BEAUTY: Interiors--Andrew Brown

Interior designer Andrew Brown was hired by a client to bring new life to a 1920s Beaux Arts condo on the edge of downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Last renovated in the 80s, Brown gutted the entire condo and started from scratch. Since the entry is windowless, Brown chose to embrace the darkness by swathing the space entirely with Schumacher's Tumbling Blocks fabric. The double height living room is long and narrow so Brown tricks the eye by lining one side of the room with antiqued mirrored panels to reflect the sixteen-foot windows while an 1860 plaster cast of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, once owned by the British Museum takes price of place among the seating arrangements. A hidden door in the mirrored panels conceals the stairway to the second floor where a moody blue guest bedroom, a powder room papered with a wild Zak + Fox print, a primary suite with a stately four-poster bed and a salon style wall hung with etchings of Neoclassical busts, and a primary bathroom clad in a heavily veined marble and papered in a sepia-toned Chinese landscape by Iksel elevate the entire home into a jewel box.

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