EL DORADO:
Eclectic Resolutions Across a Century
The clients, an attorney and a design industry professional, came into our collaboration with a high level of familiarity with and proficiency at understanding the issues that often confront a renovation and interior design process; they had an existing and eclectic collection of vintage furniture, and a modern sensibility that they wanted to inject into the existing historic architecture.
We approached the project through the lens of resolving seemingly contradictory tensions. The clients wanted to enlarge the kitchen but without expanding its footprint; they wanted to reconnect the rooms—previously an old-fashioned layout with service doors and long corridors—without losing the feeling of a classic structure; and they wanted to create a boundary between old and new without artificially demarcating existing and innovative.
Photography by Nicholas Venezia.
The solution was surgical and volumetric. The kitchen stayed in the same location, with the same footprint, but now feels open and airy thanks to a complete reorientation of its elements and the addition of striking new cabinetry, installed in a syncopated rhythm.
