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Not too way back, we heard from rising British designer and antiques vendor Georgie Stogdon that an American shopper approached her after seeing her tiny London home full of antiques and traditional finds on Remodelista only a few years up to now. “She’s a tech exec from California with three grown kids. Work required her to be spending additional time in New York so she decided to look out an home to rent to have additional of a eternal base,” Georgie explains. The West Village home she lastly rented “was crammed with quirks which have been far more English in mannequin: rickety genuine floorboards, low ceilings, crumbling plasterwork—choices that will often ship any person working, nevertheless they didn’t put her off,” continues Georgie. “She thought my apparent ‘English sensibility’ might be the right match for the problem.”
Sadly, this was all going down on the highest of the COVID pandemic, when flights from Europe to the US have been grounded. So Georgie promptly enlisted a youthful NYC architect who had merely graduated from the Pratt Institute “to be my eyes on the underside” and do a survey and drawings of the home. Then, over the course of six months, the designer stuffed “a transport container’s worth of paintings, furnishings, and antiquities ranging from Viennese secessionist chairs, Seventeenth century tapestries to twentieth century weaves. There isn’t a single piece which doesn’t have a rich story.”
Every merchandise made the cross-Atlantic journey safely (“although there have been some furry moments attempting to get only a few of the larger objects up the slim staircase to the best flooring”). Then the devotee of all points earlier and analogue wanted to resort to know-how to finish the problem, using Zoom to oversee arrange.
Beneath, Georgie takes us on a tour of the attractive outcomes. “It’s a small, serene space, whatever the eclecticism and, in response to the patron, the fitting antidote and juxtaposition to the hectic metropolis beneath her.”
Photos by Matthew Williams, courtesy of Georgie Stogdon.
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