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"Inspiring Living Rooms of Architects and Designers\nThe world's top designers create inspiring interiors for their clients, but what about the spaces they fashion for themselves? Tour the elegant living rooms of decorators and architects whose residences have appeared in the pages of AD\nAD100 designer Jacques Grange's Paris apartment\u2014once home to the novelist Colette\u2014overlooks the gardens of the Palais Royal. The living room is furnished with a 19th-century chaise longue, club chairs from 1925, an 18th-century desk, and a Jean-Michel Frank armchair from 1930. (September 2007)\nA sculptural staircase framed in polished chrome catches the eye in late AD100 interior designer Alberto Pinto's lively Rio de Janeiro apartment, which was renovated by architect Thiago Bernardes. Pinto designed the sofa, the painting is by Nancy Graves, and the armless chairs are by William Haines. (September 2011)\nIn AD100 interior designer Muriel Brandolini's eclectic Manhattan townhouse, Antipodal Shopperby George Condo is displayed above a midcentury Italian sofa; the cocktail table is by Mattia Bonetti, the vintage light fixture is by Gerrit Rietveld, and the oval portrait is of Muriel's husband, Count Nuno Brandolini, as a child. (March 2011)\nAfter being invited by the Comte de Pourtal\u00E8s to lease a three-story apartment on the grounds of his palace near Paris, AD100 designer Juan Pablo Molyneux refurbished the 17th-century structure at Ch\u00E2teau du Marais with rich tones to suit his grand style. An 18th-century gilt-wood chandelier hangs above a R\u00E9gence bureau plat, a Louis XVI armchair, and a rug from the 19th century; the oil painting is from the 18th century. (September 2006)\nAD100 decorator Michael S. Smith was inspired by 18th-century France when he decorated the elegant Manhattan duplex he shares with HBO executive James Costos. The walls display an Ellsworth Kelly lithograph and an antique overmantel mirror, while Louis XV\u2013style canap\u00E9s, a Jansen sofa, and Louis XVI\u2013style gilt-wood fauteuils mingle with a Chinese low table and Japanese lacquer robe chests. The decorative woodwork is by F\u00E9au &amp;amp; Cie. (September 2012)\nDesign team Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergeylen revamped a flat near London's Victoria station, keeping only the original 19th-century cornices and the oak parquet floor. A pair of brass bookshelves inspired by a Billy Baldwin design for Cole Porter flank a work on paper by Jean Cocteau. The vintage console is by Jansen, and the sofa is by Moschino's firm, Nicholas Haslam. (April 2012)\nAD100 designer David Easton and artist James Steinmeyer gave the living room of their modern Tulsa, Oklahoma, getaway a warm makeover with Venetian-plaster walls painted in a Pratt &amp;amp; Lambert gray and Louis XVI\u2013style slipper chairs upholstered in a crimson silk velvet. The mantel is by Easton, and the armchairs and ottoman are from his line for Lee Jofa, as are the fabrics covering them. (April 2012)\nSandra Nunnerley combined two apartments in a turn-of-the-last-century Carr\u00E8re &amp;amp; Hastings mansion to create a floor-through home on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Richard Serra's My Curves Are Not Mad hangs above the sofa in the living room, which boasts a 12-foot-high ceiling. (September 2007)\nThe New York\u2013based AD100 designer John Barman injected color and 1970s flair into his apartment in a Miami Beach tower. He fashioned the 14-foot curved sofa, and the Thonet chairs are from the '50s. A bright yellow sliding door separates the study/guest room from the living room. (September 2010)\nAD100 decorator Thomas Pheasant used many of his own pieces, including onyx table lamps and leather chairs he designed for Baker, in his classically inspired home in Washington, D.C. During the gut renovation, the designer combined two separate salons to make one 40-foot-long living room. \"It's the first time I've invested heavily in myself for a living space,\" he said. (September 2009)\nThe living room walls in antiques dealer and designer Richard Shapiro's Malibu, California, retreat are sheathed in frescoed plaster, and a 17th-century Italian mirror hangs above an antique Cypriot mantel; Shapiro designed the chairs, the Patricia Roach floor lamp is from his furnishings company, Studiolo, and the wood stools are 19th-century Ghanaian. (April 2011)\nInside a glass tower overlooking the Manhattan skyline, Todd Alexander Romano created a high-impact design for his 600-square-foot studio. Inspired by the bold color choices of legendary decorator Billy Baldwin, the designer lacquered the walls and upholstered the custom-made sofa in midnight-blue. Prints by Robert Goodnough and Josef Albers add a vibrant contrast. (February 2011)\nAlex Papachristidis decorated the Bridgehampton, New York, home he shares with his extended family using luxe fabrics and eclectic finds that provide the newly built home with a sense of history. Gilded 19th-century stools and custom-made sofas upholstered in a Clarence House fabric are mixed with animal print\u2013covered armchairs and pillows. (November 2012)\nAD100 architect Alexander Gorlin created a home for himself inside the Gorlin, a Miami Beach high-rise he designed that boasts sweeping panoramas of South Beach, Biscayne Bay, and the city's skyline. \"The view is so overwhelming that I felt there