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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

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The approach from the southwest to the quarter-circle curved screen wall entrance of Greywalls (1901) by Sir Edwin Lutyens with its flanking chimneys sitting on the famous Muirfield Links in Gullane, Scotland. The cream-colored course rubble walls include curved pieces of grey pantile with dots of red tile set in the window lintels and the roof is covered with grey Dutch pantiles. The great Baroque front doorway with broken pediment and keystone is really the sole classical element the front facade. #greywalls #muirfield #siredwinlutyens #lutyens #scotland #gullane #countryhouse

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The warm, fire-lit studio with its soaring barrel-vaulted ceiling in the F. E. Church (Frederic Edwin) house by Harrie T. Lindeberg (1930). This house and its twin next door were designed by Lindeberg for two brothers who had married two sisters. The husband of this house pursued the arts (hence the studio), studying at Columbia University’s School of Architecture, the Academie Julian in Paris, and the Art Students League. He signed his works F. Edwin Church to avoid any confusion with the famous Hudson River school painter of the same name but no relation. | Photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #millneck #barrelvault #vaultedceiling #historichouse #longisland

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In the faux-bois painted library of a new house inspired by our client’s admiration for the architecture or Robert Adam and the craftsmanship of Duncan Phyfe, gold-leaf bead mouldings articulate the vaults in two domed boom recesses. Classical details are woven throughout the house, such as the anthemia in the frieze above each opening in this room. | interior decoration: @thomasjayne | photo: @pieterestersohnphoto | faux bois graining by: @pgfinkel #moderntraditional #newoldhouse #fauxbois #library #carveddetails

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The stair hall at Ivycroft, Eliot Cross’s house in Old Westbury, originally designed by Gage & Wallace (1891) for Perry Tiffany, and to which Eliot added two wings, a broken pediment at the front door, and this new double-height, freestanding curving staircase. Photo: Mattie Edwards Hewitt, Nassau County Dept. of Parks, Recreation & Museums #crossandcross #eliotcross #oldwestbury #longisland #countryhouse #staircase #floatingstairs #frontentrance

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Crathes Castle, a 16th century tower house, seen at right, is nestled within its series of Arts and Crafts-influenced gardens. Ancient topiary hedges of Irish yew dating from 1702 separate the 4 acres of gardens into a series of eight themed spaces. This is the upper pool garden whose symmetry gives it a sense of tranquility after wandering through the labyrinthine walled garden with lush herbaceous borders. The Upper Pool garden was designed to be viewed from the bay windows of the Victorian wing of the house and the borders are designed to flower in succession throughout the year in a palette ranging from yellow, bronze, orange, and red. The garden at Crathes Castle sometimes described as the Sissinghurst of the North. #crathes #crathescastle #crathescastlegardens #scottishgardens #scotland

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Good morning from this long bedroom hall in a duplex we gut renovated and decorated. The hall is enlivened by the sculptural cast-plaster fluted walls and a barrel-vaulted ceiling! | photo: @ericpiasecki #moderntraditional #hallway #hallwaydecor #newclassic #nycliving #fifthavenue

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A brooding sky hovers over Drummond Castle framed in a stone archway as it perches on part of the Gask Ridge over its expansive technicolor terraced formal gardens. The castle keep dates back to the 15th c. and includes a 17th c. mansion, both rebuilt in the Victorian era. #drummondcastlegardens #drummondcastle #crieff #scotland #perthshire #castle #castlesofscotland #gardensofscotland

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One of the rooms in the Vanderbilt triplex on Park Avenue by Whitney Warren which we visited during our research on the firm Warren & Wetmore. The entire apartment is a study in opulent French taste, exquisite carved details, and sumptuous materials. | photo: @jon.wallen #warrenandwetmore #whitneywarren #parkavenue #architecturalrelics #relic #gildedage

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We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new website (link in bio) featuring new photography, projects, and much more. We are grateful for our incredible team here at PPA, our clients, and all of the talented people who inspire us and with whom we collaborate to produce projects. A huge thanks to @dyaddesign for your thoughtful design and execution of our new site!

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Bronze elevator doors in the lobby of Ely Jacques Kahn’s Squibb Building, 745 Fifth Avenue (1930) by Valerie (Valley) Wieselthier (1895-1945), a Viennese potter and sculptor who studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (Vienna School for Applied Arts) under Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Michael Powolny and was asked by Hoffmann to join the Wiener Werkstätte. Her work, including ceramic sculptures and Art Deco surface designs, is known for its playfulness, innovative expressiveness in color and form, and the sense of spontaneity she imbued in traditional forms and materials. She moved to New York in 1929 and remained in the US for the rest of her life, joining a group of American and European artists, including Rockwell Kent and Paul Poiret to establish Contempora, Inc., a gallery and artist’s collaborative in NY. Her doors for the Squibb Building display her characteristic style: a free, playful design full of movement and energy with abstracted animals, swirls, zig zags, and joy! #vallywieselthier #artdeco #wienerwerkstätte #bronzedoors #elevator #elyjacqueskahn #fifthavenue