洛杉矶设计师 Kate Driver 的现代复古家居丨法国尼斯

洛杉矶设计师Kate Driver在威尼斯郁郁葱葱的绿洲中设计自己家时，令人惊讶的是，她一开始就放弃了自己的美学根源。在不那么有远见的人看来，这栋25英尺高的宏伟建筑和4500平方英尺的混凝土地板可能会让人觉得布置家具太过吃力。但对当时刚刚发现自己怀了第一个孩子的Kate Driver来说，这所房子只是一张空白的画布。

When it came to her own family’s lush and leafy oasis in Venice, Los Angeles–based designer Kate Driver started off, surprisingly, by abandoning her aesthetic roots.In the eyes of a lesser visionary, the house’s grand 25-foot heights and 4,500 square feet of concrete floors may have felt overwhelming to furnish. But for Driver, who at the time had just discovered she was pregnant with her first child, the house was merely a blank canvas.

Kate Driver说："我渴望那种丰富的、有质感的、但非常个性化的层次感。“也就是说，Kate Driver家的客厅是新旧收藏品的世界性拼贴，表现为一种自发的、协同的画面。一个相当原始的Fritz Hansen中世纪沙发，覆盖着郁郁葱葱的Liberty花卉天鹅绒，提供了一定程度的装饰，而Ettore Sottsass著名的Tahiti灯的幽默的几何形状，对一只火烈鸟的俏皮的后现代诠释，抵消了这种装饰。

“I aspire to that kind of layering—rich and textured but very personal,” Driver says. To wit, the living room in Driver’s home is a worldly pastiche of collectibles old and new, manifesting as a spontaneous and synergistic tableau. A rather prim Fritz Hansen midcentury settee, covered in lush Liberty floral velvet, offers a level of decorum offset by the humorous geometry of Ettore Sottsass’s famous Tahiti lamp, a playful postmodern interpretation of a flamingo.

在其他地方，West Haddon Hall设计的双核桃咖啡桌的凝重感与Driver希望设计出 "在视觉氛围中具有独特功能的锚 "的愿望相一致，受到了古董落地灯迷人的祖母式流苏或美国版画家Denise Kupferschmidt强烈的深蓝色画作的挑战。

Elsewhere, the gravity of twin walnut coffee tables by West Haddon Hall—emblematic of Driver’s desire to design pieces that are “distinctive and functional anchors in the visual atmosphere”—are challenged by the charming granny fringe of an antique floor lamp or American printmaker Denise Kupferschmidt’s punchy cobalt painting.

这个家不断地在变化，随着物品和人的变化而扩大和缩小。楼上的落地窗被改造成了一个私密的起居室，设计师在那里放置了20世纪70年代的Luis Montiel挂毯，Driver称之为 "复古的彩虹"，这与一个色调更严肃的刺绣地毯形成对比。室外餐厅在West Haddon Hall的野餐长椅上接待住户一家五口，就像容纳25个来访的墨西哥卷饼爱好者一样容易。

The home is constantly in flux, expanding and contracting with pieces and people.The upstairs landing was transformed into an intimate sitting room, where the designer placed a 1970s Luis Montiel tapestry—a “retro rainbow,” as Driver calls it—in contrast to a needlework rug with a more serious palette. An outdoor dining room, which hosts the resident family of 5 on West Haddon Hall picnic benches as easily as it accommodates 25 visiting taco buffs.

Interiors:KateDriver

Photos:LaureJoliet

Words:倩倩