Bridge For Design November Issue
Inside the November issue we have the latest from the world of interior design. We look around the Candy Brothers’ luxury penthouse in Monte Carlo. We explore the colourful home of Liza Bruce and Nicholas Alvis Vega in India. We hear about the culture shock when Anne-Marie Midy and Jorge Almada moved from Mexico to Belgium. Design projects by Axis Mundi in New York, Phillip Silver in San Francisco and Coffinier Ku Design in Soho. Other designers included in our November issue; Laura Hammett, Robert Angell, Michael Wolk, Fiona Kelly, Sera Hersham-Loftus, Roger Oates and more. Also included is the brand new Love & Light catalogue, a company well known for their beautifully designed, hand painted and handcrafted lamps and shades.
Inside the November issue we have the latest from the world of interior design. We look around the Candy Brothers’ luxury penthouse in Monte Carlo. We explore the colourful home of Liza Bruce and Nicholas Alvis Vega in India. We hear about the culture shock when Anne-Marie Midy and Jorge Almada moved from Mexico to Belgium. Design projects by Axis Mundi in New York, Phillip Silver in San Francisco and Coffinier Ku Design in Soho. Other designers included in our November issue; Laura Hammett, Robert Angell, Michael Wolk, Fiona Kelly, Sera Hersham-Loftus, Roger Oates and more. Also included is the brand new Love & Light catalogue, a company well known for their beautifully designed, hand painted and handcrafted lamps and shades.
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Along with Swedish and Italian antiques, Phillip Silver incorporated his own contemporary designs - including the armless chairs and acrylic tables - to summon a stylish living room<br />
San Francisco design project<br />
PHILLIP SILVER<br />
Refined exuberance runs through<br />
a glamorous transformed space<br />
WORDS ANH-MINH LE | PHOTOGRAPHS MATTHEW MILLMAN<br />
I<br />
n the hands of a gifted interior designer, no room<br />
is a lost cause. Phillip Silver’s overhaul of the<br />
living room in the 2015 San Francisco Decorator<br />
Showcase; a once drab white and battleship grey<br />
space that, he laments, was ‘depressing’ proves this<br />
point.<br />
“I have always perceived the light in San Francisco<br />
to be Parisian in quality: gentle on colour and very moody,” Silver notes.<br />
“So to me it was logical to commit to these elements and evoke a room that<br />
was full of romance, overlaid with Parisian glamour.”<br />
To that end, he introduced a sophisticated ivory and mocha scheme that<br />
popped with hot pink and burnt orange. The vibrant hues were inspired by<br />
Yves Saint Laurent’s Rive Gauche label.<br />
The furnishings reflected a range of provenances from Silver’s own designs<br />
to the 18th-century Italian commodes. “I was educated to see design with<br />
depth, meaning that all beautiful design, regardless of its age or era, will<br />
74 <strong>Bridge</strong> for <strong>Design</strong> <strong>November</strong> 2015
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