New York City Law Firm Project: Art

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“When designing an area in your home or office, sometimes the best ques can come from the art being placed in the space.”

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Designing With Art

Taking your design ques from your favorite art pieces, can make your designing efforts easy and simple. Most times!

Take a look at the colors in the art, observe how they blend in their relationship to one another. What I like to do is find and identify the colors that are represented the least. I like taking from one of these colors and making it the primary color for the room. It will then draw out visually that minimal color in your art work. Then I use the other minimal colors for bold accents. This creates a balanced and beautiful designed space.

Designing a room is much like an artist painting that wonderful piece of art on a canvas. Like the artist, the designer balances between colors and space. Creating a visual pathway to view the subject or focal point in the piece.

When there is no art

When your design project is starting from scratch, there may not be any art to work from. So often,  my clients may not have an eye for art. But love art when they see it on the walls in a gallery, museum or a public space, they appreciate the beauty that it brings. They want that look in their homes or offices, but just don't know how to make it a part of their spaces. This is when I jump in and build a bridge for them to embrace art, helping them to identify what they enjoy and getting it up on their walls.

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“Let your home/office be your gallery  and your gallery be your office/home.”

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When there is no art sometimes you have to create your own, improvise! Nothing can add more value to a space than when you create something yourself for it. Photography (if you are good with a camera) of some place you have traveled, or a still life of an object(s) you just love can work wonders. If you are good with a brush and canvas go for it. It's your space. So create for it. 

I conclude art is your friend when it comes to designing your space. Do not be afraid to use art in your design. It will bring you a sense of continual joy and satisfaction whenever you pause to view and take it in, in your home or office. 

Let your home/office be your gallery  and your gallery be your office/home.

New York City Law Firm Project pt1

Early in the year I was asked to take on a project by a law firm in New York City. They had one request: "make our law office beautiful, sophisticated and save us money doing it, and we know you can do it". It was an easy request. 

This client's assumption of my abilities was based on a referral from a project I worked on a couple of years ago. I had the opportunity to work on several renovations with a client in Jersey City, NJ. This client loved what he had seen accomplished  and wanted the same for he and his partner's law office. 

So like any design project, there is always the unforeseen. Like the two month delayed move out of the tenants occupying the space your client is about to move into; or the client's many change orders requested throughout the beginning stages of the project. I have learned to adapt to the changing winds of each project. Amazingly, with each obstacles comes the opportunity to learn. Each client has his or her's own style in their approach, and they are accustomed of doing things there own unique way. 

Selected paint colors and floor samples.

The demolition phase has passed; the colors and flooring selections have been made; and the construction is well own it's way. New walls have been set and built. And the office is beginning to take shape as we wait for the proper inspections to be approved.

Furniture has been ordered and the staging date has been set. My clients have a true sense of style and an acute attention to the details. We decided that the style of the office would be modern-industrial. My favorite part of the project is finding the right furniture pieces for the spaces. So far so good.

 Stay tuned...

View of what will be the conference room