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The front entrance of Gray Craig, Harrie T. Lindeb

The front entrance of Gray Craig, Harrie T. Lindeberg’s great Georgian-influenced masterpiece for Michael and Mary van Beuren in Middletown, RI. He used tightly laid thin courses of local pudding stone, giving the facades color variegations in greys, browns, and blues, warm sandy-colored limestone details and trim, and intricate ironwork to embellish the windows. Photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #graycraig #middletownri #newport #historichouse #stonehouse

Mirrored doors conceal the dining room bar in our

Mirrored doors conceal the dining room bar in our project on the Upper East Side which encompassed the gut-renovation and decoration of a duplex within a Rosario Candela-designed building. The bar, which was a former utility closet in the apartment, is faux-painted in zebrawood with a polished tiger onyx counter. Thanks to @galeriemagazine, @jpterrebonne, and @looslips for featuring this wonderful project. Photo: @ericpiasecki; styling: @annefoxley; faux painting: Richard Jordan #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #newclassic #diningroom #galeriemagazine #liveartfully

Spring and green is on the mind....brother Archite

Spring and green is on the mind....brother Architects Eliot and John Cross designed several important houses in the Far Hills area of New Jersey, including Mayfields in 1919 for the Kinnicutt family, a picturesque fieldstone and brick house that almost succeeds in being astylar. The informal rambling plan with story-and-a-half wings projecting at various angles and charming dormers of different shapes and sizes peeking out from the slate roof was a design trick to make the sprawling house appear smaller and more cottage-like. Photo: @jon.wallen #crossandcross #mayfields #stonehouse #historichouse #oldhouse

The view through arched openings from the paneled

The view through arched openings from the paneled living room through the entry with honed limestone floor and into the dining room in a new classical house we designed in the New Jersey countryside. The public rooms of the house are connected with a series of tall arched pocket doors and a vaulted hallway off of the entry leads to the stair hall. Photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #peterpennoyer #ad100 #moderntraditional #newclassic #countryhouse #enfilade

Dreaming of this view! Wide doors open onto Lake C

Dreaming of this view! Wide doors open onto Lake Como from a vaulted entrance hall at Villa Carlotta, the 18th c. neoclassical villa of the Clerici family surrounded by dozens of acres of beautiful mature gardens. #villacarlotta #lakecomo #tremezzo #italy #wanderlust

Delano & Aldrich’s house for Willard D. Straight

Delano & Aldrich’s house for Willard D. Straight (1915) seen through a hazy veil of blizzard the other day with its Wren-inspired attic story bull’s-eyes looking quite graphic against the snow. Swipe to see the house in 1928, photo via @nypl.

Evening at our project in the Santa Lucia Range wi

Evening at our project in the Santa Lucia Range with spectacular views of the mountains. The low-lying house was designed in the spirit of Greene & Greene and Bernard Maybeck with a sweeping slate roof, cedar shingles, decorative rafters tails, exposed cedar fascia and skirt boards, and the goal of the whole structure receding into the landscape. Interior design by @the_wiseman_group; photo: @matthewmillmanphoto #california #roomwithaview #newhouse #artsandcrafts #moderntraditional #newconstruction

Framed by snowy branches (and with the modern buil

Framed by snowy branches (and with the modern buildings behind slightly blurred in the snow!), this little brick house on 58th Street from the late 1850s feels almost stopped in time. Swipe to see it back in the day, photo via @nyplpicturecollection by Percy Loomis Sperr #oldnewyork #newyorkhistory #streetscape #winterwonderland

The front entrance of Wyldwoode, Harrie T. Lindebe

The front entrance of Wyldwoode, Harrie T. Lindeberg’s house for Clyde and Lillian Carr (1917), embellished with a menagerie by metalworker Oscar Bach. The brass fanlight and panels are wrought with many different animals and the front door features bronze panels laid over glass in the signs of the zodiac. Swipe to see up close! Photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #oscarbach #metalwork #frontdoor

Good morning from this circular family room within

Good morning from this circular family room within a completely reconstructed cupola in downtown New York! Here, @katieridderinc’s custom sofa follows the curves of the blue-painted paneled walls. Photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #familyroom #cupola #nycliving

