{"id":2776,"date":"2017-03-30T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/blog\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2020-01-24T12:32:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T12:32:43","slug":"nina-yashars-incredible-midcentury-furnished-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/nina-yashars-incredible-midcentury-furnished-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nina Yashar\u2019s incredible Midcentury furnished apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nNina Yashar\u2019s incredible Midcentury furnished apartment, <\/strong><\/em>stepping into Nina Yashar\u2019s two-story apartment in the heart of central Milan, first-time visitors could be forgiven for assuming that they\u2019ve walked into an achingly cool gallery rather than a family home.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0The walls are not only frescoes, they\u2019re engraved with ornate Persian patterns and symbols. Furniture and light fixtures could be mistaken for sculptures. Tables and cabinets groan with objets d\u2019art. It\u2019s almost as though the whole apartment has been curated rather than simply decorated \u2014 which, in a sense, it has, for this is the home of the woman who over the years has become affectionately known within artistic circles as the Queen of Design.<\/p>\n

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See also Spazio900: A Place For Lovers Of Vintage And Mid-Century Design<\/a>\n<\/div>\n
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As the founder and owner of the legendary Milanese design gallery Nilufar, Yashar has gained a reputation as one of the leading dealers on the international scene. She doesn\u2019t simply follow trends, she starts new movements and breaks from old ones by boldly blending the historic with the contemporary, the local with the foreign. She\u2019ll mix an 18th-century Tibetan cabinet with a modern Scandinavian rug and a Chinese chandelier, and then add works by the great midcentury Italian designers, several of whom she was the first of her generation to champion.<\/p>\n

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Yashar believes in using design to tell stories, and the story her apartment tells is that of her upbringing. Yashar is proud of her heritage and wanted her living space to reflect that. Yashar traveled across Europe and Scandinavia, which was where she first discovered her passion for furniture. Her love of modernist pieces by Arne Jacobsen and Alvar Aalto was not only innovative at the time; her willingness to showcase them alongside objects like Chinese rugs was unprecedented. She developed a reputation as a visionary curator, and soon people were lining up to see her exhibitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Yashar decided that the interior should have an Eastern feel, and to achieve it, she began collaborating with the Italian jewelry designer Giancarlo Montebello.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe fashion in the late \u201980s, early \u201990s in Italy was to cover walls with fabric or paper, but I wanted something different,\u201d Yashar says of the process. \u201cI told him that I wanted to make the walls more precious, so he suggested putting fresco not just on the ceilings but on the walls as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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