{"id":114303,"date":"2020-02-15T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/flaws-and-effect-jenna-lyonss-imperfect-new-york-loft\/"},"modified":"2020-02-15T23:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T16:03:40","slug":"flaws-and-effect-jenna-lyonss-imperfect-new-york-loft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/flaws-and-effect-jenna-lyonss-imperfect-new-york-loft\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaws and effect: Jenna Lyons\u2019s \u2018imperfect\u2019 New York loft"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nJenna Lyons, the former creative director of J Crew, uses her refurbished New York apartment to show off her love of objects with a pastJenna Lyons, style titan and former executive creative director of J Crew, admits to a lifelong appreciation for the timeworn, which underpins her vibrant sense of design. \u201cI love a sense of history in something. I love a patina, I love seeing someone else\u2019s touch, or seeing a stain, or seeing a nick or a chip. Materials get soft and they get round and they change colour,\u201d she says. This passionate embrace of imperfection can be seen throughout her three-bedroom loft in New York\u2019s SoHo neighbourhood, which she spent two years renovating.When she was looking for a new home, a long stint living in a Brooklyn brownstone informed her list of prerequisites \u2013 she wanted it to be all on one floor and large enough to accommodate the \u201cmain parts of life\u201d, like cooking, eating and hanging out. \u201cI rent the apartment downstairs as my office, but when I bought the loft above it was all open plan and hadn\u2019t been touched in about 40 years,\u201d recalls Lyons, who is currently working on a top-secret beauty project, designing a hotel in the Bahamas and gearing up to launch a lifestyle television series and e-commerce site in the summer. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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