Below: Juan Pablo Molyneux, Paris
evince tranquility, a true, positive (if temporary) exit from
the lives of internationally busy designers.
San Francisco decorator Stephen Shubel found a 400year old house in a tiny village in the Loire Valley, and
there he has created a classic French provincial house,
not missing a beat in the happy conventions of his
adopted terrain. Shubel's house is not simply apart from
the modern metropolis, it is a transport to ancient times:
"Living in such an old house in such
an old village…is like inhabiting
another century," says the designer.
Once part of a convent, the house
is actually connected to the famous
Eglise de la Paroisse de St-Pierre en
Vallee by a tunnel, now blocked off,
but the spirit still flows both ways.
Shubel's spirit is a gifted one. His
living room is white with accents
of tangerine in velvet cushions and
draperies from Sophie Pretelat.
Finally, Los Angeles designer
Alexandra Angle has created what
Michele Keith calls a "Modern
Mooring" all across the continent,
on Cape Breton Island, Nova
Scotia, Canada. Angle's first step in designing an interior
is creating a color palette, and the soft grays, blues,
greens and lavenders of Cape Breton were more than
just miles away from the headier hues of L.A. Her house is
a sturdy cedar-shingled cottage built by local craftsmen
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