An up close shot of Delano & Aldrich’s whimsical

An up close shot of Delano & Aldrich’s whimsical third-story frieze of tortoises and hares at 1040 Park Avenue (1924)...an example of their inventive use of detail. Large round bull’s eye windows (another D & A trademark) set off the attic story of the building. Until his death, Condé Nast occupied a grand 30-room rooftop duplex with a glazed conservatory along the south terrace. The apartment was the site of epic parties and was lavishly decorated by Elsie de Wolfe with French antiques and trompe l’oeil wall treatments of grisaille moldings, marbleizing and imitation wall paneling. Photo: @jon.wallen #delanoandaldrich #1040parkavenue #sculpture #frieze #tortoiseandhare

A view through Harrie T. Lindeberg’s arched iron

A view through Harrie T. Lindeberg’s arched iron gate wrought with stylized shells and flowers towards his house for Ruby Boyer Miller from 1935. On the garden facade (this view), Lindeberg designed a taut symmetrical facade of Greek revival influence stripped to its essentials. Lindeberg always focused on the artistic dimension of his work, lavishing attention on ironwork details in all of his projects for which he produced full-scale drawings in his office for the artisans. He worked with a number of iron workers and companies, including Samuel Yellin, B. J. Hasselman, Renner & Maras and Marie Zimmermann, and his collaboration with the German-born craftsman Oscar Bach produced some of his most elegant and imaginative details often featuring natural forms, animals and birds in free-flowing fancy. #harrietlindeberg #grossepointefarms #grossepointe #rubyboyermiller #ironwork #irongate

We are thrilled to announce that our esteemed coll

We are thrilled to announce that our esteemed colleague and dear friend, Gregory Gilmartin, is now a partner at Peter Pennoyer Architects. Gregory’s brilliant vision has been evident in his role as the chief designer at PPA for over 30 years. His accomplishments include his scholarship as one of the authors of “New York 1900” and “New York 1930” and author of “Shaping the City: New York and the Municipal Art Society.” We welcome Gregory as a partner and celebrate his genius. The post above reflects just some of his extraordinary designs for PPA projects, all of which he designs and drafts by hand drawing. Photos 1,2,3,6,7: @ericpiasecki; photos 4,5: @pieterestersohnphoto #peterpennoyerarchitects

Peter and @katieridderinc’s house in millbrook b

Peter and @katieridderinc’s house in millbrook blanketed in snow...its cherry red window sashes and doors barely visible in the white out! Photo: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #newoldhouse #winterwonderland

In gut renovating this duplex within a Rosario Can

In gut renovating this duplex within a Rosario Candela-designed building, we reconfigured spaces and added new architectural elements in the spirit of Candela’s original scheme. In the entrance gallery, we designed paneling and new mouldings to wrap around the room and Candela’s curving stair. We chose a tiger-pattern by @mitchell_denburg_collections to run up the stairs and selected other special pieces, such as the lanterns by @hervevanderstraetengalerie, a lamp by Andre Dubreuil, and a wonderful Viennese Biedermeier walnut table c. 1925 with a triskelion base. Thank you @galeriemagazine @jpterrebonne @looslips for the beautiful story on this apartment for which we handled the architecture and interior design. Photo: @ericpiasecki; styling: @annefoxley #peterpennoyerarchitects #peterpennoyer #moderntraditional #stairs #duplex #galeriemagazine #liveartfully

Snow dusted Sloane mansion a few weeks ago...Carre

Snow dusted Sloane mansion a few weeks ago...Carrere & Hastings’ French style facade rises above its rusticated base and is a visual feast of undulating and curvilinear lines...scrolls, cartouches, garlands, and the oeil-de-boeuf transoms in the windows of the piano nobile are just some of the sumptuous carved details. #carrereandhastings #henrytsloanemansion #limestone #frontdoor

We have a very exciting announcement in time for t

We have a very exciting announcement in time for the New Year! PPA is honored to have designed the clock in the newly opened Moynihan Train Hall located within McKim, Mead & White's historic Farley Post Office building. This space was reimagined as a vital transportation hub by @skidmoreowingsmerrill who added a monumental 92-foot-high glass skylight flooding the hall with light. Our 12-foot-tall clock was inspired by the machined angles that are found in the golden age of railroad travel and evokes the best of Art Deco. Its fluted, echeloned forms gleam with a pewter-like finish that will reflect the ever-changing light from the sky above the Train Hall. The design, construction, and installation of this clock would not have been possible without our incredible team at PPA and the great talents we are so fortunate to work with: @hydeparkmouldings who fabricated the clock, Americlock Inc., Tom Maciag @dyaddesign with whom we collaborated on the 5-foot diameter clock face design (the numbers are set in a typeface designed in 1936 for road and railroad signage!), @skanskausa, @paulgoldberger, Empire State Development, @amtrak, @mta, and @nycgovcuomo. First image copyright Empire State Development, courtesy of SOM; video of installation by Adrian Taylor @hydeparkmouldings #peterpennoyerarchitects #peterpennoyer #ad100 #moynihantrainhall #clockdesign #empirestatedevelopmentcorp #adaptivereuse #trainstation

