Throughout this year’s edition of the Kips Bay Decorator Show House New York, rooms trend toward an art-first approach, featuring portraits that inspire design, sculpture that directs the eye, and salon hangs that set the palette and mood.
Andrea Schumacher’s story-forward speakeasy is built around the art of her grandmother, Elizabeth Monath, who studied under Salvador Dalí and Fernand Léger. A Monath painting crowns a cherry blossom marble fireplace while a suite of her block prints lines an alcove.
The room takes its cue from a mask Monath sketched during her granddaughter’s childhood in Nigeria, now reimagined for Schmacher’s upcoming collection with The Vale London as wallpaper. Morocco-tinged details and a rhinoceros-shaped dry bar from Sylvan San Francisco complete the homage.
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