Art De Triomphe on New American Luxury!
Art de Triomphe Featured on CBS December 5, 2010
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Art de Triomphe Featured in Traditional Home December 1, 2010
sweetness and light
When asked to do a feature vignette at the Lampworks showroom in Manhattan, designers generally bring in a cabinet here, a console there, and it’s all a slightly serious undertaking (Albert Hadley has done one). Interior designer Felicia Zwebner, founder of her own firm, Art De Triomphe, decided to attempt her most ambitious installation ever and go outside the box and off the floor.
Her initial inspirations were fall, but not pumpkins and hay bales, and the outdoors. Her love of France led her to ideas of eating outside and vineyards. A little bit of Johnny Depp in Alice in Wonderland and the vision was complete.
photograph: (c) 2010 Dwight B. Tobin
A canvas floor cloth is painted to look like the sky, and the stairs are a rushing waterfall, both by Faux Time Design. Ceramic mushrooms and butterflies dot the faux rock formations. An extra bit of whimsy is the French-inspired taffeta hot air balloon.
Tilt your head 90 degrees to the right and take in the “blue stone patio” with table fabricated by Window 25 and Pierre Deux wheat-back chairs, Kravet fabric (as the tablecloth) with Samuel & Sons trim, as well as the birch canopy. There are so many sweet details, such as the burlap seat cushions also from Window 25; I love the tiny one on the child’s chair. It took a lot of effort and finger-crossing to pull off this wall-mounted scene.
Of course, the light fixtures are the real stars. Hung or mounted at different heights is a mix of new, custom, and vintage indoor and outdoor pieces in varying scale. A favorite fixture was the Vaseline glass-and-iron pendant from 1925. You can see its milky-colored sphere in the center of the above image.
Felicia’s installation could have fit perfectly in our October Enchanted Forest story, don’t you think? It’s a totally fun way to show off the beautiful range of products at Lampworks, and it should be up until late winter, if you get the chance to stop by. Lampworks owner Bebe Regnier says that this sort of display is exactly what draws her to Felicia’s work: “Everything has precise detail. It’s its own little world, like she’s created a movie set.”
The Lampworks showroom is located at 231 East 58th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.
Designer Showhouse dated May 26, 2010
The Wall Street Journal September 10, 2010
As runways were being assembled for the launch of Fashion Week at Lincoln Center the other day, fashion designer Elie Tahari was three blocks away in a glass-walled condominium on the Hudson River looking over an installation of mid-century furniture and textured grass-cloth wallpaper.
Down the hall, Diane Von Furstenberg, another big name in the fashion industry, was working on transforming a sprawling living room with river views into a complete studio apartment with a wavy striped brown-and-white rug, and a bedroom area just big enough to showcase her new designer collection of sheets and towels.
While the models prepare to strut at Lincoln Center, a group of fashion designers working with interior decorators have taken over five riverview apartments at the Aldyn, a new glass-walled condominium nearing completion on Riverside Boulevard and West 63rd Street, and redesigned them.
The "show house of fashionable interiors" is an unusual convergence of fashion, interior design and unabashed real-estate marketing all in the name of charity, timed to coincide with New York's major fall fashion event.
Organized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America to benefit HIV/AIDS organizations and breast-cancer research, it is also intended to launch sales at the Aldyn, a condo development that's hitting the market following a tumble in prices of new condominiums. Developer Gary Barnett already has decided to keep half of the units in the buildings as rentals.
The benefit is expected to attract hundreds of well-heeled fashion connoisseurs to view the apartments designed by such big names as Nicole Miller. It opens to the public Sept. 21, the same day, not coincidentally that sales are due to launch on 150 condos.
Mr. Tahari, working with Malcolm James Kutner, an interior designer, turned a bedroom and study into an understated bachelor pad, following, the same precepts he uses in clothing design. "The clothes should be quieter than the woman," he said, "The house should not take away from the people who live there."