The three bricks all dressed up for the holidays a

The three bricks all dressed up for the holidays and the New Year! These identical mansions were commissioned in the late 1830s by one of the greatest whale oil merchants, Joseph Starbuck, for his three sons, William, Matthew, and George, and built by master mason, Christopher Capen, and carpenter, James Childs, in a restrained Greek revival style with classical porticos and ionic columns. #nantucket #threebricks #historicpreservation #brickhouse

The kitchen, with its custom-designed brass-framed

The kitchen, with its custom-designed brass-framed range hood, in our project included in @galeriemagazine’s winter issue. We enlarged the kitchen by absorbing a former pantry and staff room and opened it onto the adjacent family room with glass pocket doors, making these much used spaces work in tandem. Thank you @galeriemagazine, @jpterrebonne, and @looslips for this great story. Photo: @ericpiasecki; styling: @annefoxley #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #newclassic #kitchen #kitchendesign #rangehood #galeriemagazine #liveartfully

Mott Schmidt’s elegant Regency Revival limestone

Mott Schmidt’s elegant Regency Revival limestone townhouse at 43 East 70th Street from 1929 looking positively ethereal in the nighttime snow fall last week as the blizzard crept onto the city. #winterwonderland #nyc #snowfall #mottschmidt #townhouse

We are absolutely thrilled to see our project in t

We are absolutely thrilled to see our project in the winter issue of @galeriemagazine (link in bio)! We renovated and decorated this wonderful family duplex within a Rosario Candela designed building, shifting axes to amplify flow, adding paneling, raising door opening heights, lowering sills to elongate the windows and increase light, imbuing the spaces with fresh finishes such as light oak floors, and more. In the brilliant blue lacquered dining room, we were able to raise the ceiling and design a gilded cove. Pairs of mirrored harmon hinge doors open into the family room at left and faux-painted zebra wood-paneled bar at right...stay tuned for that photo! Thank you @galeriemagazine, @jpterrebonne, and @looslips for this great story. Photo: @ericpiasecki; styling: @annefoxley #peterpennoyerarchitects #moderntraditional #newclassic #diningroom #galeriemagazine #liveartfully

Trudging around Sutton Place and Square in search

Trudging around Sutton Place and Square in search of unshoveled snow! Found fresh powder in front of #7, first photo. #suttonplace #suttonsquare #winterwonderland #nycsnow #brickhouse

Harrie T. Lindeberg’s exceedingly graceful sweep

Harrie T. Lindeberg’s exceedingly graceful sweeping stair at Gray Craig (1926) wraps around its oval hall...this space was sort of a hinge in his plan with two long galleries bisecting it from the east to the west and a large reception room stemming off to the south which then opened into the main entertaining rooms overlooking the ocean. Photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #graycraig #newport #stairs #spiralstaircase #historichouse

Incredibly inspiring visit to the Armour-Stiner @a

Incredibly inspiring visit to the Armour-Stiner @armourstiner house (1860) in Irvington last weekend, a delectable octagonal house with a two-story dome and unique embellishments made over time by its various owners, including carved flower capitals on 56 columns, cast iron railings with 42 (!) medallions depicting a favorite terrier (named Prince) from the 19th c., and a kaleidoscope of candy colors. On the interior, long-leaf yellow pine and walnut carved woodwork abounds, triangular closets connect bedrooms, elk images appear all over, and an Egyptian Revival music room with 1870s furnishings and a spectacular Egyptian Revival piano is especially arresting. This completely unique structure, born out of the octagon house fad of the mid-19th c...(which was spurred by Orson Fowler’s book, “The Octagonal House, a Home for All”) has been meticulously and admirably restored and conserved by its current owner, architect and preservationist Joseph Pell Lombardi, who purchased the house in 1978, when it was in such a dilapidated state, the structure of the dome had begun to sink and collapse on itself. #armourstinerhouse #octagonhouse #historichouse #historichomes #hudsonvalley