“A home should feel considered, but not overdetermined. The inclusion of an African Dogon ladder represents another Catroux-approved decorative flourish. “That was my nod to Betty and Francois Catroux,” Kenyon says, describing the seductive ensemble.
The drama ratchets up in the couple’s primary bedroom, enrobed in shades of purple and burgundy, with Karl Springer lamps set on Paul Evans bedside tables, a Jules Leleu chair in Prelle fabric, and a formidable coromandel screen-cum-headboard. The dining room is enveloped in a cocoon of panels upholstered in a mousy brown corduroy-a discreet foil to a bold Apparatus chandelier, a custom, oblong marble table attuned to the room’s diminutive proportions, and dining chairs by Luigi Caccia Dominioni for Azucena. The time-traveling mix also encompasses club chairs covered in Clarence House’s classic Jazz Age fabric Ellington, parchment-covered waterfall cocktail tables, an Oushak carpet, and a massive custom cabinet of cerused oak inspired by the work of Josef Hoffmann.
The designer bathed the living room in Farrow & Ball’s Dead Salmon and Setting Plaster colors, creating a warm, inviting backdrop for an eclectic mélange of furnishings that features an 18th-century Flemish tapestry unexpectedly poised above a crisply tailored Milo Baughman sofa. “My goal was to give it a sense of depth and history, to build a narrative that reflects my sensibility as a designer as well as the way Jonathon and I want to live.”Ĭharming details can be spotted in the dining area. “It was really just a white box, a blank canvas,” Kenyon recalls. Deftly imbricated with color, pattern, texture, and furnishings of far-flung pedigree and provenance, the apartment strikes a delicate balance between old-school New York residential finery and contemporary decorative brio. Two years ago, he marshaled his broad experience in the design world and struck out on his own.Īs with many young designers, Kenyon’s most compelling calling card is his own home, a parlor-floor apartment in a Brooklyn brownstone, which he shares with his partner, production designer Jonathon Beck. Once the house was complete, the designer left the Jacobs orbit for in-house roles at Gachot Studios, the office of Kelly Behun (another AD100 designer), and Apparatus, where Kenyon served as a design director. “We spent years collecting, building, perfecting,” Kenyon says of the extraordinary assignment. When Jacobs purchased a town house in Greenwich Village roughly a decade ago, Kenyon settled into the role of client rep, working alongside the fashion guru and AD100 designers Thad Hayes, John Gachot, and the late Paul Fortune.
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