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 Peter Dunham’s “The Guest Bedroom”, Modern Matter x Schumacher, and The San Francisco Fall Show. Written by Natalie Aldridge.
The San Francisco Fall Show
The San Francisco Fall Show is just around the corner, and it may be the perfect excuse to make a trip to San Francisco. Since 1982, the annual show has brought together an incredible group of international dealers specializing in everything from fine and decorative arts to furniture, jewelry, textiles, and objects.
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This year’s theme, Métallique Chic, celebrates metal in its many, many forms. Think Georgian silver, gilded surfaces, beautifully patinated bronze, Art Deco chrome, copper, and more sculptural modern pieces. Rather than limiting the show to a particular period or style, the theme offers a wonderful opportunity to consider how the same materials have been manipulated by artists and craftsmen across centuries.
The dealer list includes more than 40 exhibitors, including Charles Plante Fine Arts, Yew Tree House, Maison Felice, Philip Stites, Doris Leslie Blau, Kentshire, and BDDW. There is plenty for the serious collector, but also the joy of simply wandering the booths and discovering something new and exciting.
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And, naturally, we have already studied the lecture schedule. Zac Posen, Ken Fulk, Stellene Volandes, Cathy Kincaid, Elizabeth Lawrence, Madeline Stuart, Young Huh, Nathan Turner, and Meg Braff are among the many familiar names appearing throughout the week.
The show opens with its gala on October 14, followed by show days from October 15 through 18 at Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion. Between the antiques, the lectures, and San Francisco in October, this one feels particularly worthy of the calendar. More information can be found here!
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“The Guest Bedroom” by Peter Dunham for Kips Bay
Color, pattern, antiques, fringe, wicker, and a vintage Japanese obi are among the elements that make Peter Dunham’s guest bedroom at this year’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House so memorable. Exuberant but never overpowering, thoughtfully layered, and wonderfully comfortable, it has all the makings of a room we want to spend time in. Show house rooms can sometimes veer toward the experimental at the expense of livability, yet Peter’s room feels perfectly lived in and entirely representative of his work.
Peter enveloped the fifth-floor space in his new multicolored Jacob’s Stripe, carrying the linen across both the upholstered walls and window treatments. The effect is immediately cheerful, but there is method behind all that pattern. In the north-facing room, Dunham wanted something that would “absorb sound and feel cozy without being cloying” while providing a strong backdrop for art.
From there, things get delightfully eclectic. A vintage iron four-poster bed is paired with an antique English textile headboard, while ceramic lamps by Natan Moss wear custom shades fashioned from a vintage Japanese obi. Across the room, a wall-spanning green velvet sofa trimmed in Samuel & Sons fringe sits beneath flower paintings by Konstantin Kakanias.
It is the mix that makes the room: mid-century furniture, a gutsy Louis XVI armchair, a modern French black marble cocktail table, an early Khotan carpet, wicker, velvet, stripes, antiques, and contemporary art all happily coexist. Nothing feels too precious or overly coordinated. Instead, the room has the looseness and personality of an interior assembled over time.
Perhaps best of all, it actually feels like a guest room you would be thrilled to be given. It is colorful without being chaotic and sophisticated without being solemn. With every piece carrying a story and every layer thought through, the room ultimately feels deeply personal, which may be its greatest charm. Make sure to check out more of Peter Dunham’s work here!
Modern Matter x Schumacher
I have always believed that hardware is the jewelry of a room. A beautiful knob, pull, or curtain finial may be a relatively small detail, but it is precisely the sort of detail that can make a room feel truly considered. Hardware is also the perfect opportunity to introduce something unexpected, funky, and beautiful, yet it is so often forgotten. So I was rather delighted to learn that Schumacher is officially getting into the hardware business.
For its first-ever hardware collection, the American design house has partnered with Modern Matter on an assortment of cabinet and drapery hardware, from knobs and wonderfully substantial pulls to curtain rods and finials. Crafted primarily from solid brass, the pieces come in burnished, polished, and unlacquered brass, along with antique nickel.
The real point of interest, however, is the inspiration behind the collection: William Spratling, the American silversmith and jeweler known for his bold, sculptural work. That influence gives the collection depth and spirit. The forms are strong and architectural, yet restrained enough to feel equally at home in a deeply traditional room or something more contemporary.
It feels like a rather natural evolution for Schumacher. After more than a century spent dressing our walls, windows, and furniture, why shouldn’t they have a say in the knobs too? The Modern Matter x Schumacher collection launches September 30!
Read our favorite articles of the week!
10 Old Design Trends Designers Say Deserve a Comeback written by Nina Derwin for Veranda.
Making Marie Antoinette Offers an Intimate Look at the Film’s Production 20 Years Later written by Hannah Malach for Galerie.
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x Natalie
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