was some need to anchor the space with color and texture,\" Gorlin said. The playfulness of the space comes from several whimsical pieces, including a sculptural Marc Newson chair and a foam cocktail table by Andrea Salvetti that appears to be made of concrete. (September 2006)\nArchitect and designer Campion Platt wanted to give his wife, Tatiana, a New York home that was in keeping with its SoHo location, but with a touch more refinement. \"When you're looking at a big, open, raw loft spaces like this, the issue is to emulate downtown but with a great sense of comfort,\" Platt said. A palette of white, light gray, and dark lavender was carried throughout the 4,000-square-foot duplex, including the light-filled living area. (September 2007)\nAt his modern Los Angeles getaway, AD100 architect and designer Daniel Romualdez introduced a fur rug, a reclaimed-wood cocktail table by Andr\u00E9 Joyau, and a pair of John Dickinson lamps to help soften the sleek white space. A painting by Sarah Morris hangs on the far wall, the print above the fireplace is by Christopher Bucklow, and the acrylic armchairs are by Paul Rudolph. (January 2012)\nBelgian AD100 designer and dealer Axel Vervoordt and his wife, May, share a graceful apartment in a 15th-century palazzo on Venice's Grand Canal. Vervoordt's strategy was to let the space's elaborate architectural details shine. \"I would say that, overall, in terms of furniture and objects, what we did was take out more than we put in,\" Vervoordt said. \"When architecture is boring, you put in a lot. When it is as splendid as this, you put in very little.\" The designer installed the poplar floor and painted the walls a terra-cotta shade; the 1977 oil painting is by Jef Verheyen. (September 2008)\nIn Atlanta, AD100 decorator Suzanne Kasler renovated her Regency-style house with the help of architectural designers William T. Baker &amp;amp; Assoc. She employed a soothing palette of cream, beige, and white for the living room. \"I like colors with a gray undertone,\" she said. The velvet sofa is from Kasler's line for Hickory Chair, the acrylic tables and curtain fabric are by Nancy Corzine, and the rug is by Beauvais Carpets. (April 2012)\nA stainless-steel wall sculpture by Octavio Ab\u00FAndez hangs in the living room of Nate Berkus's duplex in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, and the Gilbert Poillerat chairs are upholstered in a Clarence House linen. Berkus furnished the apartment in the 19th-century building with pieces he had collected over the years, including many furnishings from his previous home in Chicago. (November 2012)\nWhen New York AD100 designer Penny Drue Baird decided to move her family to Paris for a year, she needed the French apartment ready by the start of the school term. To save time she bought in-stock pieces such as the living room sofas, which were floor samples, and filled the space with antiques she found nearby. \"The way I decorated this apartment was the way the French decorate,\" Baird said. \"When you see something, you get it and then figure out where it will fit.\" (September 2006)\nWhen AD100 interior designer David Kleinberg moved to an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he chose to retain the home's original 1920s architectural details as well as the ornate millwork installed by previous owners; he updated the latter with cream and white paint. The vintage light fixture is by Swiss architect Max Ernst Haefeli, and the painting is by Garth Weiser. (September 2011)\nDecorator Mona Hajj bought her Baltimore apartment in a grand 1928 Beaux Arts building sight unseen. She changed the home's layout, adding new moldings, door casings, and custom cabinetry, and created a more intimate space by reducing the living room by nearly half. An Elger Esser photograph hangs above the sofa. (September 2010)\nBrazilian architect and designer Sig Bergamin crafted a vibrant living room in the S\u00E3o Paulo home he shares with architect Murilo Lomas. Murano-glass vessels are displayed on either side of a Vik Muniz painting, and the sofas are covered in a Rubelli velvet. (April 2012)\nSituated on the top floor of a circa-1910 Parisian building, the trapezoidal-shape living room of interior designer and antiques dealer Jean-Paul Beaujard features dramatic a 25-foot ceiling and a parquet floor. The romantic space includes a chandelier and rug from the '50s, and a Jansen daybed. (September 2006)\nRussian architect Dmitry Velikovsky created a refined yet exotic look for his Moscow penthouse, whose living room features an antique gilt-wood sofa, a Senegalese armchair, and an 18th-century samurai chair; a painting by Viktor Pivovarov hangs above the fireplace, and a Picasso etching leans against the bookshelf. (May 2012)\nIn his petite pied-\u00E0-terre on Paris's rue Jacob, AD100 interior designer Juan Montoya placed Mathias Bengtsson's aluminum Slice chair beside a Scandinavian armchair; the wood flooring is antique, and French doors lead to the terrace. (September 2007)\nArchitect Jorge Elias filled his 17,000-square-foot home in the Jardim Europa neighborhood of S\u00E3o Paulo with extraordinary antiques and images. An 18th-century Russian chandelier, vintage velvet sofas, Louis XV fauteuils, a gold-leafed Hand chair by Pedro Friedeberg, and artworks by Serge Poliakoff and Fernand L\u00E9ger are among the eclectic mix in the living room. 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