Black and White

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black and white. Perfect for the kitchen, the bath, a foyer or a gracious curving stair. Perfect even for circus tents, or the illusion of one . . .</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvqN7FQnICtfwA2k4w1fWVnU1C5EPfUTE7H7cfmoka3mUrjaHKwR18pUdY_n38VQk71Aiu91U1JuwOtBDzfMRg6TQAWU4cfgzh21PttX0vUJSc7EX0TvZowTpXjPKTImqwegoh2LvJ-Q/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.jean-louis-deniot-chicago-apartment-07-kitchen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvqN7FQnICtfwA2k4w1fWVnU1C5EPfUTE7H7cfmoka3mUrjaHKwR18pUdY_n38VQk71Aiu91U1JuwOtBDzfMRg6TQAWU4cfgzh21PttX0vUJSc7EX0TvZowTpXjPKTImqwegoh2LvJ-Q/s640/item6.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.jean-louis-deniot-chicago-apartment-07-kitchen.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I told Jean-Louis [Deniot] I wanted the apartment to be beautiful without a stick of furniture in it," the wife says. "You had to say, 'Ooh,' even when it was completely empty."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prewar apartment in Chicago.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.deniot.com/">Jean-Louis Deniot</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Dan Shaw.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The French Connection" produced by Robert Rufino.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (December 2011).</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJigQ67yk8RHCSx3cQjI7DKh_mabOGsmBKwi45QyyJ2SUW8z_RQhbhBWeggJd9nMex35ZYE0I2v2fswYULhfU03eKDlDSXxy5kze5fJRClqcnrkpgtKskgUBlSnaJ2TXhBR3m3dbZAH5I/s1600/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesEDDec2008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJigQ67yk8RHCSx3cQjI7DKh_mabOGsmBKwi45QyyJ2SUW8z_RQhbhBWeggJd9nMex35ZYE0I2v2fswYULhfU03eKDlDSXxy5kze5fJRClqcnrkpgtKskgUBlSnaJ2TXhBR3m3dbZAH5I/s640/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesEDDec2008.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The walls of the bathroom and adjacent laundry are covered in <a href="http://www.clarencehouse.com/">Clarence House</a>'s Large Stripe wallpaper applied both vertically and horizontally, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the checkerboard ceramic-tile floor is American Olean."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chicago apartment of decorator <a href="http://www.branca.com/">Alessandra Branca</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Thibault Jeanson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Styled by Carlos Mota.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Return Engagement" text by Jan Parr.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/">Elle Decor</a> (December 2008).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5tS1MCz_5ezXwm2hqzIj3yy_xhb97gen0zp1b6lAGiDVC0VoKn0fvalh6N5HjcvyLUGNhXoPMyfACqlSF0Z0S9bfkkkgRdYrAwJVbcJFkYkUdx1GDxsBDl8mDQZMMqgbIuOP7d2q9vgo/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.shelton-mindel-manhattan-01-foyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5tS1MCz_5ezXwm2hqzIj3yy_xhb97gen0zp1b6lAGiDVC0VoKn0fvalh6N5HjcvyLUGNhXoPMyfACqlSF0Z0S9bfkkkgRdYrAwJVbcJFkYkUdx1GDxsBDl8mDQZMMqgbIuOP7d2q9vgo/s640/item0.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.shelton-mindel-manhattan-01-foyer.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Iconic photographs of New York greet visitors in the foyer; the plasterwork ceiling and picture lights were designed by <a href="http://www.sheltonmindel.com/">Shelton, Mindel and Associates</a>."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Historic Manhattan apartment.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Renovation and furnishings by <a href="http://www.sheltonmindel.com/">Shelton, Mindel and Associates</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Joshua McHugh.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Dan Shaw.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Leading Role" produced by Robert Rufino.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (November 2011).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5QWucCS-TUxwc2YJspBXklJBnwLWuJC4lo82IsOXd7x_47Z7laBvNpOCs_jSgseewOcKBIHQOpFD-Z9YqkX7qplzKV0X6lqIR7cn30sLqTbv4To2iPqm93geffCjv7O2UOyke2jW4Bo/s1600/item01.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.then-and-now-01-entry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5QWucCS-TUxwc2YJspBXklJBnwLWuJC4lo82IsOXd7x_47Z7laBvNpOCs_jSgseewOcKBIHQOpFD-Z9YqkX7qplzKV0X6lqIR7cn30sLqTbv4To2iPqm93geffCjv7O2UOyke2jW4Bo/s640/item01.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.then-and-now-01-entry.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oval entrance hall with a ceiling dome. Belgian marble tiles.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Francisco apartment of Gary and O.J. Shansby.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.suzannetuckerhome.com/">Suzanne Tucker</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by <a href="http://www.skurman.com/">Andrew Skurman</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Peter Haldeman</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Pieter Estersohn.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Wish Fulfillment" produced by Howard Christian.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2012).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRJ2fE0k-tTPvQwUInN9OkwpWZeonNgwNuMSJb_s84A__kIodzmt_fL4gznrFfqxgTbAFFna7AUEttx-s1JZ-5QT4-QrN-fl8GAqLsFBzirhCnrGgVcW75BogsNkLEQYDZnx_fI2rbr8g/s1600/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesHBSept2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRJ2fE0k-tTPvQwUInN9OkwpWZeonNgwNuMSJb_s84A__kIodzmt_fL4gznrFfqxgTbAFFna7AUEttx-s1JZ-5QT4-QrN-fl8GAqLsFBzirhCnrGgVcW75BogsNkLEQYDZnx_fI2rbr8g/s640/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesHBSept2011.