Designer Spotlight: Staging for TwentyTwenty Apartments

TwentyTwenty Apartment project
 

EWF Modern designed a model unit for the new TwentyTwenty Apartments in Northeast Portland. The goal was to create a compelling, modern look for a 2 Bedroom/2 Bathroom unit.

 
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Our designers chose a moody pallet to emphasize the Pacific Northwest sky, seen from the incredible floor to ceiling windows. To create a focal point, they painted accent walls and coordinated them with striking pieces of black, navy, and dark gray pieces. Our signature organic modern style emphasizes natural materials, seen in the solid wood dining table and slabs of marble.

 
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The TwentyTwenty building was designed by a talented local architecture firm and developer. Having worked with this developer in the past, it was no surprise that they thought of all the details, from finishes to the design of the lobby, and even the logo that mimics the floorplan!

 
 

First Look: New Arrivals for January

Sofa/Sectional 3032
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Sofa/Sectional 3032
Dining Chair 9501
Dining Chair 9501
Accent Chair 3651
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Accent Chair 3651
Dining Chair 9500
Dining Chair 9500
Desk 914
Desk 914
Coffee Table 5159
Coffee Table 5159

Designer Spotlight: NE Alberta

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When our clients moved into a town home, they wanted to refresh the space with a new design. As two well traveled individuals, their passion for people and places is evident in their collection of art and objects from their journeys, which we used as the creative direction for the design. 

The dining room is just off the front entry, so we created an immediate impact of both drama and intimacy. The double bookshelves elongated the room, the over-sized pendant made the space feel larger and created a focal point, and the overall composition was rich, warm and elegant. Two orange ottomans gave a pop of color and double as entry benches or extra seating at the dining table.

 

In the living room, we highlighted an original painting with a carved cabinet that visually anchored it on the long wall. This created a palette of modern earth tones that feel organic but also clean, bold and contemporary. The sofa, ottoman, accent chairs and rug were selected to be a soft muted pallet - comfortable, practical, and calming.

The third room, endearingly called the ‘snuggery’, was designed as a lounge space not only for guests (as there is a hidden sleeper in the sofa) but also for the clients to relax, read and watch television.

 
 

Designer Spotlight: NE Portland

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Our client in NE Portland moved into a newly built contemporary home. We focused on design for the open floor plan living and dining rooms, home office, and master bedroom.

Due to the high ceilings, fresh white paint and spaciousness of the home, the objective was to create intimacy, ethereal and serene palettes, and texture to make it feel cozy and still modern. The soft grays, taupes and mineral blues in the living room, offset by the beautiful artwork and fireplace, completed the look. The ergonomics, the actual feel of upholstery, and comfort of the seating were important.

 

For example, we choose a sofa that could accommodate higher neck support with a higher-than-normal seat density to strike a very comfortable sofa sectional, perfect for watching television or curling up to a good book and enjoying a fire. Similarly, the laser-cut leather armchairs for the dining table offer a molded generous seat for a dinner that could last into the early hours.  

As a painter and highly creative person who values ritual, our client lives a life of wonder, wisdom, and whimsy. Our collaborative goal was to incorporate her ideas and preferences which, according to her son, resulted in a “modern monastery!”

 
 

Designer Spotlight: Interior Design Spotlight: Modern Home in West Linn

Designer Spotlight
 

Our clients in West Linn needed space planning and furniture selection for the living and dining rooms in their open floor plan, newly built contemporary home.

They are a fun, young family with two toddlers and refined design taste, so it was important to find a realistic solution for their lifestyle. The goal was to incorporate their preferences of European-style furniture with a bold and monochromatic palette.

 

The home is open, airy and spacious so our designers chose furniture to anchor the space and make it feel inviting and intimate. They used the expertly selected finishes as inspiration for the upholstery - marrying the walnut detailing on the fireplace with the dining table, and coordinating with the bold black trim featured throughout the home. The eco- leather on the dining chairs makes it easy to clean up after young children.

The final touches included a selection of original artwork and handmade accessories that added pops of color and a layer of organic texture.

 
 

First Thursday with Emily Bates & Tricia French

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
6 - 9 PM


Emily Bates and Tricia French’s love and passion for the natural world synced up in this first ever collaboration. Each artist brought her unique approach of painting and world view to the canvas, and a harmonious dialogue began.

The Pacific Northwest inspired with its vast, expansive and ever-changing landscape, and the creatures and moments shared with it.

Blanket skies, the nurturing life-giving elements of water — coexisting in a diverse and life sustaining planet. Each piece creates its own resonance and message unique to the viewer.

Both artists will also be exhibiting select independent works, congruent with the series.

 

First Thursday with Arielle Zamora

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1
6 - 9 PM


Arielle Zamora is an artist who focuses in oil painting and printmaking. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where she received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2013. She is intensely drawn to relationships between line, form, and color, and she draws inspiration from architecture to help assign structure, repetition, and function to the two dimensional plane. Her work exhibits fine lines and marks carved into joint compound, and she enjoys exploring the unique qualities of her chosen materials as well as giving in to mistakes and the natural slip of the hand.

In her printmaking practice, she repeats monolithic shapes that call to mind the simple figure, and which are given aperture and environment in a 2D realm by using line to build a space, or home, for the forms. These monolithic forms, rocky and often visceral, are an homage to the large craggy rocks that wade like hooded figures just off the Oregon Coast line. They also draw up ideas of the basic human form, amorphized and stripped down to the simple space they inhabit.

www.ariellezamora.com