Instagram – Peter Pennoyer Architects

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#tbt to Grosvenor Atterbury’s soaring, 25-foot high vaulted library for Edith and Ernesto Fabbri, 7 East 95th Street (1917), constructed of wood paneling (c. 1400s) removed from the ducal palace in Urbino, Italy, and shipped to the US during WW1. | photo: @jon.wallen #grosvenoratterbury #uppereastside #historichouse #mansion #library #vaultedceiling

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Another room from our new Czech Cubist and Arts & Crafts-inspired house project for a collector of 20th c. and contemporary art in January’s @archdigest which we are so excited to see featured. This is the double-height oak-paneled library where the faceted “ceiling and mantelpiece riff on Czech Cubist forms while mechanized Studio Drift Shylights flutter overhead.” This project was the result of collaborations with so many talented artists, craftspeople, our incredible team at PPA, including Gregory Gilmartin, who designed the house, and of course our inspiring client. | Landscape Architecture: @reedhilderbrand |Thank you @archdigest @amyastley and @samuelcochran for his wonderful writing on this project | styling: @michaelreynoldsnyc | photography: @williamwaldronphoto

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So thrilled to see our project, Rowdy Meadow, in @archdigest’s January issue (link to story in bio!). The massing of this new house we designed for our client, a collector of 20th c. and contemporary art, draws on the Arts & Crafts tradition with stucco walls, stone details, and a slate roof, but the design also embraces the crystalline aesthetic of the briefly lived style Czech Cubism (1911-14). This period is distinguished by prismatic forms and was the precursor to German Expressionism and Art Deco. The pool projects out of the ground as the land falls to the meadow below supported by massive blocks of granite in an echelon arrangement inspired by the work of Carlo Scarpa. This project was the result of collaborations with so many talented artists, craftspeople, our incredible team at PPA, including Gregory Gilmartin, who designed the house, and our client, who encouraged us to dream. | Landscape Architecture: @reedhilderbrand |Thank you @archdigest @amyastley and @samuelcochran for his wonderful writing on this project | photography: @williamwaldronphoto | styling: @michaelreynoldsnyc #peterpennoyerarchitects #ad100

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Good morning from this warmly paneled NYC room designed by Cross & Cross, where the architect brothers, who enjoyed working with antique building materials and fragments, purchased oak woodwork from and old English room by Sir Christopher Wren and incorporated it in this room’s walls. While Wren’s room was smaller, the Crosses designed near identical wood panels to add to his and complete their room. | photo: @jon.wallen #crossandcross #fireplace #library #woodpaneling #cozy #wintertime #historicbuildings

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We are so excited to be included in the @archdigest #2020AD100 and honored to be among so many great talents. Congratulations to all of the honorees and new additions! Link in bio to see the list. Thank you @archdigest @amyastley @samuelcochran @alevasseur1 @janekeltnerdev #archdigest #ad100 #2020ad100

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The comfortable family room in an Upper East Side duplex we gut renovated and collaborated on with @stevengambrel is enveloped in warm Scottish knotty pine. We connected the main entertaining rooms and the kitchen with wide sliding doors to create a more relaxed and informal relationship between the spaces. | photo: @douglasfriedman via @elledecor #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #fifthavenue #nycapartments #nycliving #familyroom

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Looking up towards the Tribune at @pitzhanger with its marbled paint and warm light coming through the amber-colored glass. Here, Sir John Soane choreographed the visitor’s entrance experience so that a very narrow space in the initial front vestibule finds release in the double-height Tribune. Plus, his mastery of light with the colored glass enriches the marbled paint and the whole effect. #pitzhanger #pitzhangermanor #sirjohnsoane #england

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In Peter and @katieridderinc’s colorful bedroom in their house in Millbrook, the Queen-Anne-styled japanned secretary is one of the pieces that takes center stage. Peter and Katie were drawn to its vibrant green color which complements the brilliant colors in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Donegal carpet. | photo: @ericpiasecki #moderntraditional #antiques #auctionfinds #countryhouse #ad100

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The cozy wood paneled library of the C. T. Church house by Harrie T. Lindeberg, from 1930. Both on the interior and exterior of this house, Lindeberg kept decoration to a minimum: molding profiles, cabinets, and wrought iron stair railings were sleek and stylized. This house, now onto its fifth owner, has been decorated by Markham Roberts @markhamroberts. | photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #millneck #longisland #library #oldhouselove

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#tbt to the lobby of the RCA Victor building aka 570 Lexington Avenue, where, as architect John Cross said, he and his brother, Eliot Cross, “struck out into the future as far as imagination could penetrate. It was a job in which one does his own dreaming and creating rather than conforming to the classic creation of masters.” Art Deco stylized details abound and the architects strove to create a rippling effect by having stabs of light emanate from hidden sources and bounce off the bright surfaces of pink marble walls and aluminum, groin-waulted ceiling, etched with bolts and radio waves. | photo: @jon.wallen #crossandcross #rcavictor #570lexington #skyscraper #lobby #artdeco

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69 Mount Street, on the corner of Rex Place in Mayfair, was built to designs by Balfour and Turner between 1896-7 and was initially reserved as a stable for Lord Windsor who lived opposite at no. 54. Ultimately the charming building was turned into a neo-Georgian house for Viscount Sudley in 1933 by architects W. J. Kieffer and H. S. Fleming. #doorsoflondon #london #mayfair #mountstreet

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A serene corner in a wonderful townhouse project with @matthewpatricksmyth where we reconstructed the entire house behind a restored facade. The cornice in the sitting room is fluted with acanthus leaf details to capture the soaring height of the space. | photo: John Gruen #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #newconstruction

