Rest was the aim of this third-floor bar and library by Austin designer Fern Santini. Opening on to a deck nestled in the treetops, it is an edgy nevertheless chilled-out lair “to lounge and hear to new music, have a cocktail, and watch the sunset, surrounded by a entire world-class pictures assortment of musicians who’ve adjusted [the field] endlessly,” shares Santini. Along with a sturdy library of songs publications, Santini is smitten with the trippy Kyle Bunting dyed cowhide ceiling. It is visually stunning, but it is also “a great acoustical factor that performs when the McIntosh MTI100 Built-in Turntable is cranked up a bit,” she points out. A midcentury FontanaArte chandelier, antique Turkish rug, and custom made Shota Yamaguchi desk all buoy the semi-round bar topped with towering brass shelves.
Mary Beth Wagner Interiors
When Dallas designer Mary Beth Wagner and local architect Christy Blumenfeld have been summoned back again to the home they tackled together a couple of decades again, they were being requested for home bar strategies to develop a committed space for entertaining shut to the kitchen area and spouse and children place. Born from an unused patio, the now-enclosed place melds deep blue-green walls and a showstopping bar. The latter is adorned with geometric-print tiles and “a metallic grasscloth that grew to become the backsplash so as to not just take away from the patterned entrance of the bar,” says Wagner, who also integrated brass shelving to clearly show off a attractive stash of stemware. The outcome? “Elegant but a minimal funky,” as Wagner puts it, “which satisfies the homeowners’ personalities.”
Yates Desygn
Intended as a subterranean speakeasy for the Dallas Kips Bay Decorator Display Home in 2021, this gallery-like bar, rounded out by a lounge and secondary kitchen, attracts from the aesthetics of hedonistic Prohibition-era haunts. “The star of the room is absolutely the cantilevered island that features a Cambria countertop. We designed it with a structural engineer and it is so safe that you could even dance on leading of it, which is great in our speakeasy surroundings,” says Bryan Yates, principal designer at Dallas-dependent Yates Desygn. Even the chains dangling from the sensitive gentle fixture fabricated by Wired Tailor made Lighting to the studio’s actual technical specs “are reminiscent of a flapper’s swinging fringe gown,” adds Yates.
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