{"id":3493,"date":"2017-05-24T13:29:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/blog\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2017-05-24T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:29:31","slug":"fashionable-historic-homes-modern-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/fashionable-historic-homes-modern-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"FIND OUT FASHIONABLE HISTORIC HOMES WITH MODERN APPEAL!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These historic homes<\/strong> <\/em>have distinctive architectural details, but they subtly mix contemporary, vintage and antique furnishings. The result? Spaces artfully eclectic, both stylishly edgy and comfortably classic.<\/p>\n

Step with us inside \u201cthe best of both worlds\u201d \u2013 historic homes with modern appeal!<\/p>\n

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Photo by Olivier Lo\u0308ser<\/span><\/p>\n

With its spectacular 19th-century painted ceiling and herringbone parquet flooring, this Paris apartment embodies the ideals of the city\u2019s Haussmannian architecture. Isabelle Stanislas sought to create a dialogue between \u201cold and new\u201d when designing the space for an art collector client.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Justin Bernhaut<\/span><\/p>\n

In a Gramercy Park apartment, Alexandra Loew used sculptural, chromatic pieces as counterpoints to the space\u2019s classical architectural details.The contemporary photos are by Donald Sultan and Matthew Pillsbury, the Ribbon Chairs are by Jan Eckselius and the 1970s cocktail table is by Lella and Massimo Vegnelli.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Bess Friday<\/span><\/p>\n

When interior designer Catherine Kwong created the living room of the 2013 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, she sourced an antique gilt mirror with carvings that echo the ceiling\u2019s fine gold detailing. The custom-painted floor design was inspired by a Cy Twombly painting.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Francis Amiand<\/span><\/p>\n

In a Paris residential project known as Apartment 002, Bismut & Bismut placed objects, including Eileen Gray Transat armchairs and a bronze C\u00e9sar sculpture, on white platforms that seem to hover around a PETAL coffee table by the designers.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Stephen Smith\/Kristi Stiff Imaginare Co<\/span><\/p>\n

For the wall surface of a Greenwich Village duplex\u2019s double-height living room, architect Michael Haverland reinterpreted the pattern of the original coffered ceiling using computer-generated shapes. The blue wool-upholstered armchairs are by Marco Zanuso, and the ottoman is by Edward Wormley.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Studioilse<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ett Hem hotel in Stockholm, Sweden was designed by Ilse Crawford and her firm, Studioilse. Crawford updated the property \u2014 a 1910 Arts and Craft building \u2014 with a mixture of vintage and modern furnishings.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Gary Hamill<\/span><\/p>\n

Douglas Mackie reinterpreted this mid-19th-century London townhouse for the modern age by installing a subdued silk wallpaper, and using sophisticated, simple pieces that include a linen-clad Christian Liagre sofa and a Callum Innes painting.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Kate Martin<\/span><\/p>\n

The gray silk-sheathed drawing room of a London residence by Peter Mikic features a gilt 19th-century mirror, a marble fireplace surround from Chesney\u2019s and photography by Miles Aldridge.<\/p>\n

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These historic homes have distinctive architectural details, but they subtly mix contemporary, vintage and antique furnishings. The result? Spaces artfully eclectic, both stylishly edgy and comfortably classic. Step with us inside \u201cthe best of both worlds\u201d \u2013 historic homes with modern appeal! Photo by Olivier Lo\u0308ser With its spectacular 19th-century painted ceiling and herringbone parquet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":3503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[812,810,809,807,808,811,813,814,99,97],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-interior-design","tag-19th-century","tag-fashionable","tag-historic-home-apartments","tag-historic-homes","tag-historic-homes-near-me","tag-london-townhouse","tag-marble-fireplace","tag-mod-century","tag-modern","tag-vintage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}