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St. Bart's collection. This line of organic whitewash and natural weathered teak furniture evokes imagery of the white sand beaches and aqua waters of the famous French caribbean Island. This line of organic whitewash and natural weathered teak furniture evokes imagery of the white sand beaches and aqua waters of the famous French Caribbean island. The organic grooves of the teak are carefully filled with a aqua resin, which is cracked before applying, to achieve a unique quartz crystal effect. The complete outdoor furniture line includes side tables, coffee tables, sun loungers, benches, and day beds.
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"In the husband's office, 19th century armchairs from Lucca Antiques flank a pair of burnt-wood tables by Andrianna Shamaris." "Salvaged materials were given a starring role. "The owners like character and patina and opportunities for old wood," notes Gambrel." "The rosewood table is by Andrianna Shamaris"
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Andrianna Shamaris had a straightforward request when hunting for an apartment in 2007: "I told the broker I wanted to look out at a tree." After months of touring apartments that overlooked other buildings, she finally found a fifteenth-floor two-bedroom with staggering views of Central Park. She had more trees to look at than she could count. Never mind that the prewar apartment was pretty run down -- what brokers term "estate" condition. Shamaris recalled an ultramodern apartment she had seen, designed by Brooklyn-based architect Thomas Leeser. She called him in to help. Her instructions were to create a clean, crisp space that didn't completely erase the apartment's original character. "I wanted this to be more of a restoration, not just a renovation," says Shamaris, who runs an eponymous store in Soho that specializes in earthy furniture and accessories from Southeast Asia. As a result, Leeser created a space that "has three directions." "It's a careful balance between the materiality of these Southeast Asian things that she collected, the classical atmosphere of the existing building, and a modern, minimal, clean look and functionality," says Leeser. He demolished walls to open the space up and modernised with amenities like a glass Valcucine kitchen and central air-conditioning. The design team reproduced moldings that were unsalvageable, reinstalled existing crystal doorknobs on new resin doors, and uncovered the original cast-iron radiators. Shamaris retiled the foyer, kitchen, and bathroom with custom concrete--"Why would I buy tiles when the ones I make are so much nicer?" she asks--and added bold texture by manufacturing her own full-height doors from weathered teak with a shell inlay.
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The ground floor sets the tone for the contemporary ease of the home...The table is from Andrianna Shamaris in New York.
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ANDRIANNA SHAMARIS'S CHIC NEW SOUTHAMPTON BOUTIQUE Tastemaker and designer Andrianna Shamaris recently expanded her eponymous home-furnishings company with a shop in Southampton, New York, the second location after her base in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. The new space is overflowing with chic products that Shamaris conceived with the Hamptons in mind. Accessories such as baskets, woven bags, place mats, and pillows are displayed alongside jewelry embellished with antique shells. Also exclusive to the Hamptons outpost are two clothing lines: Good in Bed, comprising sleepwear, made of a lightweight handwoven Indian cotton, that can serve double duty as beach cover-ups; and Andrianna Shamaris, featuring one-of-a-kind dresses and shirts fashioned from antique ceremonial Balinese sarongs. A sizable selection of new designs and reimagined antique furniture is also on hand. Shamaris’s unique offerings include Colonial-era tables and chairs with shell inlays, sculptural weathered-teak pieces with aqua resin, and a collection of wood tables that have been burned to a black finish. Artifacts amassed from the designer’s travels to Southeast Asia include an impressive 15-foot-wide wood carving. Whether you’re in the market for vibrant artwork, a one-of-a-kind dining table, or simply a picture frame, this chic shop has you covered. FULL ARTICLE
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OUR FINDS: TABLE FOR DISCUSSION "This piece is intricately crafted, but the clean lines keep it from seeming overly ornate." Side table, in Natural Teak with Shell Inlay.
