(Soft music playing)
- Hi, I'm Bessie.
- I'm Oliver.
Welcome to our newly renovated New York home,
which has also the Arje home.
The whole idea for the living room was really to create
this very grounded, modern but also very warm feelings.
So we designed this sofa.
This sofa's called the Noah
and the meaning of the Noah is to rest.
And we wanted the sofa to be this really, really deep set.
Everybody can sit here, four people together.
We also designed this beautiful coffee table,
which is called the Cosmo,
and each piece underneath the glass countertop is a symbol,
so it's circle, square and triangle.
So the whole vibe in this room was really to make it super
cozy and really just comfortable,
but still with that New York city chicness playing with
the darker floors and the lighter rug.
And also the contrasting colors of the beige sofa with the
Walnut wood accents.
It's something we really love in this room
that we did was to do these moldings on the wall to really
help lift the ceiling and create more of a space.
And it took us some time to develop the lime wash technique
that we did.
And lime wash is a really great paint to use because it's
also good for you.
It's got no chemicals and it creates this beautiful texture
and beautiful depth.
And a lot of the feeling that we wanted to create,
which will see throughout the whole home is this more
Mediterranean feel and this warmth of colors and tones and
textures.
So whilst the living room has that more chic element to it
and chic feel. These walls really help give that more
painterly and softer vibe and softer effect.
So another one of our favorite pieces
is this beautiful chair by Danny Kaplan.
they're all handmade in his studio in Brooklyn, New York.
And when we saw it the first time,
it just really gave us this feeling of this
beautiful ancient chairs.
The fit was from another place in another time.
And this corner, we really say is the meditation,
the morning corner,
the light comes in the morning and it bounces into this area
and bounces back onto this wall.
So it's almost like the safe space every morning that we
come to.
- And one of the most important additions to the living room
was this decorative fireplace.
We want to bring this concept of coziness into the
environment.
- And Ollie built this one by hand.
And he did this amazing Venetian plaster technique.
So this deep, we call it an Anthracite color.
It's like a real black-brown,
it's got a lot of depth to it and finished with this really
beautiful wax finish.
And we paired this painting above the mantle piece because
really the two blacks are almost exactly the same.
They've got all this texture and dimension.
So this is the library room and something that's very
special to us. That used to be just the dining room,
because the way the library room connects the kitchen,
you can really be here reading. And that was the idea.
When we developed the room. You can be here,
sitting open a book and really enjoy with a glass of wine.
Whoever, well it's usually Ollie cooking
and I can be sitting here.
So there was nothing here. There was no bookcase,
there was no library.
And we built this wall from scratch and it really is the
showcase for all the pieces that we sell on Arje.com.
Every single piece within the home has been either curated,
created or collaborated by us with different vendors from
around the globe.
That's something we loved doing.
And collaborating with this amazing woman,
Kelly from mess and plurge was curating book stacks
and selling them as real complete stacks to our customers.
And obviously you've got the beautiful Shearling chair with
the Ottoman called the Enzo.
- So, this is the chair that probably is main piece
in our collection.
We would say that is probably the interpretation of all
famous Shearling jackets,
where we're trying to create this kind of shape and form
kind of like a brutalist kind of concept together with the
softness of the Shearling Sunday edition.
So the Walnut likes.
- So the last thing we wanted to share in the library
was this beautiful painting by Lucianne.
And it really felt like this character that owned the space
and graced the space and welcomed you in.
And the beautiful lines had this rhythm and harmony to them
that we just fell in love with.
So welcome to the dining room.
This dining room actually used to be our studio for many
years. And it was something that we knew
when we first had the idea to renovate the home
and make it into an Arje home.
Was to create this space with the kitchen.
So originally the kitchen had a wall here,
and we really knew we wanted the sunlight to flood through
and create this fluid energy between the two spaces and
something that we have to highlight is these handmade
Oakwood fluting walls.
That Ollie literally made one by one rounded to create this
perfect. I call it the masterpiece of the home.
It's like the backdrop to everything.
Connects the beautiful vessels with it.
The paintings by Jessalyn Brooks,
which have this really gorgeous cubism filling these mix of
tones and textures.
And the whole idea in this room was to gather it was the
celebration of gathering, having people over,
being able to cook and hang out on the dining table for
hours. And this table is called the Tessa,
which does mean together.
And we paired it with chairs from Ben Cusik,
and what we loved so much about his pieces with ours.
It's the same black Walnut,
but with these cognac leather backs,
and it's almost like this sling chair and the colors and
tones and textures we did in here was to create
this very spicy, warm, Mediterranean mood.
So, Ollie is Spanish, but we spent a lot of time,
both in Spain and Italy.
And a lot of the inspiration from the home was really to
create this warmth of like an ancient world mixed with all
the modern elements that we have in here.
- So this is the kitchen.
So probably is the epicenter of the house for whatever
reason we are ingathering always here.
So this one probably was the most important renovation
process where we remake it three times as we didn't find
properly the texture and the color and the finish,
in a property that we were looking for.
We want to bring a little bit mood kind of like,
a grinding element into the kitchen with the island,
where we create this again with the Venetian plaster
element, that we create these kind of very like,
east lake kind of a feeling to surround it with
some wooden fluting the pairing in some ways,
similar to the diner room that everything is connected and
flowing. So the first,
the first thing that we want to in the renovation of the
apartment was to connect the kitchen with the dining room.
Then once, the first step that we did is to knock and welp,
open this arch and this wall that we thought
it will be something really easy,
but it turned into a very complicated process,
but it was probably the most enjoyful thing that we did.
We also custom made these cabinets.
where the base is very basic,
but we custom made it and using like
some organic paintings
of Chubb paint and Sony stains to bring this kind of very
Woody and Stony looking,
Together with the Venetian plaster counter top
And then another element that obviously was part of own
personal collection are the cutting board,
and again with the three symbols attached in the board,
the circle, the triangle and the square that symbolize
the three elements that run around the apartment.
Okay. So this is the bedroom.
So probably is where we put way more energy into it because
we wanted to create these kind of very sanctuary place
where body and mind and spirit rest.
We build out these where everything, everywhere,
everything is hidden. So you don't feel anything around.
- So we really curated the objects within this space to be
very earthy and very soft,
but also have these harder angles to them.
So we've got the Giselle Hicks vessels,
which we had referenced downstairs
with the circle, triangle ,square again.
And then these beautiful sculptures from RegiOnline.
So we already played with the two tone colors and brought
that into the bedding as well,
which is all natural linen made in Europe from Belgium Flax,
and collaborated with a brand called Cultiva.
And it really, the idea in here, like Ollie said,
was this beautiful sanctuary,
but also the space where we can rest for the day,
a different vibe to downstairs,
but still with the same harmonious field of the same
elements and the same textures that runs through the house.
So on this side of the bedroom,
we worked with an artist called Jenny Edgar to curate these
beautiful artworks. That's all handmade thread stitching,
and also carries through the same concept of circle,
triangle, square that really runs throughout
the whole house.
So we also want it to play with the geometric forms that
frame the bed and tie into the fireplace on this side,
married against the curve wall here.
So it's got this very cocooned, soft like feeling,
and it's just this whole setting has this real beautiful,
cozy, warm vibe to it.
So the whole feeling of this home is really to create this
experience of both something extremely cozy,
but also as if we've taken you to another place in another
time and all the objects that we've either curated,
collaborated or created,
we really want to share with all of you to create this
experience within your home.
- So, thank you so much for watching
and spending the day with us and see you soon.