{"id":2966,"date":"2024-09-19T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2024\/09\/19\/a-modern-fairy-tale-told-in-800-square-feet-sandeep-salters-family-apartment\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T04:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:17:10","slug":"a-modern-fairy-tale-told-in-800-square-feet-sandeep-salters-family-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/it\/a-modern-fairy-tale-told-in-800-square-feet-sandeep-salters-family-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Una favola moderna raccontata in 800 metri quadrati: l'appartamento della famiglia di Sandeep Salter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sandeep Salter knows a thing or two about creative living. The daughter of a choreographer (Darshan Singh Bhuller) and a dancer, Sandeep grew up in London\u2019s Primrose Hill before studying fine art at Parsons in New York. There she worked as an archivist and bibliographer, met husband Carson Salter, and ran a small bookshop out of the MIT Media Lab in Boston where Carson was studying. Back in NYC, Sandeep partnered with Sarah McNally, of McNally Jackson booksellers, to open Goods for the Study and Picture Room next door. Named after the Picture Room at Soane House in London, the gallery sells work of contemporary artists, rare prints, and framed ephemera. Last year, Sandeep moved Picture Room independently to Brooklyn Heights, blocks from the 800-square-foot apartment where she, Carson, and their two daughters live.<\/p>\n

The small apartment, decorated with inherited antiques and evocative color, holds memories both past and future. \u201cThinking about how my children will experience their home has become a guiding principle. It\u2019s the details that stick.\u201d says Sandeep. \u201cI think about how the girls run up and down the hallway, turn the small brass knobs on these huge black doors to enter into bright rooms filled with light and color. It\u2019s a small apartment, but the thresholds are magical and charming.\u201d Join us for a tour.<\/p>\n

Photography by Jonathan Pilkington for Remodelista; styling by Alexa Hotz.<\/p>\n


Above: In the living room, an upholstered armchair\u2014Carson\u2019s grandfather\u2019s chair\u2014and a wooden chamber pot chair passed down from Carson\u2019s great-grandparents\u2019. \u201cWe are the caretakers for a lot of Carson\u2019s family furniture from Georgia, which has been passed down four or five generations at this point,\u201d Sandeep explains. \u201cThere is a very sentient history to most of the objects in our home; stories to all of them.\u201d The chamber pot chair is, \u201cat the moment, the girls\u2019 favorite trick seat for new visitors.\u201d
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Above: A picture wall reminiscent of Picture Room. Clockwise from far left, the works are: \u201cTwo Intervals I\u201d by Richard Kostelanetz, \u201cHollywood Rd.\u201d by Pia Howell, historic ephemera from a 1972 piece by Dan Graham, a work by Dexter Sinister given to Sandeep and Carson as a wedding gift, \u201cSally\u2019s Room\u201d by Maia Ruth Lee, and \u201cNordstjernens Lys Polaris \/Shot to Hell While Wishing Upon a Star\u201d by Lawrence Weiner. Carson built the white bookshelf that displays favorite art books and a set of cobalt-tinted ceramics by Natalie Weinberger.
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Above: Sandeep shares her advice for framing and displaying artwork: \u201cAlways frame an artwork for the artwork, not for its surrounding environment. The artwork will fit into an interior much better if it\u2019s not trying to match it, but reflects something about the space or its inhabitants,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely OK to mix frame styles, but when it doubt, go with a raw or unfinished maple frame\u2014rather than black or white. It\u2019s neutral, contemporary, and doesn\u2019t hide its materiality.\u201d <\/p>\n


Above: \u201cI always wanted a Wedgwood Blue bedroom, but in reality, Wedgwood Blue proper was a little too dark for this room so we went with Farrow & Ball Parma Gray,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a soothing color and reminds me of the last stanza of \u201cHigh Windows\u201d [by Philip Larkin] and Marie Antoinette all at once!\u201d The wrought iron bed frame is from a Goodwill in New Jersey with Stonewashed Belgian Linen bedding from Restoration Hardware. Behind the bed is a velvet overcoat from Sandeep\u2019s grandmother: \u201cvery austere, as I believe she was.\u201d
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Above: A chair from Carson\u2019s grandparents that was once a functioning music box chair that played when the seat was lifted. \u201cI\u2019d like to restore its function someday, but for now it\u2019s a good hiding place. I\u2019m always finding small treasures in there\u2014rocks, beads, earplugs, buttons\u2014hidden by one of the girls.\u201d The sconce is the Original BTC Hector Wall Sconce. <\/p>\n

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Above: A marble-topped painted dresser from the Salter family collection is paired with Ironstone from Sandeep\u2019s grandmother.,<\/p>\n


Above: A glass shelf bought on a whim at ABC Carpet & Home (something similar is the ABC DNA Synthesis Shelf) stores linens in a French door alcove between the bedroom and living room.
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Above: The girls\u2019 bedroom has a rattan twin bed that was Carson\u2019s as a child. Above the bed are framed antique prints: \u201cOld Ideas of the World,\u201d an 18th-century German typographic form, and a wreath with the letter \u201cS.\u201d Sandeep built the dollhouse for their oldest daughter, Lowe Roma, while pregnant with their second, Eta, and furnished it with a Greenleaf Set found on eBay. <\/p>\n


Above: An under-bed storage solution is a thin antique wall cabinet for overflow toys.,<\/p>\n


Above: The kitchen was remodeled a year in when Sandeep and Carson knocked out a granite breakfast bar that separated the kitchen from the dining room (now the girls\u2019 bedroom) and built a wall with reclaimed windows at the top to bring in the light. They installed open shelves, an Ikea Hammarp wood countertop, a trio of drawers painted Farrow & Ball Off-Black in Full Gloss, and an under-sink linen curtain. A child-size trio of enamel ladles and red broom (bought from Acorn, a Waldorf children\u2019s shop in Boerum Hill) and an Iris Hantverk Table Brush.
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Above: \u201cI had no interest in enamelware until I met Carson,\u201d says Sandeep. \u201cHe grew up with so much of it in the South, and I realized it was a big part of my own visual vocabulary from England. So now we\u2019re both obsessed.\u201d Surrounding the sink is a collection of enamelware\u2014a grater, a wall bucket, soap dish, and strainer\u2014from various flea markets. Paper towels are kept in a Copper Wire Mountable Towel Holder from West Elm and the sink\u2014\u201ca triumph; so affordable and the look and size is perfect\u201d\u2014is the Domsj\u00f6 from Ikea.
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Above: The hallway baseboard is painted Farrow & Ball Off-Black in Full Gloss and two sets of Shaker rails store family jackets and bags. The bench is a church pew from Georgia, Carson\u2019s great-grandparents\u2019, and on the antique side table is Sandeep\u2019s solution, a metal shoehorn on a ribbon that typically hangs from a peg. For a list of the openings and goings-on at Picture Room on 117 Atlantic Ave., in Brooklyn Heights, visit Picture Room online. <\/p>\n

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