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Sunday flashback to the loggia of Villa del Balbia

Sunday flashback to the loggia of Villa del Balbianello built by Cardinal Angelo Durini in the late 18th century. It is perched at the highest point of its gardens which slope dramatically down steep and rocky terrain to the water. Neo-baroque stairs ascend up to the arches and vaulted open space of the central portico, where skillfully pruned climbing fig covers the columns. The loggia is open on two sides and offers two different views: the Tremezzina Bay to the north and the Isola Comacina to the south. #villadelbalbianello #lakecomo #lakecomoitaly #italy #lakedistrict #northernitaly #loggia @villadelbalbianello

#sitevisit: a door including sidelights with bevel

#sitevisit: a door including sidelights with beveled glass we uncovered under 150 years of paint at a special project we are working on with @thomasjayne: the renovation and preservation of an Italianate Victorian house on Long Island. The door is from an 1880s alteration during the Aesthetic Movement and the glass in the top windows, which we removed pane by pane for cleaning, is emerald green and the stops which held in the panes are hung above. #oldlongisland #historicpreservation #aestheticmovement #historichouse

In a new house in Maine, a classically-inspired an

In a new house in Maine, a classically-inspired and operable transom (it’s open in this picture) with curved mullions spans above tall terrace doors which open onto a tubular steel-framed pergola with bamboo screening. Special finishes include terrazzo made with shards of marble cut on the island, bulrush matting, and bamboo panels on interior walls...the ones here in an acid lemon color. Interior design: Alexia Leuschen, @tavernoftheheart; photo: @ericpiasecki

The front door at Mayfields (1920) for G. Hermann

The front door at Mayfields (1920) for G. Hermann and Dorothy Kinnicutt (parents of Sister Parish) by Cross & Cross opens onto a wide and long hallway bisecting the large and gracious living and dining rooms and extending through the center of the house out to the rear lawn. In this photo, you can see straight to the door at the other end with rolling green hills outside! Photo: @jon.wallen #crossandcross #mayfields #farhills #newjersey #countryhouse #frontdoor

Good morning from our NYC project with @katieridde

Good morning from our NYC project with @katieridderinc, where we completely rebuilt and reimagined the interior architecture of an historic cupola, creating a two-story penthouse atop an apartment. This bottom level of the cupola is a family room, carried out in rich colors and lots of vibrant textiles; the custom sofa follows the curves of the space. Thank you @elledecor @stellenevolandes @ingridabram and Nancy Hass. Styling: @annefoxley; photography: @ericpiasecki; see more of this project in this month’s @elledecor in print and online! #peterpennoyerarchitects #nycliving #cupola #renovation #reconstruction #newarchitecture

Early evening summer light hitting the curves and

A detail shot of the exterior of the historic cupo

A detail shot of the exterior of the historic cupola of our New York City project in @elledecor this month. Working with @jhpa_ny, we preserved and rebuilt much of this cupola and reframed the copper dome to allow for a full two-story penthouse structure. We then reimagined all new interior architecture: the round windows are the upper level library seen in an earlier post. Link in bio for more! Photo by the intrepid @ericpiasecki

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Solid and symmetrical Greek Revival 14 Orange Stre

Solid and symmetrical Greek Revival 14 Orange Street, once home to Captain Levi Starbuck...and Orange Street was once home to 134 whaling captains. Built in 1837 by 27-year old housewright William M. Andrews, who had just completed another striking Greek Revival house on Hussey Street, he included classical details like Doric pilasters, a Greek key design, and fluted Ionic columns at the entry porch (originally there were four). Zoom into see the entry porch details. The rich cream and white paint has just been restored to its full glory. #nantucket #nantucketisland #greekrevival #nantucketpreservationtrust

At Harrie T. Lindeberg’s own house, West Gate Lo

At Harrie T. Lindeberg’s own house, West Gate Lodge, set on eight acres adjacent to the grounds of the Piping Rock Club, he built himself a small studio with a drafting room mimicking the clean, crisp lines of the main house and using the same materials: variegated, tawny ledgestone and soft brownish red tiles for the roof. Typical of Harrie’s designs, on the main house and studio, there was no superfluous ornament and the structures were bold and simple with steep roofs. On the interior of the little studio, the crown moldings were designed to look like thick nautical rope tied in the corners with sailor’s knots! photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #locustvalley #countryhouse #stonehouse