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Designer <a href="http://www.martynlawrencebullard.com/">Martyn Lawrence Bullard</a> creates an MGM musical moment with a checkerboard floor and a coordinating staircase in high-contrast black and white. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'The contrast creates a sense of drama,' he says."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walls are Decorators White by Benjamin Moore.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.martynlawrencebullard.com/">Martyn Lawrence Bullard</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tim Street-Porter.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Drama, Dahling" written by David A. Keeps.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (September 2011).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlWUVQjVY-S4f_90u8ZGHDemapL8-z_AK_hD3WP8Ctz5xly-wUXMLKcAghuzg_-kqHamJFBc4O7HQCLVbnkVx_qsqsNBFLulfiM4QxkNwuJv3cMEGve-Ypl-xTYoVJI_GfIRqUiOM-DAc/s1600/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesDominoMay2008Two.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlWUVQjVY-S4f_90u8ZGHDemapL8-z_AK_hD3WP8Ctz5xly-wUXMLKcAghuzg_-kqHamJFBc4O7HQCLVbnkVx_qsqsNBFLulfiM4QxkNwuJv3cMEGve-Ypl-xTYoVJI_GfIRqUiOM-DAc/s640/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesDominoMay2008Two.jpg" width="444" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A striped tent on the terrace "shelters outdoor tools and extra furniture."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Designer <a href="http://www.stephenshubeldesign.com/">Stephen Shubel</a>'s San Francisco "office and overnight getaway."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by William Abranowicz.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Ruth Graham.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Master of Illusion" produced by Dara Caponigro.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dominomag.com/">Domino</a> (May 2008).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOk6niuMLvuNiXegQn-sANyxoI4SIQwadrGcHy_P4GXjQ_N5n-S4coKo3l03Xxb1U70o48ELzl00mFq7olLt2UiAlUgGUEQ-Zhnv-Z0GyqnRBzLbNLOUDhH6gT5YjqN2bto1cSVVWncms/s1600/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesDominoMay2008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOk6niuMLvuNiXegQn-sANyxoI4SIQwadrGcHy_P4GXjQ_N5n-S4coKo3l03Xxb1U70o48ELzl00mFq7olLt2UiAlUgGUEQ-Zhnv-Z0GyqnRBzLbNLOUDhH6gT5YjqN2bto1cSVVWncms/s640/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesDominoMay2008.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Don't let your eyes deceive you: the ceiling of the studio's bathroom is completely, 100 percent flat. Shubel hired local decorative painter <a href="http://www.willemrackestudio.com/">Willem Racke</a> to paint stripes that make the room . . . seem like a dramatically peaked tent, inspired by the circus-like storage tent on the terrace. . . . A matching curtain hides not only a washer and dryer, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but the studio's trove of research materials."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Designer <a href="http://www.stephenshubeldesign.com/">Stephen Shubel</a>'s San Francisco "office and overnight getaway."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by William Abranowicz.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Ruth Graham.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Master of Illusion" produced by Dara Caponigro.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dominomag.com/">Domino</a> (May 2008).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirrezNkxgTyIoUFu0zavDg4zzvbXp6uFKuaInc2vdqrBqRpq5F2nNkpzOKYYefABII2az0X8qFb7mk612ewZQzUB9czpA9GxWvMO1-TDrn9ngoogrM0pVwNPamIaKaqFU3KAgDYB1fyhE/s1600/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesADJuly2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirrezNkxgTyIoUFu0zavDg4zzvbXp6uFKuaInc2vdqrBqRpq5F2nNkpzOKYYefABII2az0X8qFb7mk612ewZQzUB9czpA9GxWvMO1-TDrn9ngoogrM0pVwNPamIaKaqFU3KAgDYB1fyhE/s640/BlogBlackandWhiteStripesADJuly2011.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Lined with marble and painted decades ago to resemble a tent, a bath is furnished with a Judi Boisson rug and antique Chinese garden stools."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greek Revival house in Philadelphia.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.jaynedesignstudio.com/">Thomas Jayne</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Jean Nathan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Pieter Estersohn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Restorative Power" produced by Howard Christian.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (July 2011).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZqIBLcAfmriY_yJEYzuBSS7T7iqHYmMI998MWO6CT9aa5vOeAfCP88N5rVGwk0oJAePnFj9Zrus1N1W1ovXnqbHM9xrMPX4pdtk3kkmPzlmSpR8gf6pMq2B9sqRKKHeZ2Pq2He8gM_o/s1600/BlogGamesPeoplePlayADMarch2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZqIBLcAfmriY_yJEYzuBSS7T7iqHYmMI998MWO6CT9aa5vOeAfCP88N5rVGwk0oJAePnFj9Zrus1N1W1ovXnqbHM9xrMPX4pdtk3kkmPzlmSpR8gf6pMq2B9sqRKKHeZ2Pq2He8gM_o/s640/BlogGamesPeoplePlayADMarch2011.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Graphic patterns give the exercise room a fanciful attitude; the bold carpeting is by Durkan, and the striped fabric that tents the ceiling is by Romo."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.richardkeithlangham.com/">Richard Keith Langham</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Julia Reed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Pieter Estersohn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"State of Grace" produced by Howard Christian.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (March 2011).</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

Black and White

Black and white. Perfect for the kitchen, the bath, a foyer or a gracious curving stair. Perfect even for circus tents, or the illusion of o...

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