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Metal and stone: What could be more appropriate motifs for the home of a jewellery designer?
In Tenafly, New Jersey, those natural elements form the basis for an interior design project
that is luxurious yet inviting, dominated by a warm, neutral palette. Home of a New York-based
jewellery designer and curator, this interior design project is a construction of white, minimalist
architecture. Jessica Gersten, the designer behind the project wanted to create a strong sense
of earthiness and connection to nature with natural elements of metal and stone, contrasted
with gold and silver, which is a reflection of the client’s identity. The result is a luxury home
grounded in earth while inspiring an elegant “Zen” sensibility.
“In fashion, it’s about how textures, colours and proportions come together in one outfit. The
same goes for interiors: playing with the scale of a room and how all the different proportions
of the furniture speak to each other, and the texture of the rug and the upholstery and having
the right balance of hard items and soft items,” says Jessica Gersten. “So a little bit of each and
not too much of any one thing.”
That philosophy is evident in the elegant gentleman’s den with a moody charcoal palette,
where the tree trunk–shaped brass- covered Eden centre tables by Boca Do Lobo and a grey
onyx bar offer an earthy contrast to a sofa covered in lustrous, metallic fabric.
METAL AND STONE PALLET
BY JESSICA GERSTEN
