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Hand-painted and –gilded wallpaper by de Gournay adds sparkle to the dining area. The condo’s beautiful crown moldings seduced the homeowners on first viewing; modern white-leather dining chairs keep the dining space from feeling too rococo. Beaded white wallpaper in the powder room shimmers gently at night.
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with gold,” says Starr Daniels, is that “you have to exercise restraint. You have to know when enough is enough.”
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an elegant sheen. To enhance that glow, she covered the stairwell’s dark Venetian plaster with textured white wallpaper that adds interest while making the most of the home’s somewhat limited light. “This is the center unit of the condo,” she explains, “so there are no windows on the sides of the home and it can be dark. Part of the challenge here was to add and reflect light wherever we could.” Two shimmering chandeliers—one gilt, the other beaded—help meet that challenge beautifully in the entry, and a wall sculpture in gold and black glass adds a gem-like sparkle above the stairs. “I saw the pieces in a Boston-area art gallery,” Daniels recalls, “and it looked just like jewelry for the wall. I knew immediately that we had to have it for this project.” A similar “gotta have it” impulse took hold when she laid eyes on the white paper sculpture that hangs on the facing wall. Three-dimensional but entirely monochromatic, the sculpture adds interest without interrupting the clean expanse Daniels created by painting surrounding walls Farrow & Ball’s Wimborne White. The living room sofa and rug are white, as well, with black and taupe accents introduced sparingly in a painted-paper–
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