Happy July 4th from this festive blue-striped bedr

Happy July 4th from this festive blue-striped bedroom trimmed with red grosgrain! ...this is the bedroom of Peter and @katieridderinc’s daughter inspired by Schinkel’s tented bedroom at Charlottenhof Palace in Potsdam. Swedish antiques, such as the 19th c. chiffonier from Bukowski’s and Josef Frank fabrics are in keeping with the Swedish inspiration. photo: @ericpiasecki

Grosvenor Atterbury’s Gate Lodge (1932), Jordan

Grosvenor Atterbury’s Gate Lodge (1932), Jordan Pond, Acadia National Park. He opted to work in the French tradition — a deliberate reference to the area’s early French Colonial associations. He emphasized the importance of color and materials to harmonize the structure within its setting: he used a seam-faced granite excavated from Cadillac Mountain, weathered and treated pecky cypress, and soft-colored brick from Holland mixed with James River brick from Richmond, VA. He stratified the stone in courses to give the buildings and gates a banded appearance, a technique he adapted from the Le Puys district. photo: @jon.wallen #grosvenoratterbury #maine #sealharbor #jordanpond #acadianationalpark

We are proud to have this project, a complete gut

We are proud to have this project, a complete gut renovation of an apartment, including the historic preservation and rebuilding of a 19th century cupola featured in this month’s @elledecor. We collaborated with @katieridderinc, whose brilliant colors, with lots of reds and blues, invigorate every space. Working with Jan Hird Pokorny Associates @jhpa_ny, we rebuilt the cupola and reframed the dome to allow for a full two-story penthouse with a lower level for a family room and the upper sanctum as a circular library (pictured here). Thank you @elledecor @stellenevolandes @ingridabram and Nancy Hass. Visit the link in bio for the article. Styling: @annefoxley photography: @ericpiasecki #peterpennoyerarchitects #nycapartments #nycliving #cupola #dome #library #moderntraditional #newarchitecture

Library shelves frame an expansive view in a maste

Library shelves frame an expansive view in a master bedroom sitting room for a new shingle style summer house out East we collaborated on with @victoriahaganinteriors. The sitting room is buffered from the bedroom by pocket doors and has a fireplace for colder weather! | photo: @ericpiasecki #moderntraditional #peterpennoyerarchitects #ad100

Shadow play on the facade of 96 Main Street (1845)

Shadow play on the facade of 96 Main Street (1845). Designed by Frederick Brown Coleman for William Hadwen, it is the grandest Greek Revival architectural statement on the island. After the Greeks won independence in 1820, admiration for Greek ideals of freedom and culture and for the order and bold classical massing of Greek temples swept the nation and the faraway island’s shores. The spread of this new style coincided with Nantucket’s most commercially prosperous whaling period and with it more exposure to mainland and foreign culture. The pervasiveness of the Quaker faith and its restrictions against aesthetic ostentation ebbed and architecture took on a greater exuberance. #nantucket #nantucketisland #greekrevival #greekrevivalarchitecture #hadwenhouse #historichouse

Beautiful view towards Harrie T. Lindeberg’s thr

Beautiful view towards Harrie T. Lindeberg’s three arch stone tea house at Gray Craig in Middletown, RI. The original owners, the van Beurens, commissioned Italian-born landscape architect, Ferruccio Vitale, to design the grounds, which included a boxwood parterre, formal walled garden, and horseshoe-shaped amphitheater. | photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #graycraig #rhodeisland #teahouse #historichouse #landscapedesign

Morning in Millbrook, where daylight floods into t

Morning in Millbrook, where daylight floods into the living room through tall French doors and a wide window framed by an arch. @katieridderinc’s saturated palette in pinks, reds, and greens, anchored by an antique Oushak, invigorates the space. Portieres in “swamp green” linen trimmed with pink wooden beads divide the room from the stair hall at left and the mantel is a Sir John Soane design from @chesneysny. | Photo: @ericpiasecki #millbrook #countryhouse #livingroom #moderntraditional #newhouse #newconstruction

