Loft With a Lift

Interior designer Kenneth Brown wanted the living room  to mix textures. A large-scale pattern on the walls helps to keep the space grounded. Kenneth’s technique for creating small “rooms” within the vast floor space was to use movable walls. Take the living room and kitchen, which share the first floor. The installation of a flowing floor-to-ceiling curtain between the two gives each room a sense of privacy. Two patterns—a formal, tone-on-tone wallpaper and a warm plaid in eggplant, green, and taupe used on both the back of the fabric partition and on the window panels—bridge the design scheme. Enhancing the soft-wall effect, the oversized damask wallpaper visually cushions hard architectural elements—and keeps attention from heading straight out the window.

Sources:
Sofa (“Bogart Sofa,’’ custom); sofa fabric (camel mohair); chandelier (“Tall Delavize Chandelier’’): Wilton Cordrey Collection, 213/742-1900, wiltoncordrey.com, trade only.
Coffee table (#60B-601M); brunching table with gold leaf (by Garcia): Century Designer Showroom, 231/741-9030, trade only.
Vase and bowl with balls on coffee table: JTA Diverse Furniture Showroom, 213/746-3122, trade only.
Side table (“Occasional Side Table’’ #S1014051 by Pride Sasser); black leather chairs (#430-01 by Whittemore Sherrill): Filbert & Fig, 213/748-8324, trade only.
Teak end table (“Sugar Gear table’’): JTA Diverse Furniture, 213/746-3122, trade only.
Plaid drapery (#26007-830): Kravet/Lee Jofa, 213/741-8600, trade only.
Zebra chairs (#7112): Lippman & Lippman Furniture Manufacturing, 213/741-0666, trade only.
Painting (“Burgundy Dream,” by Fillipo Ioco): Soicher-Marin Gallery, 310/679-5000.
Greenery: The Tropics Inc., 323/469-1682, thetropicsinc.com.