with green hedges just outside the window reminding us
of the country setting, even as the furnishings announce
sophisticated urbanity. Thus, high modernist style is
implanted in an atmosphere where one might more likely
expect to see a Morris chair, or, indeed, a Windsor chair.
The dining room is a bold
monument to Art Deco, with
an important Jean Pascaud
wood console from Maison
Gerard and zebra wood dining
table and chairs by Jules Leleu
from Karl Kemp. This room is
fit for a modern day monarch,
so elegant are the furnishings,
set against stone-colored walls
divided into panels, framed
with heavy white moldings.��
The room highlights several
large scale abstract paintings
by Ron Ehrlich from Stephen
Haller Gallery.
The bedrooms are places of perfect repose and yet
they partake of the drama of the more public rooms of
the house. The headboard in the master bedroom is
tall, buttoned and tufted; above it hangs an oversized
abstraction, in red and orange, by Ron Ehrlich. The tall
dado is massive, molded and white; above it the walls are
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