Tour the Elegant New York Home of an Acclaimed Hotelier
As owner of the Colony Lodge in Palm Beach, Florida—an legendary, and now buzzy, 1940s assets that was meticulously restored in latest years—Sarah Wetenhall spends plenty of time in palm-shaded gardens, pastel-hued verandas, and rattan-furnished salons. So, when she began renovating her apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the furthest detail from her mind was a tropical pink-and-eco-friendly milieu. And however, a single element of the house calls to thoughts a breezy resort: a 2,000-square-foot personal terrace that brims with climbing hydrangeas and rhododendron trees, where by Wetenhall hosts playdates, video game evenings, and cocktail get-togethers.
“It’s an amazing encounter for New York Metropolis, to be inside and outside at the similar time,” Wetenhall states. “We truly feel so grateful to have this space.” Indoors, however, the atmosphere is decidedly urban and firmly planted in uptown Manhattan, what with its very carefully calibrated mixture of antique, classic, and personalized pieces—and a palette which is both potent and sober. “I feel in embracing where by you are,” suggests the businesswoman and mother of three. “As I go from New York to Palm Seashore, I change, my wardrobe improvements, and specified areas of myself [change] as well.”
When she and her partner acquired the corner device abutting their apartment to develop a additional roomy property for their expanding family, they hired Janine Carendi MacMurray of Area Inside Structure to oversee a major-to-base renovation. One particular of MacMurray’s to start with goals—aside from coming up with a functional layout—was to make the property’s somewhat small ceilings feel loftier. “When I walked into the condominium, I felt like the ceiling was coming down at you,” states the designer, who launched her studio in 2006. “I selected cove moldings with extended projections, and I built the doorways larger.” In truth, the renovated household has a feeling of airy openness, not to mention 5,000 sq. toes of dwelling room.
To embellish it, MacMurray worked in near collaboration with Wetenhall, who has a keen eye for design. “The apartment should really be about the person living there,” MacMurray claims. “And when anyone is as amazing as Sarah, it can make the work definitely uncomplicated.” The duo affected each individual other in distinct methods Wetenhall pushed MacMurray to use a lot more coloration, and MacMurray helped her consumer tailor the space to New York. In the living place, for illustration, we see the distinction of deep reds and corals in the embroidered drapes and pale blues in the slender-line customized couch. A vintage Kalmar glass chandelier and a Lucite espresso table increase a diaphanous contact of glamour. “In just about just about every space in the dwelling, you have some sort of lighting from Kalmar or Murano,” the designer states, referring to the famed Viennese and Venetian houses. “I really like the concept of accumulating.”
Yet another thread that operates through the household is the use of textured wallpapers and wood panels, observed in Wetenhall’s oak-lined office and in the library, which was wholly painted in a striking shade of cobalt blue. “When we bought the job, the area felt very dark,” MacMurray says. “And now, it’s a pretty satisfied household.”