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The Eating Room at @pitzhanger was designed by George Dance in 1768 with John Soane working on it as his apprentice. The color scheme is Soane’s. Soane retained this wing of the house designed by Dance and expanded the house with a new main block and rooms in his more radical, abstract approach. #pitzhangermanor #sirjohnsoane #johnsoane #ealing

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The breathtaking sweeping Tulip Stairs at the Queen’s House (1616-1635) by Inigo Jones, the first centrally unsupported helical stair in England with its wrought iron rail restored to its original smalt blue. #inigojones #queenshouse #tulipstairs #england #helicalstaircase #spiralstaircase #cantilever

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The northeast entrance facade of the Ruby Boyer Miller house by Harrie T. Lindeberg – the opposite side of the house seen in the post from 3 days ago. Lindeberg’s commitment to simplicity is evident here, in this spare whitewashed gable end. We love the globe-like oculus in the attic story. Photo from: The Domestic Architecture of H.T. Lindeberg #harrietlindeberg #grossepointefarms #brickhouse #whitewashedbrick

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We are so honored to win a Stanford White Award @classicist_org in the category of new construction, residential architecture for our new classical house and outbuildings in New Jersey. Thank you to our amazing team at PPA, our clients, @flowerconstruction and @miranda.brooks.gardens. We are proud to collaborate with such talented people to create lasting beauty! | Photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #stanfordwhiteawards #icaa #newclassicalarchitecture

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The garden facade of Harrie T. Lindeberg’s stylish house (1935) designed for Ruby Boyer Miller in the suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms. The house is entirely symmetrical and the garden facade is stripped to the essentials of its Greek revival influence. | photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #grossepointe #grossepointefarms #rubyboyermiller #brickhouse #americanhouse

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A detail of a squinch with beautiful fluting on the facade of 18 East 94th Street. This Beaux Arts house is one of four in a row by Van Vleck & Goldsmith from 1899. The limestone house features a two-story curved oriel and its entrance is flanked by large console brackets which, with corbels, carry the oriel fronting the second and third stories. #uppereastside #carnegiehill #beauxarts #historichouse #orielwindow #curbed

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The stair at Horace Walpole’s @strawbhillhouse, built in 1752-3, and designed by Richard Bentley. The stair was based on the library staircase at Rouen Cathedral and hung with stone-colored trompe l’oeil Gothic paper mimicking tracery – a design copied from the tomb of Prince Arthur in Worcester Cathedral which came from a book rather than seeing it in person. The balustrade has a carved antelope holding a shield at every newel post. Photo: Kilian O’Sullivan courtesy of @strawbhillhouse #strawberryhill #strawberryhillhouse #twickenham #england #horacewalpole

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#tbt to the vaulted second floor gallery in a new country house we designed which is lit by a laylight at the center of a handkerchief dome. The star motif in the laylight is a nod to our client’s Texas heritage. The next image, a computer generated wire diagram, reveals the various geometries of the vaulted spaces in the house and how they relate to each other. This space is expansive but feels intimate with warm interior decoration by @thomasjayne and it is used as a sitting area and gallery for our client’s nineteenth century American art and Federal-style furniture. | photo: @pieterestersohnphoto #moderntraditional #newhouse #ad100 #vaultedceiling #newclassicalarchitecture #peterpennoyerarchitects #classicalhouse #countryhouse

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The amazing Galleria Grande by Italian architect and stage designer Filippo Juvarra at the Venaria Reale which was built by Duke Carolo Emanuele II of Savoy. Entering the space by parting a curtain, Juvarra’s work stuns with its scale, decoration, and the effects of light coming in through the “eyelets” in the vaulted ceiling. #filippojuvarra #galleriagrande #venariareale #turin #italy #baroquearchitecture #baroquedesign

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The porte-cochere at James and Florence Burden’s 1902 mansion at 7 East 91st Street by Warren & Wetmore, a wedding present from the bride’s parents, Emily Vanderbilt and William D. Sloane (who owned the immense country cottage, Elm Court, in Lenox, MA). This house combines the massing, simplicity and rusticated base of an Italian palazzo with the sculptural detail of a Parisian hotel. The main entrance was situated through a small garden that adjoined the house next door, by Carrere & Hastings, and owned by Mrs. Burden’s sisiter. Here, heavy wooden doors at the street opened to reveal a porte-cochere that led back to the canopied entrance to the house to the west; the driveway then curved back out to the street through the garden to the east. | photo: @jon.wallen #warrenandwetmore #burdenmansion #oldnewyork #historicbuilding #portecochere #frontdoor #gildedage

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A colorful and cozy weekend spot in our bedroom at last spring’s @kbshowhouse where our palette was inspired by the documentary wall and curtain upholstery fabric (@schumacher1889 ‘s Le Castellet) and injected with a lemony twist! | photo: @ericpiasecki #kipsbayshowhouse19 #bedroomdecor #bedroom #peterpennoyerarchitects

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The northern entrance facade of Electra Havemeyer Webb (founder of the Shelburne Museum) and J. Watson Webb’s Brick House by Cross & Cross. The brother architects, John and Eliot, resurrected and added new additions to the Webbs’ dilapidated mid-1800s brick house set on 700 acres in Shelburne and with amazing vews of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks-you can catch a glimpse to the right in this photo. This new northern entrance wing rotated the arrival from the west and allowed for a more impressive entrance hall and flow between entertaining rooms. It also masked the heft of the house (20 bedrooms) sprawling behind. This rambling and warm house, filled with Electra’s collections of Americana, was beloved by the Webbs for years. | photo: @jon.wallen #crossandcross #brickhouse #oldhouse #shelburnefarms #shelburne #shelburnemuseum #vermont #fall