| Produced
by Barbara Landy
Photography by Kevin
Lein | FOR
FOUR YEARS IN A ROW, DESIGNER KATJA VAN DER LOO WAS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE
IN THE "MANSION IN MAY" showhouse, a charity that benefits
Morristown Memorial Hospital. That's quite a feat for the designer, as
well as a testament to her ability to meet a deadline; the project took
her only four months to complete. Having been assigned small rooms in past
shows - a closet-type space and a bathroom, for example - van der
Loo requested a bedroom for the 2004 program. "I like to create
timeless but eclectic interiors, and a bedroom is the perfect room for
designing that kind of space," says the Boonton-based designer.
"In our nutty, chaotic world, it's so nice to have a place to come
home to that's soothing and interesting at the same time."
ABOVE: Chrome sconces with white linen shades from Barbara Barry for
Baldinger frame a painting of a female nude by Christine Carter that
punctuates the room with bright color - "classic placement of things,
with a twist to make them modern," says van der Loo. She used the
home's original picture moldings to hang the art. The steel tapered-leg
console is from Desiron, New York City. Underneath it sits an antique
Chinese lunch chest from Ark Antiques, Moonachie. The teapot on the bed
tray is from one of van der Loo's Paris shopping excursions. |
