客户的短暂Mariette为了戈麦斯是一项艰巨的一个:“你做过的最好的房子。”But to the designer, it was less a challenge than an invitation. A self-described minimalist with a strong classic sensibility whose work is more client-driven than style-driven, Gomez immediately took to the 1929 French Normandy–style house on the shores of Lake Michigan. "It's a masterpiece of building," she says, "with lovely details throughout. What it needed was the perfect balance of appropriate furnishings and decoration."
找到平衡,戈麦斯很幸运地有一个热情和同情客户,是谁,她说,“难以置信。”A financial services professional with a young family, he had spent several years in Europe, where he developed an eye for English and French antiques and art. Gomez was also teamed with architect Marvin Herman, whose responsiveness to his client's instincts echoed hers and whose passion for the project was infectious.
说:“这所房子是一个魔术师,赫尔曼。“这是非常匀称和平衡。它有一个引人入胜的历史。第一个主人是一个业余歌剧歌手,他创建了一个两层为她的表演音乐画廊;它的双臂楼梯导致第二个层次阶段。”In 1931 she added a Prohibition-era entertainment room with a bar area hidden behind paneling that opened at the touch of a button. And as an antidote to cold midwestern winters, the walls were covered with canvas panels depicting a fanciful, vaguely Moroccan seacoast, lush with date palms; the floor was paved with cobalt-blue Mediterranean tiles, and the ceiling was painted with silver leaf. The rest of the house was somewhat less whimsical but equally rich in detail: The dining room was paneled in walnut, the music gallery's walls were picked out with plasterwork, and the library's ceiling was coffered with 1,000 squares, each imprinted with a different rose. But by the time the client saw it, the house had suffered from the vicissitudes of time, including water damage, and the depredations of a previous owner's dog, whose sprints through the double-height gallery had left deep claw marks in the parquetry floor.
没有这个重要客户,历史建筑的迷立刻爱上了这个地方,给赫尔曼·戈麦斯的任务转变成他的梦想的家。结果,赫尔曼先机:公司已经进行了1990年代中期装修房子的早期客户——“一个巨大的帮助,”他说,“因为我们可以看到我们可以或应该做的。”
这次,赫尔曼被指控扩大他的新客户的家庭住宅,把它带入21世纪恢复光荣的特性,让客户端想要在第一时间。这涉及到添加一个卧室翼游戏室,办公室,与早餐的房间和扩大厨房;安装新的布线;和匹配石头面临外部和替换受损石膏几乎每个房间里详细说明。说:“对于图书馆赫尔曼,“那个美丽的方格天花板下垂,我们不得不把地板上的第二个故事,拉线整个事情回到的地方,看上去好像什么事也没有做。”
