Pacific Palace

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Organic Panton chairs by vitra (vitra.
com) are paired with a beautiful vintage
dining table with extendable eaves that
can seat up to six.
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storage in the narrow, elongated
kitchen is maximized by long floating
shelves, which hold a collection of white
ceramics. the vintage table seats six
when the leaves are extended.
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A bernardo siciliano’s painting of an
urban landscape is juxtapositioned by a
sitting buddha statue on a black Alvar
Aalto side table (aalto.com). the spiral
brass pendant light in the bedroom
from Kerson Gallery (kersongallery.com)
adds some retro flair.
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in the living room a cappellini (cappellini.com)
sofa pulls out into a bed.
the vintage chair is from Abc home
(abchome.com), as well as all of the
linens and tablewares. the black and
white photograph is laura larsen’s
from the hotel series (lauralarsenphotography.net).
French doors allow
the light to travel thru the apartment.
simple serge Mouille (sergemouilleusa.com)
floor lamps echo the exposed
pipes in the room.
all-white kitchen, red and orange appear to
brighten and cheer up the scene. Wood floors,
a few pieces of vintage wood furniture, and
carefully selected gold and brass accents add
warmth to the seemingly clinical environment.
The biggest transformation was the bathroom. The
room appeared to be a standard and unimpressive
small space. But its one curious attribute turned out
to be its redeeming factor: a low ceiling. “We had no
idea what was going to be up there until we started
demolition. It turns out, there was nothing there,”
she says. So after raising the ceiling and knocking
into an adjacent closet, the bath gained three more
feet in height, and 30 more inches of width, and
became a radically different space.
When Keck opened her own interior design firm
10 years ago, she thought that she would only be
working on commercial spaces. But it was quickly
and seamlessly that she began working on
residential interiors. And like the Greenwich
Village home, most of what she creates employs
DesiGneRs
modest decisions and the bare minimum of
accents. “A lot of designers make spaces that
are just so packed with stuff: curtains, pillows,
flowers, just too many things. I think the most
important thing is not what you do—but what
you don’t do.” Her motto is “no frills,” one
that is perfectly executed in the Greenwich
Village property. “You should have in your
home only what’s beautiful and absolutely
necessary, and nothing else,” she says. “That’s
what I live by.”
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