Welcome to TGP Tidbits where we round up the happenings and our musings of the design industry each week. This week we take a look at “At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors,” John Derian x Doing Goods, and Max Sinsteden’s D. Porthault windows. Written by Natalie Aldridge.
At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors
At The Glam Pad, we are hardly known for shying away from color, pattern, and a healthy dose of maximalism. But there is something equally beautiful about an interior that calms the senses, and At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors has us craving just that. The new FREDERIC book, written by Hudson Moore and published by Monacelli, arrives September 16 with an inside look at 22 wonderfully nature forward American country houses.
At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors Photo credit: James Merrell (page 242)
These are interiors shaped as much by the landscape beyond their windows as by what fills the rooms. They are comfortable without being casual, collected without looking overly considered, and refreshingly unprecious. Furniture is meant to be sat upon, shelves are full, and rooms feel as though they have evolved naturally over time rather than been decorated all at once.
At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors Photo credit: James Merrell (pages 238-239))
At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors Photo credit: Laura Resen (page 261))
At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors Photo credit: Ngoc Minh Ngo, Produced by Michael Reynolds (pages 4-5)
At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors Photo credit: Laura Resen (page 254-255)
Among our favorites is interior designer Carolyn Malone’s rural Georgia retreat, where rustic wood-paneled walls seem to breathe history and open kitchen shelves are charmingly full rather than painstakingly styled. In West Texas, Jeffrey Bilhuber mixes fine-boned antiques with contemporary pieces so effortlessly that you hardly notice where one period ends and another begins.
At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors Photo credit: Paul Costello (pages 86-87)
At Home in Nature is a lovely reminder that a room need not shout to have something to say. There is beauty in restraint, in natural materials, in things softened by age and use. We may never give up our chintz and glorious rooms awash in color, but we would very happily retreat to one of these. Be certain to pre-order your copy here!
At Home in Nature: American Country Interiors Hudson Moore. Credit: The Monacelli Press
John Derian x Doing Goods
Leave it to the ever-talented John Derian to merge the worlds of botanicals and rugs. The designer and decoupage maestro has teamed up with Amsterdam-based Doing Goods on a delightfully whimsical collection of leaf-shaped rugs, and naturally, we want the whole garden.
The five designs take their cues from botanical imagery found in Derian’s extraordinary archive of antique and vintage prints. Blown up and translated into wonderfully irregular rugs, the leaves retain all the charm of their original illustrations, complete with delicate veining, curling edges, and the sort of lovely imperfections that make old botanical studies so irresistible.
It is the exaggerated scale that makes them especially fun. Enlarged to such proportions, the leaves become wonderfully graphic and almost morph into something else entirely. They are just the right amount of quirky and are charming enough to bring a little personality to any space. We particularly love the idea of one appearing somewhere entirely unexpected, like a great big leaf that has simply floated in through an open window.
The John Derian x Doing Goods collection is available here now.
Max Sinsteden For D. Porthault
If you haven’t yet stopped by D. Porthault on Park Avenue to see Max Sinsteden’s fabulous summer windows, consider this your reminder. For the French linen house’s inaugural Designer Summer Series, Max transformed five windows and interior displays at its New York boutique into wonderfully layered little rooms.
Our favorite may be the charming jewel-box bathroom on 58th Street, complete with beadboard walls, a tiled floor, pedestal sink, artwork, proper sconces, and, naturally, plenty of Porthault. Trèfles and Fougères appear in fresh shades of green, while even the lampshades get the Porthault treatment.
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It is the sort of window display that rewards a closer look, filled with the thoughtful details that make Max’s work so charming. The windows will remain through September, leaving plenty of time for a proper look. So next time you’re dashing across town, give yourself a few extra minutes on 58th Street. Window shopping has rarely looked this good. But then again, we wouldn’t expect anything less from a D. Porthault collaboration with Max Sinsteaden.
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Read our favorite articles of the week!
Step Inside a Manhattan Apartment Filled with Garden Exuberance—and Plenty of Pink written by Sophie Donelson for Veranda.
A Wonky 16th-Century Farmhouse with Invitingly Layered Interiors written Arabella Bowes for House & Garden UK.
Shop this week’s inspired finds!
x Natalie
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