Mr. Tahari brought in some mid-century furniture and bits and pieces of his art collection. The bedroom is dominated by his six-foot-high photograph of Marilyn Monroe taken by Bert Sterne, shortly before her death in 1962. Hanging inside the closets are dress clothes from his collection for young bachelors, as well as a few articles of clothing that might belong to his lady friend as well.
Down the hall, Felicia Zweibner, an interior designer, created an entry room to channel Bill Blass, who died in 2002. It features a black-and-white rug to evoke Mr. Blass's Herringbone patterns, and fox fur pillows, echoing Mr. Blass's fox fur stoles.
Before it opens to the public, the exhibit will host a private reception for fashion designers and guests next Thursday, the last day of Fashion Week. The event was also timed to the publication on Tuesday of a 279-page coffee table book by the council, American Fashion Designers at Home, showing city and country living spaces of major American designers, presented in alphabetical order, lest any egos be bruised. (Assouline Publishing, 2010).
New York show houses often draw crowds of visitors and raise many thousands of dollars for good causes, but they are also a marketing bonanza for almost everyone involved. Designers donate hundreds of hours of work and furniture dealers, craftsmen, home-furnishing companies loan and give merchandise. Mr. Tahari's textured wallpaper, for example, was provided by Phillip Jeffries Ltd, a company specializing in natural textured wall coverings.
The Aldyn is the latest stately apartment building to rise along Riverside Boulevard, on the site of the West Side yards, a neighborhood now known as Riverside South. Work on the Aldyn, envisioned as the largest and most expensive condominium development in the neighborhood got under way as the Manhattan condo market began to stumble.
Rental and sales prices haven't been announced yet but last month a three-bedroom apartment on the 18th floor of the Rushmore next door, also built by Extell, sold for $2.95 million. Mr. Barnett, the president of Extell Development, who is heading up the project said that with the changing market he was now essentially "working on behalf of his investors" rather than himself. The final prices haven't yet been set, but last month a three-bedroom apartment on the 18th floor of the Rushmore next door, also built by Extell sold for $3.3 million.
Still the building, designed by Costas Kondylis, has strong features, including views up and down the river, especially from two duplex apartments with double-height living rooms, and large patios, built on a setback, with private outdoor pools and saunas. The interiors and lobby with onyx panels, and a sprawling spa, with a pool, a basketball court, a squash court and two bowling lanes, were designed by Roman and Williams.
Some of the designers in the exhibition incorporated the views from the apartments into their design concepts. Take, for example, a living room created by Richard Lambertson and John Truex, designers of a new handbag and leather collection for Tiffany & Co., with the help of an interior designer, Patrik Lönn.
The room has dark-brown wallpaper and is filled with modernist furniture and fixtures, and finished with Tiffany crystal, and tableware and silver water cups designed by Elsa Peretti, under a vintage Venini chandelier.
Mr. Lambertson said that the idea was to darken the room with leather-like wallpaper, to turn it into a box that frames the views outside of the river and the George Washington Bridge.
Write to Josh Barbanel at josh.barbanel@wsj.com
he New York Post September 9, 2010
Is A-Rod about to score a home run with Cameron Diaz? Almost exactly a year ago, we brought you photos of the Yankee slugger house-hunting with Kate Hudson. Now he’s scoping out new luxury condos with his latest blond movie star.
The couple just toured a 5,600- square-foot duplex on the 21st floor of the Aldyn, a Costas Kondylis-designed building that has yet to open to the public.
The six-bedroom unit comes with a private swimming pool and hot tub on the terrace — in case its future owners prefer not to share the building’s pool.
The Aldyn is the most recent addition to what is known as “Riverside South” — Extell’s series of buildings on the West Side. The Aldyn boasts great views of the Hudson along with 40,000 square feet of amenities including a squash court, bowling alley and climbing wall and a Kidsville, USA-designed indoor playground.
The building has 286 units, with rental apartments on floors 2 through 10, and condos on floors 11 through 40.
The Aldyn is getting into the fashion biz, too. On Sept. 16, eight apartments on the 14th floor will open as a benefit showhouse featuring top fashion designers collaborating with interior designers to coincide with nearby Fashion Week at Lincoln Center. (The public will be invited starting on Sept. 21 and it will run until Dec. 10. Tickets are $25.)