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The Chipotle Mexican Grill executives Mark Crumpacker and Tim Wildin furnished their Greenwich Village kitchen with a vintage black granite Saarinen table bought through 1stdibs. The black leather and espresso-stained teak chairs are by Andrianna Shamaris; the Mater barstools are from Design Public. Mr. Wildin, left, and Mr.Crumpacker at the marble-top kitchen island designed by the architect Thaddeus Briner. To make the countertop look very thin, Mr. Briner had the edge notched with a rabbet. The Italian statuary marble of the counter extends onto the backsplash above the Gaggenau Vario cooktop and teppanyaki grill. Dimmable fluorescent lighting recessed in the ceiling around the periphery of the living area brightens the room, as does the new set of slipcovers ($4,940) on the Solo sectional sofa from B & B Italia. Colleagues visiting the apartment have noticed its resemblance to the Chipotle restaurants — particularly elements like the walnut architectural volume, which recalls the freestanding plywood forms at Chipotle. Both were built by Digifabshop, in Hudson, N.Y. The Eames Aluminum Management Chair that sits in Mr. Crumpacker's office alcove is from Design Within Reach ($1,889). The upholstered Maxalto Apta bed is from B & B Italia. The relatively small space it occupies, basically an alcove off the main living area, serves as the master bedroom. The 28-inch Hope pendant light from Luceplan ($2,450) in the master bathroom has curved polycarbonate Fresnel lenses that sparkle with light from a halogen or a compact fluorescent bulb.
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SHELL GAMES "The intricate shell inlay of the iridescent low table by Andrianna Shamaris brings an exotic edge to a classic design. Handmade of teak, it measures 20"h x 18"w x 14"d."
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SHELL GAMES "The intricate shell inlay of the iridescent low table by Andrianna Shamaris brings an exotic edge to a classic design. Handmade of teak, it measures 20"h x 18"w x 14"d."
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WORLD BEATS "I love pieces that have a handcrafted, ethnic feel. A great source is Andrianna Shamaris, who is wonderfully gifted at retooling pieces that she gets around the world. She found the teak wheel I bought from her on Java, took it to Bali, and had an artisan inset mother-of-pearl chips into it. She also has place mats woven from vetiver root. The have an amazing scent."
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MIlite had almost all of the furniture custom-designed by Andrianna Shamaris, owner of eponymous stores in SoHo and Malibu (and next summer, the Hamptons). The basic idea, says Shamaris, was "to do less pieces, but the pieces we did were going to be huge." Again, wood--most of it kept natural and based on simple plank construction--is the featured material. Recycled teak, tamarind, ironwood, palm wood and mahoni, as well as sliced bamboo suspended in resin, add organic touches while softening the modern lines.
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AT HOME WITH... ANDRIANNA SHAMARIS For a city girl, Andrianna Shamaris is a bit of a beach bum. Every few months she jets to Bali to supervise the production of resin accented teak tables, shagreen accessories, and other pieces for her SoHo and Malibu shops. Lately, she can be found trolling the Hamptons in search of space to launch a summertime pop-up store. Even when she is landlocked in her Manhattan apartment, the beach is right at her fingertips. Stained maple floor planks are the color and sheen of sun-bleached sand. A sculptural coffee table recalls a piece of driftwood washed ashore, and her kitchen counter is built from the same material as surfboards. "A little bit of Malibu in Manhattan," she explains.
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Dinners, too, are often a grand affair. The couple's 15-foot-long dining room table, fashioned from a solid section of Indonesian mahoni, seats 24. "Our table for 12 from the old apartment looked like a toying here," says Khan, who found the piece at Andrianna Shamaris.
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Andrianna Shamaris, who owns home furnishings stores in Malibu, Calif., and SoHo in Manhattan, travels regularly to Indonesia to scavenge for raw materials like tamarind wood, bamboo and antique fabrics, which she then hires local craftsmen to fashion into oversize, organic furniture and ethnic-chic clothing. Halle Berry, Pierce Brosnan, and Britney Spears are some of her West Coast customers. "I wear all natural elements," said the British-born Ms.Shamaris. "I love colorful prints and things that are really sexy." "I love thins that fall on the hip," she said, "and I like to mix old textiles with something gorgeous and expensive." Comfort too is a watchword.
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Ms. Shamaris, who lived in Indonesia for more than a year after leaving London, her childhood home, imports furniture and clothing -- including items of her own design -- from Bali, Sumatra and Madura. With warm natural materials, clean lines and simple silhouettes, her funiture is at once modern and exotic, primitive and sophisticated -- more Christian Liaigre than Pier 1. She helped pack more than 90 items (70 of them pieces of furniture) into the container bound for Mr. Milite's home while on one of her periodic buying expeditions in Indonesia in May. The contents included recycled teak slab and rattan sofas, a bed made of salvaged timbers, hand carved sculptures of tamarind wood, raffia pillows, chopsticks and lacquered palm wood bowls.
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