DESIGN SHOWCASE
183 Bull Path - Listed with Meg Salem of Saunders. Art Staged by Esperanza Leon
183 Bull Path - Listed with Meg Salem of Saunders. Art Staged by Esperanza Leon
Iacono makes pastel-colored self-portraits festooned with botanical parts. Photographer and artist Rossa Cole, also of East Hampton, has taken photographs of his own vertical sculptures, which he’s called “Green Jobs.” In one of a shovel the blade is replaced by a leaf. His penguin and sea gull mobiles made of six-pack rings hang in a child’s room. Leon is enamored of art made with repurposed materials, which in their new incarnation “become something even better.” Leon does not consider herself a stager. “I’m working with the people who would inhabit the house to form a private collection that the individual or family would enjoy for years to come.” And often times they do. Some homebuyers have been known to purchase a piece or two. The interior decorators behind Blue Ocean Design, Deborah Srb, and her partner, Iris Zonlight (both also agents at Sotheby’s) place art in all the
spec houses whose interiors they have designed. “Art ties it all together and finishes it,” says Srb. At the model house in Southampton Meadows, they have showcased a variety of art, some from their own collection, which they rotate throughout their projects, other on consignment. “We love to support the local art community,” says Zonlight.The placing of art in homes for sale is essential, says Zonlight, because “people cannot imagine how to fill up a space. It’s overwhelming for them.” Because the duo decorates with a subtle neutral palette of soft whites and grays, the art adds color and punctuation. In the home’s family room are two small color block paintings by Mark Humphrey, the Southampton gallerist, who is also an artist in his own right. (In fact, Humphrey’s own modern Deerfield Road residence, which is currently on the market for $2.295 million (listed by Roger Blaugh and
Michael Forestano of Corcoran), is made even more enticing because of his compelling collection of artwork exhibited throughout. In the dining room is a striking blue and white wavelike abstract bas-relief painting by New York artist Daniel Anderson, who calls such works “canvas sculpting.” Another work by Anderson hangs in the living room, along with a duo of noteworthy photographs by Sag Harbor photographer Robin Saidman, taken in India. In another house the pair has decorated at 965 Head of Pond, for sale for $5.950 million, are several of Sag Harbor photographer Bryan Downey’s moody images of polo ponies. As Zonlight says, “We’re not finished decorating till the last painting is up.”
Blue Ocean Design, Artwork by Mark Humprey
Blue Ocean Design, Artwork by Bryan Downey Photography
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