Brooklyn Modern #1: Craft Modern in Fort Greene
[nggallery id=”26412″ template=galleryview] A special treat to go along with your turkey and cranberry this week. We’ve invited Diana Lind, editor of The Next American City and author of Brooklyn Modern to share some photos and thoughts from the book. For those of you who haven’t seen it, or read the accompanying essay by one…
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A special treat to go along with your turkey and cranberry this week. We’ve invited Diana Lind, editor of The Next American City and author of Brooklyn Modern to share some photos and thoughts from the book. For those of you who haven’t seen it, or read the accompanying essay by one Mr. B, Brooklyn Modern explores “the connection between Brooklyn’s astounding rebirth and its emerging architecture.” For the real estate boom, as we all know, was not just about brownstones, but a pioneering aesthetic style that we’ve explored even here (remember the Modern Townhouse thread?”).
Every day but Turkey Day this week, we’ll have a peek at a Brooklyn Modern creation, with a few words by Diana Lind with it. The photography is by Yoko Inoue. Enjoy installment #1.
Lena Corwin is a fairly well-known textile designer and blogger in Brooklyn. She and her husband Josh bought a brownstone in Ft. Greene several years ago and took the lower duplex for themselves while they rented an apartment upstairs. With a little help from Glamour magazine, which paid for a basic make-over, the couple renovated their duplex. They highlighted the apartments original assets — very high ceilings, plank wood floors — and modernized the space with crafty wallpaper, modern art, and brightly colored furniture.
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I also love the color scheme since it’s mine also 🙂 I have a slightly darker beige in an interior room. Since that room gets not alot of light, the paint shade is the “shadow” color of beige throughout the rest of the house. Even the bathroom.
Love the paint color scheme in the living room, especially the brown color above the picture molding. Innovative, modern, and also in keeping with the original details.
I love that the couch has a stack of books as one of it’s legs!
I just wish we could see entire rooms so we can see and judge the design elements in a room all together. I don’t enjoy this trendy, very cropped “details” photography for interiors. Unless I’m shopping for a lamp on a website or in a catalog.
Very nice, a little bare bones for me, but I appreciate the stylishness of it.
The green sofa is awesome….very chic. Love the blue buttons.
Lisa, thanks for reminding us about the modern townhouse thread and that I contributed something valid. Shout out to me.
How do you get the fireplace marble so clean? Is the metal grating painted or stripped?
well done!