Participants include Diane von Furstenberg, Nicole Miller and Elie Tahari collaborating with interior designers such as Jonathan Adler and Felicia Zwebner.
Kelsey peers
Following a rather public break-up with third wife Camille Donatacci in July — four-time father Kelsey Grammer, 55, and his new, pregnant girlfriend, Kayte Walsh, 29, have been spotted checking out love nests.
One of the latest is a $5.995 million SoHo co-op at 84 Mercer St. — very different from his posh uptown rental at 15 Central Park West. The 4,500-square-foot three-bedroom, 3½-bathroom loft features 15-foot ceilings, a private, keyed elevator, an in-house theater, a custom chef’s kitchen and eight “massive and original” Corinthian cast-iron columns, according to Core’s listing. Brokers Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes had no comment.
Looks like a keeper
Mexican soccer star Rafael Marquez and his model girlfriend, Jaydy Michel, were the first to tour the Chelsea Skyhouse at 213 W. 23rd St., once a dicey YMCA until its 2004 condo conversion. The five-bedroom, 4½-bathroom, 6,000-square-foot triplex is selling for $10 million. The unit, which comes with “no neighbors and four exposures,” according to the listing, had a $5 million renovation and includes a 30-foot atrium, six private terraces and views of the Hudson River and Empire State Building.
Felicia Zwebner's Home Featured In
Bergen Health & Life April/May 2010
"Where Designers Dwell - A Peek Inside The Bergen Abodes Of 5 Local Pros"
ART DE TRIOMPHE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN
DESIGNER SHOWHOUSE OF NEW JERSEY
APRIL 25TH - JUNE 6TH 2010
Felicia’s inspiration for this bedroom has come from a recent trip to England. In England she visited many places from Blenheim Palace to the Victoria & Albert Museum. Felicia's bedroom has an understated elegance that is historically referenced with a timeless appeal. Felicia chose a traditional bed that was antiqued and handpainted similiar to the beautiful European beds that grace the homes of aristocracy. Since the 17th century trade had greatly expanded to Asia and the English became fascinated with orientalism. Felicia chose to add Asian elements from bedside tables and lamps to an 18th century Gracie screen. The ceiling and newly installed moldings are painted with an English paint which gives a rich feel to the space. The hemp walls evoke a sense of quite comfort. With careful attention to detail, Felicia has meticulously worked to make this elegant room approachable and inviting. Come see how Felicia has creatively blended past and present.
The showhouse is open to the public from Sunday April 25th through Sunday June 6th. For more information please visit the website www.thedsnj.com. Felicia welcomes the opportunity to meet with you.
Art De Triomphe Selected For Top Design in Kitchen Showcase
Design NJ February/March 2010
Art De Triomphe featured in (201) Magazine Fall 2009
Art De Triomphe's Room Exclusively Selected From Rumson Showhouse
Featured In Health & Life Magazines
Art De Triomphe participates in Stately Homes By The Sea Designer Showhouse
Sheep’s Run in Rumson, New Jersey
April 28th – May 31st 2009
Art De Triomphe featured on online spotlight for Design NJ magazine, April /May 2009
http://www.designnewjersey.com/design_directory/spotlight.cfm?id=75/
Cover Feature
North Jersey Homes
Published by the Record/ Herald News
The cover story features Felicia Zwebner’s Designer showroom entitled “ The Art of Dressing” from the Designer Showhouse of New Jersey. The cover story is titled “Closets from Venus and Mars”
Art De Triomphe Featured in “Teaneck Suburbanite” April 22, 2009
“Local Designer Felicia Zwebner assists show house”
Television Feature - Channel 4-NBC, Open House NYC, October 26, 2008
Program may be viewed at: http://lxtv.com/openhousenyc/video/9181
Radio Feature - Wor radio 710 am, Joan Hamburg, October 2008
Announces Art De Triomphe’s “ The Art of Dressing” as a must see at the Designer Showhouse of New Jersey
