Incollect Magazine - Issue 10

The Living Room, by the Design Leadership Network, celebrates some of the best-designed living rooms in the world, ranging across styles, moods, and locales. The members of the Design Leadership Network are architects, interior designers, landscape specialists, and allied design professionals, and the images in this book reflect their extraordinary talent for crafting deeply personal spaces distilled through impassioned study and thoughtful creativity, and translated into form, function, and artistry. With homage to the past, a focus on the needs of contemporary life, and an eye to the future, each of these rooms is a timeless expression of people and how they live. 60 www.incollect.com Following an extensive renovation of this 1907 Italianate home in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights, a pair of top talents — architect Gil Schafer and interior designer Miles Redd — transformed its living room into a contemporary take on a traditional salon, outfitted with antiques befitting the home’s grandeur. A young San Francisco couple with four lively children delighted designer Miles Redd with their request for old-school, posh Anglo-Continental decor. Redd dove in with gusto, drawing upon his vast knowledge of the great tastemakers of the past, with nods to Elsie de Wolfe, America’s first woman interior decorator, and Nancy Lancaster, owner of British decorating firm Colefax & Fowler. Animal prints, favored by de Wolfe, appear on a pair of tabourets as well as accent pillows. Deep, low sofas with plump cushions are skirted with bullion fringe. An antique etched and carved Venetian mirror floats above the mantle on walls covered in aquamarine satin. The rug is an antique Persian, requested by the homeowners not only for its vibrant beauty but for its indestructible longevity. In the foreground, an antique German fauteuil is updated in a bold, wide green, blue, and white striped fabric. Whimsical touches, including a 19th-century Anglo- Indian carved camel table are sprinkled here and there. And whether considered campy or a cherished icon of the past, what Anglophile’s house would be complete without a pair of Staffordshire ceramic dogs? Photo: Trevor Tondro, portrait photo courtesy Miles Redd. Miles Redd