![]() IPhone Xs Max, iPhone 11 Pro Max: 1242x2688 ![]() IPhone X, iPhone Xs, iPhone 11 Pro: 1125x2436 IPhone 6 plus, iPhone 6s plus, iPhone 7 plus, iPhone 8 plus: 1242x2208 ![]() IPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 8: 750x1334 IPhone 5, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone SE: 640x1136 IPhone: iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS: 320x480 We decided to basically copy Frances’s exact closet-the idea was to just make it feel like it had been there the whole time.MacBook Pro 13.3" Retina, MacBook Air 13" Retina, MacBook Air 13.3"(2020, M1): 2560x1600 Dual monitor: “She loves clothes and shoes and had worked in fashion, so we wanted to give her a fabulous closet, but didn’t want it to feel tacky. After seeing an image of a closet that Elkins had designed for a Chicago residence in 1929, with cerused-wood walls and inlaid mirror, Sommers decided to recreate it for the wife. There are callbacks to the house’s original designers, too. The guest room pelmets were inspired by David Hicks lime-green pleated silk trim on the office curtains were pulled from a space designed by Miles Redd a custom sofa in the living room was based on a Vladimir Kagan original. “Everything kind of came from different tear sheets and inspiration pages,” she explains. Francesco Lagnese Sommers also riffed on themes from other design greats throughout the decades. In the main closet, the team copied a Frances Elkins cerused-wood treatment and accented it with inlaid mirrors custom rug by Patterson Flynn Martin. The ultimate goal: a “boho-preppy, faded-World of Interiors” retreat. “We just couldn’t help ourselves-we ended up with an eggplant lacquered room!” she laughs. The original intention had been to “let the architecture speak for itself and do everything in neutrals,” explains Sommers, but color crept back in as the process went on. “It almost makes the job harder, because when they have so much trust in you, you just want to make sure you do right by them!” Working alongside architect Austin Depree of Northworks in Chicago, Sommers began planning an age-appropriate facelift, infusing each room with a fresh, energetic personality worthy of the Instagram era, but still in keeping with the home’s storied bones. ![]() The feeling was mutual: “They were A+ clients-never a question about ‘was that too many yards?’ Or ‘are you sure we like that?’ Or ‘can you do better?’ ” says Sommers. Francesco Lagnese Baldwin and Elkins’s efforts had been undone by “some unfortunate ’80s work” in the intervening decades, says the owner, and by the time she and her husband bought the home, “it was very gloomy and dark-everything was brown and faux renaissance.” Having teamed up with Sommers on two previous projects, including a color-drenched Chicago townhouse intended to provide a cheerful new start as the wife battled (and eventually beat) cancer, they knew that Sommers would have the effervescent, upbeat vision necessary to bring the 1930s structure back to life. The walls are in Acanthus Stripe grasscloth by Celerie Kemble for Schumacher. ![]() & Ball purple that “changes color in every part of the day,” says Sommers, pictured here. Miles Redd’s Glass Paneling wallpaper by Schumacher glimmers on the ceiling of the butler’s pantry. ![]()
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