"Any project involving multiple designers requires plenty of open conversation and some healthy design diplomacy, but all the more so in the case of a recent renovation to an Upper West Side town house. When a French-born couple purchased the property as a home for themselves and their school-age children, they enlisted a trifecta of AD100 firms: Elizabeth Roberts Architects (ERA), landscape designer Grace Fuller Marroquin, and decorator Leonora Hamill."
"Ideas bounced back and forth among the seasoned trio. "It was a real dialogue," Hamill reflects of the collaboration. Add to that conversation the homeowners themselves (both aesthetes from art-collecting families), and you had many opinionated parties, often spanning time zones, with unique points of view. The trick became balancing Hamill's maximalist inclinations, shared by the wife, with the pared-back sensibility favored by the husband, which was more in line with ERA's clean-lined style."
A French-born couple with school-age children engaged Elizabeth Roberts Architects, landscape designer Grace Fuller Marroquin, and decorator Leonora Hamill for an 1882 Upper West Side townhouse renovation. The project required extensive conversation and design diplomacy among the three firms and the homeowners, whose opinions often spanned time zones. The design challenge centered on reconciling Hamill's maximalist approach, embraced by the wife, with the husband's pared-back preference that aligned with ERA's clean-lined aesthetic. ERA, led by Elizabeth Roberts and principal Josh Lekwa, focused on restoring Victorian spirit, brightening interiors, and adapting proportions and flow to family life while accommodating bold decorative gestures.
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