{"id":403066,"date":"2022-11-18T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=403066"},"modified":"2023-01-05T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T18:43:27","slug":"how-to-decorate-with-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/how-to-decorate-with-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sculpture Can Take a Room from Good to Great"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Dining
Photo by Michael Mundy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Interior designer Michael S. Smith<\/a> says that for this barn-like post-and-beam Hamptons home<\/a> by architecture firm Ferguson & Shamamian<\/a>, he was \u201ctrying to concentrate on the most reductive aspects of vernacular American style \u2014 the organic, almost agrarian saltbox form \u2014 as a starting point but pushing them in an interesting way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, he conceived the dining area of the open-plan great room as a \u201cvision of the materiality and simplicity of agrarian life,\u201d with handmade ladderback chairs<\/a> from Jamb<\/a> and a custom reclaimed-wood table<\/a>. The carved mid-century<\/a> sycamore sculpture<\/a> by the self-taught French artist and furniture maker Alexandre Noll<\/a> jibes with that embrace of handcrafted materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also serves an important function. \u201cScale is hard in a barn \u2014 how do you humanize those tall open spaces and bring them down?\u201d Smith asks, explaining that Noll\u2019s sculpture adds a weight and volume that ground the room\u2019s lofty airiness, so people don\u2019t feel dwarfed by its cavernous expanse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Entryway
Photo by Bess Friday<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The collectors who own this home in San Francisco\u2019s Pacific Heights<\/a> came across the unusual African sculpture<\/a> that now dominates their entryway at the Academy of Art University while out on an evening walk. Called Tranquility<\/em>, it was made from a single block of clay<\/a> by an anonymous artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, their residence was under renovation, so they had the stair adjusted to wrap partially around the work. A decade later, ABD STUDIO<\/a> was brought in for another revamp, and \u201cTranquility<\/em> became the impetus for many design decisions,\u201d says firm founder Brittany Giannone. \u201cThe team incorporated the same burnt-umber color of the clay throughout the space.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite its size, she notes, the sense of peace it radiates means that \u201cmost visitors do not initially notice its presence but rather will recognize later that they’ve walked by it.\u201d One exception was the owners\u2019 nephew, who crossed the room to avoid it until he was older. \u201cNow, he has come to admire it,\u201d Giannone says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Living
Photo by Peter Vitale<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know that you can get a more impactful element than bronze<\/a> in a room,\u201d says Tara Shaw<\/a>, who designed this home in New Orleans<\/a> for chef Emeril Lagasse and his wife, Alden. That belief led her to the Tom Corbin<\/a> sculpture that surveys the living room from one corner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At nearly six feet tall, she notes, it adds verticality to an otherwise low-slung group of furnishings, which includes contemporary seating<\/a> and antiques<\/a> found on her travels in Italy. The coffee table<\/a> is a repurposed 18th-century altar with its original water gilding, to which she added a marble top and claw-foot legs. At left is a 19th-century Italian credenza<\/a> topped by Florentine crystal candelabras<\/a> from the same period. \u201cI\u2019m always looking to layer in textures, which I do by using work from artists and artisans,\u201d Shaw explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Dining
Photo by Richard Powers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cI love using plaster sculptures<\/a> in a room,\u201d says Timothy Corrigan<\/a>, \u201cbecause they provide strong visual impact but the soft white surface isn\u2019t overpowering in the way that bronze would be at the same scale.\u201d Case in point: the early-19th-century plaster bust of Zeus that Corrigan deployed on the mantel of this dining room of an apartment in Paris\u2019s 8th arrondissement<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each unit in the 1800s Haussmann-style building occupies a full floor, so generously proportioned spaces are the norm. The bust, as well as the marble columns with bisque figures of Zeus\u2019s progeny Athena and Aphrodite, enhances the neoclassical<\/a> envelope of the interior, which retains its original boiserie<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the center of the room, Louis XVI\u2013style chairs<\/a> by Moissonnier<\/a> (upholstered in Corrigan\u2019s own Madeleine velvet<\/a> for Schumacher<\/a>) gather round a 1970s table<\/a> in lacquer and polished brass. Overhead is an 1865 Napoleon III<\/a> chandelier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Living
