Incollect Magazine - Issue 8

78 www.incollect.com UPPER EAST SIDE MANSION, NEW YORK Alyssa began her design scheme for a spacious Upper East Side living room not with an inspiration piece, as is often the case, but by imagining how it would be used in the multitude of ways that make up contemporary living. As a setting for large gatherings, small dinner parties, and solitary moments, the room would serve many purposes, and all had to be considered in the furniture plan. After meticulously calibrating the pacing and density of pieces, she selected an elegant mélange of curated furnishings to inhabit the space and make it come alive. Between the windows, a 1950s Jules Leleu walnut writing table is joined by a pair of Swedish flamed birch chairs by Gustav Axel Berg from the same time period. A 1920s bronze Swedish Art Deco table lamp is by GAB. On the wall above hangs a waxed aluminum shelf by contemporary furniture artist Jonathan Nesci. The shelf’s perfect proportions are based on the Golden Ratio, and as displayed here, it becomes a piece of sculptural wall art. A pair of twist-form plaster standing lamps are by Jean-Charles Moreaux, a French architect/interior designer/furniture designer whose style combined classicism and fantasy; from Thompson Gallery on Incollect.com. The medium of plaster is found again in contemporary maker Stephen Antonson’s ‘Earle’ chandelier for Liz O’Brien (also on Incollect.com). A pair of armchairs and a wool