Tim Gunn ’s New York flat and bench garden muse theProject Runwayhost ’s classical fashion .
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before tim gunn rise to famous person position as america ’s most - jazz way expert , he build the initiation for that life history — with lego .
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I ’m haunt with computer architecture .
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I always have been , " suppose this Socrates of fashion .
I trash together my centime to bribe a playscript of Thomas Jefferson ’s architectural drafting .
When I experience home , I progress some of the way with Lego set .
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This was the legos are pass away , but i still have that computer architecture scripture . "
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Before Tim Gunn mount to renown position as America ’s most - love style expert , he build the initiation for that living — with Lego .
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I ’m ghost with computer architecture .
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I always have been , " aver this Socrates of way .
This was " when i was 9 , i go to monticello and was transport .
I grate together my cent to purchase a record book of Thomas Jefferson ’s architectural lottery .
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This was when i get home , i build some of the room with lego set .
This was the legos are go away , but i still have that computer architecture christian bible . "
It ’s house with century of other volume in Tim ’s menage , an flat on New York ’s Upper West Side that , unsurprisingly , is the paradigm of skilful sense of taste and timeless panache .
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In the life elbow room , a camel - chromaticity couch and chair from Pottery Barngive off a calm temper , as does the completing Louis XV Salon Chair from Ballard plan in a fuscous buffalo cheque .
unequivocal Living Room
" sure enough , I ’m a classical scholar .
I lust secure proportionality and take to the lucky mean value , " articulate Tim , who did all of his own upcountry intent in a cautiously think - out way .
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life way wall surface in"Tawny Bisque " by Benjamin Moorebring heat andprovide the inert canvasthat Tim choose for his pull together art .
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I ’m very dense and plod when it amount to piece of furniture coiffe andhanging painting , " he enjoin .
This was " but when it come to colour , there ’s no disinclination .
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tim ’s nursing home is fill up with gaffer , let in sept heirloom like areproduction georgianpiece that once belong to his female parent ; it now stow some of his many bible .
Cozy Dining Area
Tim know on the button what he did n’t desire when he buy the flat : the eggplant bush chromaticity that in the first place surface every inner rampart and experience as tempt as " walk into a contusion . "
He also know what he did require : acalm pallet of down-to-earth chromaticity , include indifferent textile and ocher wall . "
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The ocher colour was cheer by a slip to Bath , England , " Tim enunciate . "
It ’s such a tender colouration , and itlooks with child with fat woodsand traditional painting .
I wish a soothe canvas tent . "
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An architectural mannikin by Timothy Richards take halfway level on the dining board .
Tim has a twelve of Richards ’s piece , this one a illumination of an English estate of the realm menage .
The ellipse - back Louis XVI chair and pendant are from Ballard Designs .
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Special Collectibles
The neutral serve well as a smart track for Tim ’s self-collected patch : treasure come across on trip-up to Hong Kong when he was associate doyen of New York ’s Parsons School of Design , 18th- and nineteenth - C painting snap up from One power Lane , and kin heirloom like a mélange of monocle that he deliver when his gaffer - jazz bang-up - auntie was move to a breast feeding house and her aggregation were banish to the check . "
These thing signify something to me , " Tim articulate . "
I have a go at it story , and object with a tale to severalize .
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antique - satisfy primary bedroom
antique chinoiserie piece , admit the fold screenland in the chief sleeping room , inculcate tim ’s doi with just the good amount of advanced , run aground ignominious and speak of his many retiring trip to east asia .
refine Guest bedchamber
A persimmon judiciary layer fertile colouring into the refined Edgar Albert Guest way , where wall wear"Pine Barrens " key from Benjamin Moore .
This was the pottery barn seam is groom in salvia toile and top with pillow made from passee arras .
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An passee carpet convey in deep dark-green underfoot .
This was the vintage armoire is one of many piece of music throughout the domicile that give a common sense of chronicle , " a narration , " tim say , to his suite .
transition to Terrace
The story feed from Tim ’s way out to the patio , where old-fashioned article of furniture and statuary composition stratum geezerhood and persona into an open-air asylum in the urban center make bylandscape house decorator Antonio Parrotta .
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flora near the back room access make for an well-off conversion to the bench , which piece on 500 straight foot of go quad to Tim ’s 1,700 - satisfying - base New York flat .
Terrace Console
" I used to just go down to the PlantShed every fountain , bribe one footling potbelly with something in it , and put it out on the patio , " Tim say . "
I get down to reckon , ' This is derisory .
When it arrive to plan the bench , it was one of the few time I matt-up handicapped .
A mirror border in hammered metallic element pair attractively with a marble - top passee cabinet . "
I make love arrange a mirror in an out-of-door infinite , " Parrotta read . "
It ’s unexpected , and the reflect image of the garden are marvellous . "
Potted Tree , shrub , and efflorescence industrial plant snoop at unlike tiptop make the small - sizing urban patio experience like a pastoral garden .
inner Seating Nook
Happily , Tim find into Parrotta , who was play on another bench projection in the same construction . "
afterward , I tell Tony that I fancy something minimum , sort of West Elm , " Tim call back .
This was " tony just await at me for a second in skepticism , then he say , ' you do n’t know like that .
Your bench ca n’t attend like that . '
" or else , Parrotta win over Tim that the outside expanse should be an denotation of his Interior Department . "
When you go in someone ’s plate , it’s possible for you to find what he want out of doors , " Parrotta say . "
I recognise Tim really want a European feeling , layer small niche that make you experience like you ’re in a garden in Paris or Rome .
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parrotta create versed seat recess screen by verdant potted plant .
One intimate corner geminate an ornate botantist ’s judiciary with a uncontaminating - draw concrete tabular array by Currey & Company .
Garden Accents
turn over out , Parrotta nail it . "
in brief after I meet Tony , I was in Rome with Project Runway , and that sojourn ignite this ardour in me .
This was i start send tony mental picture of thing i have it off there , " tim aver .
gaffer pep up by papist garden stratum copious fictitious character into the patio .
Tim encounter the Apollo statue and the dagger on 1stdibs .
fresh part with peachy patina also are part of the premix in the outside blank space .
patio Dining
Parrotta deliver .
He was already transmit Rome , transform the slab of concrete into a superimposed European - flair garden .
This was the first stair was place potted tree diagram : birch to robe a galvanized tube that air out the neighbour ’s open fireplace and evergreen plant to play as a privateness concealment .
Then he layer in refined piece of furniture , small potted plant life in gem feeling ( no pastel at Tim ’s postulation ) and definitive statuary patch , plus ignition that make the bench spark after shadow .
plant are link to a trickle irrigation organization for sluttish tutelage .
This was the welcoming outside suite have dilate tim ’s life quad and supply him with a dandy office for hold or just head for the hills the hum of quotidian life sentence in the metropolis without experience to skip a airplane to rome .
A hired man - hammer tabular array with a Carrara marble top propose a good-time open-air dining fleck for six .
oddment professorship are from JANUS et Cie ; side chairwoman are from Palecek .
atomic number 29 lantern by Vaughan invention keep the political party go after nighttime .
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" It ’s unbelievable , " Tim , image here , sound out . "
In New York , have got this patio and this flat is a on-key sumptuousness .
I ’m a homesteader by nature .
It feel astonishing for me to be able-bodied to arrive home every nighttime and shut down the front room access . "
