{"id":2934,"date":"2025-01-22T02:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2025\/01\/22\/a-visit-with-renowned-stylist-scott-newkirk-at-his-new-place-in-charlotte-north-carolina\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T02:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:19:39","slug":"a-visit-with-renowned-stylist-scott-newkirk-at-his-new-place-in-charlotte-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/th\/a-visit-with-renowned-stylist-scott-newkirk-at-his-new-place-in-charlotte-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit with Renowned Stylist Scott Newkirk, at His New Place in Charlotte, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A star fashion stylist in NYC for nearly 30 years, Scott Newkirk has also been one to watch in the world of interiors, thanks to his effortlessly chic quarters. In Brooklyn, he kept home in a former fire station with burlap curtains and art displayed every which way (including with masking tape as instant wall frames)\u2014as featured in our first book, Remodelista: A Sourcebook for the Stylish Home.<\/em> In upstate NY, he built his own off-the-grid, two-story dream cabin from salvaged materials\u2014see Steal This Look. Photos of the latter and of Scott bathing in a brook continue to make the online rounds even though Scott himself moved on a decade ago.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re happy to report that our friend recently resurfaced with his beloved dog, Scratch, and an expanded repertoire. After putting most of his possessions in storage and going home to Mississippi to help his ailing father, Scott tells us, he got a job offer that brought him to Charlotte, North Carolina. For the last few years, he\u2019s been beyond busy as the visual director at Tabor and Capitol, companion mens\u2019 and womenswear boutiques (at Tabor, Scott was also enlisted to design the store and is one of its two buyers). And for the last year, he and Scratch have been getting settled in an apartment in a 1929 five-story brick structure in Charlotte\u2019s Fourth Ward, a walkable area of Victorian houses and pocket-sized park that he describes as \u201cthe most urban neighborhood I could find.\u201d Every object Scott lives with has a story, and he welcomed us in for a guided tour.<\/p>\n

Photography by Chris Edwards, courtesy of Scott Newkirk.<\/p>\n


Above: Located in what Scott thinks was Charlotte\u2019s first luxury apartment building, the two-bedroom setup came in great condition, with its original features intact, including wood floors, casement windows, and a working fireplace. \u201cI\u2019m usually one to repaint rooms\u2014it makes them yours. But I loved the existing color on the walls, Sherwin Williams Light French Gray.  It\u2019s just moody enough to soften the room.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe living room is quite small so I needed a sofa no more than five-feet long,\u201d Scott continues.\u201dI came across this one on 1st Dibs. It was a sad little no-name Italian piece from the late fifties in an old red striped velvet with springs bursting from the seat, but it had great lines and I loved the little brass legs. (I like to imagine it lived in Venice at one point.) I found the beautiful green mohair at a local fabric store that sells leftovers from interior designers and it gave the sofa a new life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Above: Scott always surrounds himself with stacks of outsized books and positions art in every sight line. Much of the work is by friends and people he\u2019s worked with, such as the ceramic orb is by sculptor Pamela Sunday and the Dietmar Busse tree photograph: \u201cIt\u2019s actually a color image of a fresh snowfall in his hometown in Germany.\u201d <\/p>\n

Other than the sofa and the Grasshopper Floor Lamp, shown here, just about everything came from Scott\u2019s New York loft: \u201cAll of the furniture was purchased in the early- to mid-1990s from small furniture galleries in Soho and the beloved 26th Street Flea Market.\u201d<\/p>\n


Above: The ceramic groupings on the mantel include a Pamela Sunday vase: \u201cEvery piece of hers is hand built. I met Pam in the early nineties when she was an art director at Bergdorf Goodman and I was working with them as a stylist.\u201d  That\u2019s a 1902 pressed seaweed print in the frame. <\/p>\n


Above: Scott and Scratch at his living room desk, a Danish-modern rosewood table. The Thonet No. B9 chair is on loan from architect Perry Poole\u2014\u201dhe\u2019s the friend who convinced me to move down here. He and his wife, Laura, own the stores that I work with, Capitol, which Laura opened over twenty years ago [her podcast now in its sixth season is What We Wore], and Tabor, which I helped open seven years ago.\u201d
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Above: \u201cBooks, books, books,\u201d says Scott, \u201cand not a shelf in sight, so pretty much every surface serves as a resting place for my collection.\u201d Of the 1950 Cubist canvas propped against the wall, Scott says, \u201cMy color palette lives in that painting.\u201d The table story: \u201cI bought it thirty years ago from a young man who had just inherited two warehouses of Scandinavian furniture from his Dad and was trying to sort it all out. That day was a score.\u201d Scott paired the 1960s bronze lamp with a string shade he long ago found in a Chelsea thrift store. The long-armed light is in the style of Prouv\u00e9. <\/p>\n

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Above: Scott says his friend Karen Gelardi\u2018s artwork \u201cspeaks to my love of reinterpreting the mundane.\u201d Shown here: Gelardi\u2019s \u2018Drawing Construction No. 2,\u2019 \u201ca large papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 panel made with upcycled chipboard, rice paper, and photocopies of a hand-drawn grid structure. And the framed piece to the right is Gelardi\u2019s \u2018Romasco Weed,\u2019 a colored pencil drawing on a patched-together manila folder.\u201d
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Above: Scott steel kitchen table was custom ordered back in the 1980s from Zona, the Southwestern-themed It store in Soho. It works with a pair of vintage Tolex stools. The tall plant is a pencil cactus. Scott\u2019s sister, Jane Newkirk of @gemglasstudio, made the stained glass medallion.,

Above: Scott left the kitchen as is and used a vintage French art poster and \u201ca lot of wooden spoons to disguise the laminate countertops.\u201d He draped the Restoration Hardware task lamp\u2019s heavy metal shade with burlap to soften it. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved things made of twine and burlap. In the summer, instead of logs I keep a knotted rope sculpture in the fireplace\u2014creating something beautiful from the mundane.\u201d
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Above: A Japanese tansu chest stands in the entry: \u201cIt spent a decade in my cabin upstate and always finds a home wherever I take it.\u201d By surrounding it with art, including two prints from a vintage Paul Klee folio and a 1951 painting, Scott was able to turn the narrow little space into \u201ca very intimate gallery.\u201d
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Above: The apartment has two bedrooms, but Scott uses one of them as a walk-in closet. The George Nelson rosewood Thin-Edge Cabinet is filled with \u201cfabrics I\u2019ve collected in my travels and more books.\u201d The foxed mirror came from Restoration Hardware 15 years ago and the ceramic vessel is a Pamela Sunday.,

Above: Scott keeps things simple in the bedroom: \u201cit\u2019s literally just a mattress; I blackened the side of it.\u201d The linen sheets are by Matteo and the gray throw is from Snow Peak.
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Above: A vintage Aalto stool and Mies chair keep company with a Karlheinz Weinberger photograph.
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Above: \u201cIt\u2019s not perfect,\u201d says Scott, \u201cbut all my favorite things are here. I see everything that I want to see.\u201d Of late, Scott has been moonlighting on some interiors projects for friends and he\u2019s thinking about designing a log furniture collection. Keep up with him @newkirk_interiors. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s our 2011 Designer Visit: Scott Newkirk shot by Michael Mundy at Scott\u2019s Brooklyn firehouse.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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