{"id":174,"date":"2019-04-02T20:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondthebeige.theinside.com\/inside-the-home-of-scalamandres-president-2633518894.html"},"modified":"2021-09-16T20:04:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T20:04:05","slug":"scalamandre-style-reigns-supreme-in-this-nyc-bachelor-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/scalamandre-style-reigns-supreme-in-this-nyc-bachelor-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"Scalamandr\u00e9 Style Reigns Supreme in this NYC Bachelor Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OLD WORLD CHARM<\/h3>\n
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The carved wooden doors to Chad’s bedroom are from Indonesia. The paisley wall covering is by Scalamandre, and the custom bed is upholstered in Lelievre’s Sultan velvet.<\/p>\n

Photo: Genevieve Garruppo, Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff<\/p>\n

When Scalamandr\u00e9<\/a> president Chad Stark decided to redecorate, he went straight to the talented\u00a0Sasha Bikoff<\/a>\u00a0to make his vision a reality. Sasha and Chad first met at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. Contemporaries in the design world, their shared passion and similar approach to the industry inspired them to work together. Bikoff, a big client of Stark’s industry-leading showrooms and brands, describes them as design and business yin and yang.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A SHOWROOM AND A HOME<\/h3>\n
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A table made out of an Indonesian fishing boat with chairs covered in Scalamandre’s iconic Le Tigre silk velvet.<\/p>\n

Photo: Genevieve Garruppo, Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff<\/p>\n

For his apartment in downtown Manhattan, Stark envisioned an exhibition of his companies’ best. He wanted to bring that familiar showroom experience into his home. A “huge fan of Scalamandr\u00e9, old world weavers, and all of Chad’s products,” Sasha was on board with the concept from the start.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ICONIC PATTERNS<\/h3>\n
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The kitchen highlights Bikoff’s deft mix of the Scalamandre “Zebra” and Iris and Carl Apfel’s “Midas Touch.”<\/p>\n

Photo: Genevieve Garruppo, Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff<\/p>\n

“The most important aspect of design for me is…knowing who your client is,” remarks Bikoff. “You need a deep understanding of who they are, what they are passionate about, and what they love in life” so that you can synthesize that inspiration and create something they can’t yet imagine for themselves. To achieve this, Bikoff turned to iconic Scalamadr\u00e9 patterns (like the\u00a0Zebras<\/a>) in modern and unexpected colorways.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MOUNTAIN CHIC<\/h3>\n
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Sasha brought the outdoors inside with touches like elk and moose horn.<\/p>\n

Photo: Genevieve Garruppo, Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff<\/p>\n

Having worked with Stark for a few years, the designer understood both his love for the outdoors and his ties to New York. “I think most designers would probably see Chad as a business guy and create a predictable monotonous modern male interior for him, but men have personalities too. They have goals and dreams for their interiors. I always say that Chad is a patron of the design world; he is friends with the designers and always moving the industry forward in his roles at Stark and Scalamandr\u00e9, and I felt his apartment should reflect that.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MASCULINE ECLECTICISM<\/h3>\n
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Large carved wooden doors connect the bedroom to the living area give the space an eclectic vibe.<\/p>\n

Photo: Genevieve Garruppo, Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff<\/p>\n

With access to everything in the Scalamandr\u00e9 and Stark showrooms, Bikoff was beyond inspired and pulled countless textiles for the project. “The whole thing ended up being a fabric driven story,” shares the designer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ARCHIVAL DESIGNS<\/h3>\n
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Out of print, Bikoff too the last piece of “Midas Touch” by Iris and Carl Apfel right off the showroom floor.<\/p>\n

Photo: Genevieve Garruppo, Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff<\/p>\n

Bikoff pulled archival fabrics that she had always admired but never used. When she discovered that Midas Touch\u2014an archival fabric by Iris and Carl Apfel\u2014was out of print, she pulled it from the showroom wall and claimed it for the project. She ended up using it on the bar stools, which steal the show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NEW WORLD WEAVERS<\/h3>\n
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Le Tigre velvet and Zebras, both iconic Scalamandre designs.<\/p>\n

Photo: Genevieve Garruppo, Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff<\/p>\n

Stark and Bikoff both wanted to incorporate iconic Scalamandr\u00e9 fabrics like Le Tigre and\u00a0Zebras<\/a>. Although designers often use the iconic zebras in red, Bikoff selected the blue as a nod to the outdoors and the sky. She refers to Stark’s place as “new world weavers.” The pair carefully selected heritage fabrics, mixing them in a way that feels young and hip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OLD WORLD CHARM The carved wooden doors to Chad’s bedroom are from Indonesia. The paisley wall covering is by Scalamandre, and the custom bed is upholstered in Lelievre’s Sultan velvet. Photo: Genevieve Garruppo, Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff When Scalamandr\u00e9 president Chad Stark decided to redecorate, he went straight to the talented\u00a0Sasha Bikoff\u00a0to make his vision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiring-interiors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theinside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}