Photo by William Waldron<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Art<\/a> is integral to the lives of collectors Stephanie Ingrassia<\/a> (a board member of Brooklyn Museum<\/a>) and her husband, Timothy. So, it\u2019s little surprise that the estate they built on an old dairy farm in New Preston, Connecticut<\/a>, shelters many important works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this wood-paneled living room, \u201ceverything was very matte,\u201d says Ellen Hamilton, founder of Hamilton Design Associates<\/a>. \u201cIt needed a little sparkle.\u201d The requisite shine comes in the form of a sequined Nick Cave<\/a> Soundsuit that stands in one corner of the room, as well as a Mickalene Thomas<\/a> sequin portrait, pictured at center. Fortuny<\/a> pillows on the Vladimir Kagan<\/a> sofa add more-subtle shimmer, contrasting with the witty inclusion of a Belgian 18th-century latrine chair (chamber pot removed) on the other side of the Lalanne bronze coffee table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Entry
Photo by Stylish Productions<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Jamie Merida<\/a>\u2019s client rescued a beach house on Sanibel Island<\/a>, Florida, that had seen better days and sought to make it her own. \u201cWe were looking for a way to exhibit her many collections,\u201d Merida says, including vintage painted sand pails, Thomas Moser<\/a> furniture and ceramics<\/a>. An entry hall adjacent to a high-ceilinged great room accomplishes some of this. Here, Leila Walker\u2019s Unknotted<\/em>, a sculpture composed of shimmery, diaphanous fabrics over a metal armature, \u201cstops your eye before it continues out to the view of the bay,\u201d says the designer, who raised it on a pedestal for a more presentational look. \u201cShe loved how evocative it was of a little girl reading.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That piece is joined by a trio of stacked-stone totems. A painting by Darryl Pottorf<\/a> (chief studio assistant to Robert Rauschenberg<\/a> in the 1990s) hangs over a Global Views<\/a> bench. Above is a neon<\/a> work commissioned by the homeowner and inspired by a Mae West quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Entry
Photo by Ben Gebo Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In the entry hall of a new home in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts<\/a>, Alyson Shotz\u2019s stacked-glass sculpture, incorporating dichromatic film, creates a mesmerizing effect. \u201cIt brings a sense of life and light to an inner space,\u201d says Elizabeth Georgantas, principal of Georgantas Design + Development<\/a>. \u201cIt casts sparkles on the wall and up the stairs, and it changes throughout the day.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With its dancing displays of light and feeling of twirling motion, the piece also has a special resonance with the former ballerina who owns this house with her husband, a hedge fund executive. The couple commissioned the work directly from Shotz, who is best known for much larger sculptures and public installations. To the right is a work by Robert Savoie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Living
Photo by James McDonald
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When developing the scheme for a gut renovation of this London home<\/a>, Tamzin Greenhill<\/a> concentrated on designing rooms that were \u201cserene, balanced and symmetrical<\/a>.\u201d In the lower-level dining room, she achieved this primarily with furnishings characterized by straight lines, such as a BDDW<\/a> console, a custom table and chairs by postwar French designer Joseph-Andr\u00e9 Motte<\/a>. But she animated the orthogonal neatness with art, placing one of Conrad Shawcross\u2019s Fracture sculptures, made of weathered steel, in the corner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe piece brings a totally different dimension to the room and, for me, completely makes the space work,\u201d she says. \u201cIt gives the room life. It feels like nature or like a tree, and I love how the light passes through it.\u201d The painting at right is by Toby Ziegler, whose oeuvre oscillates between representation and abstraction and contributes here to the sense of movement initiated by the Shawcross sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Bathroom
Photo by Andrea Calo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Bathrooms and kitchens are not places one usually expects to see sculpture. And that’s the point for Sara Cukerbaum, founder of SLIC Design<\/a>, in Austin, Texas. This bath is part of the primary bedroom suite she built onto her own circa 1963 bungalow<\/a> in the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The white-painted terracotta bricks chime with the home\u2019s mid-century<\/a> vibe, as do 1950s Luigi Caccia Dominioni<\/a> brass lights, purchased through 1stDibs. Cukerbaum found the ebony-stained wood torso on her travels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we bring art into a kitchen or bath,\u201d she explains, \u201cit\u2019s to give it more character and personality. It makes the room feel more personal and also less like just a utilitarian space.\u201d The work on the wall adds a personal note, as well: It was created by her grandmother, who was an artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Living
