This week we’re revisiting our favorite tales from 2024, like this one:
At Remodelista we love performing as a design courting service. Proper right here’s a modern NYC occasion:
“We found Anshu and Bill all through the depths of Covid by the use of a Remodelista publish,” Adrienne Totoro tells us of Anshu Bangia and Bill Agostinho, the couple who collectively run Bangia Agostinho Construction. “Now we have been drawn to their old-world-yet-modern aesthetic—every endeavor of theirs feels modern with out shedding the integrity of the distinctive development.”
Adrienne is an interiors advertising and marketing marketing consultant and a specialist in retailer visualization and branding (she beforehand headed Chloe’s seen and retailer planning division); her husband, Stefan, works in affect investing and has a strategy with crops. She’s from Oklahoma, he grew up in Wales, and they also acquired right here to the design desk with a complete lot of ideas (plus art work, furnishings, family relics, and potted crops). Anshu and Bill joined them within the house hunt that led to their Brooklyn Italianate brownstone subsequent to Fort Greene park. Not surprisingly, there was a complete lot of unglamorous work required—”the underlying magnificence and proportions have been seen nonetheless your full house required upgrading,” says Anshu. And, positive, there was a complete lot of extreme hopes for what may presumably be.
“What struck us from our preliminary cellphone dialog was their description of the endeavor not as a list of renovation packages and logistics, nonetheless how they wished to essentially really feel inside the home,” says Anshu. “Stefan and I every grew up in areas that are quieter, a lot much less frenzied than city we keep in, and we knew a key parameter might be making a base that is grounding and comforting for us and our family and buddies,” says Adrienne. Take a look at the outcomes of this meeting of ingenious minds.
Photos by Pia Ulin, styling by Hilary Robertson besides well-known, courtesy of Bangia Agostinho Construction.
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Adrienne assembled the furnishings and lighting all by way of.
