a giant Andreas Gursky photograph above the contrast
welted down couch; a rich multicolored tapestry covering
a dining table with Venetian chairs, a Maison Jansen crystal
chandelier with a large graphic mid-century modern Alex
Liberman painting as a chaser (see the editorial on this
artist in the first issue of HYLAND). The beat goes on.
These rooms are refined, intellectually compelling, without
being stultified: they are upbeat, they are cheerful, they
radiate joie de vivre, not least because Papachristidis is
expert in his sense of color placement, not to mention
living details: his flowers inhabit comfortably these rooms.
He does traditional interiors lyrically; he does country with
polish; with a nod to Nancy Lancaster's beloved "buttah
yellow': a wink to the Rothchilds' pattern on pattern
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