| New York Spaces |
| May 2007 |
“Swish”—it’s an adjective Gideon Gelber’s grandmother might have used in the early 20th century. But the interior designer says it’s the best way to describe the Upper East Side bachelorette pad he recently created for a busy lawyer. “Think of the Thin Man movies,” explains Gelber of Studio g&a in Manhattan. “It’s that scrappy sort of 1930s look—a bit drunken. It makes me think of ocean liners, silver airliners, blimps, martinis not filled to the top.”
Copyright © 2007 Wainscot Media LLC. Reprinted with permission. |
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| New York Spaces |
| March 2007 |
“Go green” may be a popular rally cry, yet it still carries a bit of a stigma, with its higher upfront costs and a seemingly hippie vibe. “But it’s not about having tree-stump coffee tables,” says Patricia Gaylor of Patricia Gaylor Interior Design in Little Falls, New Jersey. “It’s about having nice things and a healthy house—and doing something good for the world.”
Copyright © 2007 Wainscot Media LLC. Reprinted with permission. |
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| Design NJ |
| June 2005 |
| The irony of Joe Piscopo’s
settling in Central Hunterdon County
is not lost on the funnyman himself.
Early in his career the actor and
comedian made his name, in part, by
poking fun at the not-so-picturesque
portions of the state. (If Piscopo
didn’t coin the phrase, “What
exit?” he certainly popularized
it.) Now the Essex County native finds
himself enjoying the lush foliage,
rolling hills, and endless sky that
dominate the views from his home in
the western Jersey countryside. |
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| Design NJ |
| December 2004 |
Karen and Tom Prior
always wanted to own an old house.
But when they started looking in the
Chatham area during the late 1990s,
they found it was hard to come by
a home with a history. Many of the
old dwellings available needed much
more than a facelift. And those that
didn’t require a major rehab
often fell through their grasp.
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| Design NJ |
| October 2004 |
| The day New York Giants’ Defensive
End Michael Strahan and his wife,
Jean, laid eyes on their dream house,
the roof was crying black tears. As
the original slate tiles had fallen
from the 1905 Georgian mansion, they
were never replaced. Instead, a previous
owner sent a handyman up on a ladder
to pour tar over the breaches. Sticky
streams of ebony goo would then trickle
down the incline. The once-stately
residence perched high on a hill overlooking
Montclair had been horribly neglected—even
abused—over the years. In fact
it would have been cheaper to raze
the structure and build one or more
multimillion-dollar homes in its place.
But the Strahans couldn’t stand
the idea of such a magnificent piece
of architecture succumbing to a wrecking
ball. |
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| Star-Ledger, Home
& Garden |
| June 2, 2005 |
| For years homeowners tried their
best to disguise the black hole left
by a silent television, often hiding
unsightly sets in refrigerator-sized
armoires that consumed valuable floor
space. Not anymore. The new generation
of fashionable flat-panel televisions
begs to be noticed, and many homeowners
are eager to show them off. “They
have a certain sex appeal,”
said Jeffrey Joseph, a spokesman for
the Consumer Electronics Association,
an Arlington, Virginia, trade organization
for the consumer technology industry.
“Everyone loves that flat-panel
look. It’s sleek, it’s
clean, it’s modern. It looks
cool. It’s a fantasy to hang
this thing on your wall.” |
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