Photo by Laure Joliet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

For clients who had relocated from New York to a Dolores Park home<\/a> at the edge of San Francisco\u2019s Mission District, Lauren Geremia<\/a> decided to include a piece of Manhattan in her interior design scheme. The piece in question is a reflective glass sculpture by artist Jeff Zimmerman<\/a>, purchased from Tribeca gallery R & Company<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work hangs in the living area of a long multiuse room that also includes a dining area, a kitchen and a breakfast nook. \u201cI thought it would be dynamic to see the whole space in reflective spheres that are activated with any signs of life and draw your attention and your eye up to it,\u201d she says. Also visible in the spheres are the room\u2019s furnishings \u2014 among them, a pair of greyhound sculptures found through 1stDibs and a sofa from Phase Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Living
Photo by Victoria Pearson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cSculpture elevates a space,\u201d says Todd Nickey, of Nickey Kehoe.<\/a> \u201cWe could have put a chandelier<\/a> here, and people would have said, \u2018Oh, this is a living room.\u2019 But with the mobile, it feels more like a gallery.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nickey notes that the vibrant red piece, conceived by Palm Springs gallery owner Colin Fisher, lends \u201ca sense of animation and movement\u201d to this living room, located in a renovated Malibu ranch house<\/a> whose former owners include Charles Bronson and Olivia Newton John<\/a>. The eclectic furnishings \u2014 original Gio Ponti<\/a> chairs, custom Suzani<\/a> poufs, a 1970s lounge chair<\/a> upholstered in silver lam\u00e9 \u2014 are joined by a mechanized Tom Haney sculpture, next to the fireplace, depicting a man hawking merchandise from inside his coat. Clearly, the homeowner is a collector with a sense of humor. The mobile, adds Nickey, \u201cis the first piece I bought. We built the room around it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Kitchen
Photo by Richard Powers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cI was attracted to the shape because it was a kind of a circle,\u201d says Vance Burke<\/a>, referring to a ceramic sculpture by A. Knistian that he purchased in Palm Springs. It now sits in front of the kitchen fireplace in his Palm Springs home<\/a>, framed by a mantel of Emperador marble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m always attracted to circles and squares,\u201d he explains. Circles repeat throughout the space: in a pigmented-glue work by Heidi Van Wieren above the fireplace, in the flowers of a Donald Baechler<\/a> piece in the window seat and in a pillow made from a repurposed table runner from the 1950s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI like that the figure looks like he\u2019s warming himself by the fire,\u201d Burke says. \u201cIn a different setting, in that curled-up fetal position, he might have looked sad.\u201d Even the steel benches<\/a>, where Burke and his guests can also warm themselves, \u201callude to a portion of a circle,\u201d he points out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Living
Photo by Peter Vitale<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The clients who asked Marcus Mohon<\/a> to renovate this large Fort Worth, Texas, residence<\/a> for their growing family came to the table with exquisite collections of art and artifacts. In the family room, Mohon used an African Dogon ladder<\/a> they had purchased on their travels as a sculptural element. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIts strong graphic profile, heft and dark finish help balance the darker millwork and fireplace on the opposite side,\u201d he explains. \u201cIts shape also stands in sharp contrast to all the straight lines and the clean nature of the millwork. This piece keeps the room interesting and dynamic.\u201d Materially, it also has a rapport with the chunky wood and rustic carving of two tables in the seating area. The custom sofa, A. Rudin<\/a> sectional and chair from Gregorius Pineo<\/a> all exhibit clean, modern lines and neutral tones that allow the wood’s textural qualities to stand out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Living
Photo by Alice Gao<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Bridging the dichotomies inherent in a residential tower that rises out of a 19th-century landmark was Magdalena Keck<\/a>\u2019s mission in this 43rd-floor apartment<\/a> above the old Temple Court Building in downtown Manhattan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keck went appropriately modern and swanky with the living room\u2019s Galileo sofa by Patrick Naggar<\/a>, lounge chairs by Mexican mid-century architect Arturo Pani<\/a> from Compasso<\/a> and a coffee table in brass and cast glass by Bruno Moinard<\/a>. The D\u00f3rica floor lamp<\/a> by Santa & Cole<\/a> mirrors the rounded corners of Keck\u2019s custom-designed tambour cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A niche in the latter holds the pivotal element, one that adds a sense of time and history. Leg with Blue Wing<\/em>, a clay and bronze sculpture by American artist Stephen De Staebler, \u201cpays homage to antiquity while capturing relationships connecting the body and earth,\u201d says Keck. \u201cArt expands one\u2019s experience in the space<\/a>. . . . It is the perception between the viewer and the work that creates the energy that in turn resonates through the physical space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Family