The entrance to 570 Lexington Avenue aka the Gener

The entrance to 570 Lexington Avenue aka the General Electric Building, a masterpiece of a skyscraper erected in 1931 by Cross & Cross for the Radio Corporation of America. The architects ingeniously combined Gothic and Art Deco styles in designing the building to visually represent the excitement of radio communication during the modern age, while the colors took cues from neighboring buildings like Goodhue’s St. Bartholomew’s church. As John Cross said, the one motif that ran through the entire design was vibrant energy. Rising up to a chamfered tower with incredible sculptural forms in the sky, the artfulness of the building starts at the Lexington entrance. Shades of orange, buff and tawny-colored brick laid in sophisticated patterns emerge from a rose-colored granite base, carved pink marble door and window surrounds, aluminum diamond shaped details, stylized faces, Gothic-like tracery above the door, and angularly shaped details are just some of the incredible details which make up every surface of the exterior. | photo: @jon.wallen #crossandcross #rcavictor #570lexington #midtown #skyscraper

The final decade of Warren & Wetmore’s practice

The final decade of Warren & Wetmore’s practice produced many incredible projects, including the Madison-Belmont Building (1924-25) on the southeast corner of Madison and 34th Street. Importantly, Whitney Warren was spending a lot of time in Paris during the 1920s, where new concepts of Art Deco were emerging and taking hold. The exterior design of this building was significant to the firm and to the architectural fabric of the city at the time because it was transitional in style. It combined more conventional, classically themed ornament such as garlands of fruit, putti heads, fleurs-de-lys (albeit in a stylized manner influenced by the growing European modern movement), with striking motifs from the nascent Art Deco style seen in the lower level metalwork by Parisian artist-blacksmith Edgar Brandt (1880-1960), considered the greatest exponent and pioneer of Art Deco metalwork. The Madison-Belmont was one of the first instances of Art Deco architectural design applied to a building to appear in the US with Brandt’s unique black and gold metalwork for the transoms, front doors, and grilles in geometric motifs, natural motifs like leaves, and stylized fountains. The first 3 floors of the building contained the Cheney Silk Company’s showrooms, the first successful silk manufacturer in the US, who had previously worked with Brandt to bring his modern, naturalistic forms to their silk designs. This building is a designated NYC Landmark. #nyc #warrenandwetmore #edgarbrandt #metalwork #artdeco #artdecostyle #historicbuildings

Digging through some archives and came upon severa

Digging through some archives and came upon several images from 1916 of various ornamental lampposts by Grosvenor Atterbury for Forest Hills Gardens, his Tudor-style planned community designed with Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. His characteristic attention to detail can be seen here, just one of many amusing designs in wrought iron, this one a jack rabbit and beneath, a silhouetted sunset scene with what looks like more bunnies dotting a hillside. #grosvenoratterbury #foresthillsgardens #lamppost #streetlight #wroughtiron

The heroic main concourse of @grandcentralnyc by W

The heroic main concourse of @grandcentralnyc by Warren & Wetmore, 120 feet wide, 273 feet long, and 125 feet high, embodies the spirit of a triumphant urban entryway. The barrel-vaulted space remains an inspiring example of the collaboration between architects and artists that was emblematic of the Beaux Arts model. The ceiling in a special shade of cerulean blue loved by Warren, the glimmering celestial mural by Paul Cesar Helleu overhead of gold-leaf constellations and stars illuminated by tiny electric lights, and the sculptural decoration of winged locomotives and globes by Sylvain Salieres in the lunettes combine to make this one of the great public spaces in the city and world. | photo: @jon.wallen #grandcentralterminal #trainstation #landmark #historicbuilding #beauxarts

Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter.

The entrance facade of the Charles Thomas and Char

The entrance facade of the Charles Thomas and Charlotte Church house (1930) by Harrie T. Lindeberg in high summer. The roof is typical Harrie: brooding and steep. The huge bay window contains the main stair and two wings to the east and west (partially cut off in this crop) contain the living room and then kitchen and staff quarters. Decoration is minimal, making the house almost austere. This house’s sister, also by Harrie and once home to C. T. Church’s brother, Frederic and his wife Alice (Charlotte Church’s sister!), sits in a plot next door. | photo: @jon.wallen #harrietlindeberg #millneck #longisland #historichouse

@robertstilin’s post this morning of our project

@robertstilin’s post this morning of our project together out East inspired us to share it, too. We restored a 17th century cottage and connected it to a nearby early 20th century carriage house which we renovated as an attached gymnasium, saving the original wood frame which is now exposed. | photo: @ericpiasecki #outeast #historicpreservation #historichouse #historicbuildings #exposedbeams