Damon Liss Design

In a Nashville home boasting mid-century interior architecture with all the right angles, New York City–based Damon Liss added showstopping furnishings with curves in all the right places. “The client was drawn to more feminine pieces that were both captivating and bold,” says the designer, who developed a keen eye for silhouettes at a young age working at Women’s Haberdashers, his father’s bespoke fashion salon on Madison Avenue. In this conversational grouping, one of the more formal in a large open living room with multiple seating areas, Liss paired quintessential 1950s and ’60s designs from Italy, France and Finland with a contemporary Stillmade Studio coffee table, a custom Joseph Carini carpet and, above the fireplace, a Beverly Fishman painted-wood assemblage. The quartet of Marco Zanuso Senior chairs were sourced through Galerie Edouard de la Marque, a 1stDibs dealer, and the designer acquired the 1950s Guillerme et Chambron wooden cabinet with stylized quatrefoil panels and a pair of Paavo Tynell chandeliers from another 1stDibs seller, Donzella. “They were ordered by a clubhouse in Finland circa 1945, designed and hand-forged by Tynell,” Liss says. “And the immense scale of them really sets the tone for the space.”