Photo by Mali Azima<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Refreshing a 1934 Regency-style home<\/a> in Atlanta was the task before designer Melanie Turner<\/a> and architect Yong Pak, and they tackled it with uncluttered spaces, bright color and tongue-in-cheek wit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An example of the last is the placement in the family room of one of the owner\u2019s artworks \u2014 a bronze by contemporary sculptor Jean-Louis \u00c9mond. It sits on a pedestal before Andrew Moore<\/a>\u2019s photograph of an enfilade of galleries in the Hermitage, Room 348, Detail, St. Petersburg<\/em>, from Jackson Fine Art. Because of the picture’s scale, the sculpture appears to be on exhibit in the museum too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bright white walls with classical details and sunny yellow Hickory Chair<\/a> seating around a Made Goods<\/a> pedestal table bring the 1930s residence into the now. Oly Studio<\/a>\u2019s white modern sculpture creates an interesting counterpoint to the \u00c9mond nearby. Observes Turner, \u201cThe void in the room \u2014 meaning the sparer use of furnishings \u2014 elevates both sculptures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Restaurant
Photo courtesy of Equinox Hotels<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

When the Rockwell Group<\/a> designed New York\u2019s Equinox Hotel<\/a>, it installed a monumental Jaume Plensa<\/a> sculpture above the sleek reflecting pool on the rooftop terrace of Electric Lemon, the property\u2019s restaurant. Without it, the vibe would have been completely different. The space’s individual elements \u2014 the light stone tiles, the dark the pool, the live-edge<\/a> wood lounge chairs \u2014 in themselves would certainly have been evocative enough to create a \u201cluxurious environment,\u201d says the firm\u2019s partner and studio leader, Greg Keffer, who spearheaded the project. But they attained depth and meaning with the inclusion of Plensa\u2019s artwork. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The design scheme has since changed, and the sculpture has been removed, but Keffer feels it brought an incontrovertibly serene, still presence to whatever was around it. \u201cWe love how it added volume and drew the eye to the view of the Hudson River,\u201d Keffer explains. \u201cPlensa\u2019s work evokes the human body, memory and spirit, all ideas we celebrated throughout the hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interior designer Michael S. Smith says that for this barn-like post-and-beam Hamptons home by architecture firm Ferguson & Shamamian, he was \u201ctrying to concentrate on the most reductive aspects of vernacular American style \u2014 the organic, almost agrarian saltbox form \u2014 as a starting point but pushing them in an interesting way.\u201d To that end, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":404184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-11-18T20:35:35Z","apple_news_api_id":"4c2eea47-a80a-498b-884b-613e8881ef47","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-05T18:40:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJw==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATC7qR6gKSYuIS2E-iIHvRw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15522073],"tags":[15570035,15550708,15570019,15570025,15570037,15570013,15570033,15570028,15570024,12617353,15570017,15570015,15570018,15570014,15570034,15570016,15570040,15570038,15549895,15570032,15570023,15549421,15551049,15568347,15570012,15570022,15550910,15549848,15570039,15568091,15570030,15570031,15570021,15550282,15570036,15570026,14799043,2157153,15570029,15570020,15542693],"dibs-categories":[],"dibs-designs":[],"dibs-styles":[],"dibs-creators":[],"dibs-sellers":[],"class_list":["post-403066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interiors","tag-a-knistian","tag-abd-studio","tag-alexandre-noll","tag-alyson-shotz","tag-andrew-moore","tag-brittany-giannone","tag-colin-fisher","tag-conrad-shawcross","tag-darryl-pottorf","tag-donald-baechler","tag-elizabeth-georgantas","tag-ellen-hamilton","tag-georgantas-design-development","tag-hamilton-design-associates","tag-heidi-van-wieren","tag-jamie-merida","tag-jaume-plensa","tag-jean-louis-emond","tag-jeff-zimmerman","tag-lauren-geremia","tag-leila-walker","tag-magdalena-keck","tag-marcus-mohon","tag-melanie-turner","tag-michael-s-smith-2","tag-mickalene-thomas","tag-nick-cave","tag-nickey-kehoe","tag-oly-studio","tag-rockwell-group","tag-sara-cukerbaum","tag-slic-design","tag-soundsuit","tag-stephanie-ingrassia","tag-stephen-de-staebler","tag-tamzin-greenhill","tag-tara-shaw","tag-timothy-corrigan","tag-toby-ziegler","tag-tom-corbin","tag-vance-burke"],"acf":{"post_format":"article","subtitle":"Whether daring or contemplative, monumental or tabletop, sculpture can transform a space with its powerful presence. 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