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Saddled with rooms built before California Closets, she commissioned seven custom pieces from Substance Design of Brooklyn — armoires, marble-topped bars, cabinets, etc. — with innards designed to accommodate specific items: a vacuum cleaner, an umbrella, an extra pair of shoes.
They have always rented a storage unit, and that's where their big bar cabinet is now.
But the living room, which is painted a warm yellow and highlights the couple's fondness for Deco (mahogany bar cabinet; Austrian armchairs), is almost equally inviting.
Today, Friedman favors a decaying-Versailles look: "deconstructed" wing chairs with exposed burlap and nail tacks ($1,435), or a bar cabinet built inside a reproduction nineteen-twenties German light-bulb voltage tester ($1,995).
They have designed for international brands, including porcelain dinnerware for Vista Alegre, rugs for Moooi Carpets and Tai Ping, a desk for Haymann, candleholders for Verreum, and a bar cabinet for the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, which will debut next month.
The set retails for $20,000, with options including a matching desk and chair, a computer hutch, a bookcase, a credenza, an entertainment center large enough for a 60-inch flat-screen television, and a bar cabinet.
The French bar cabinet from the 1950's (below), in black lacquer and satinwood, has new legs and is 53 inches wide, 49 inches high and 17 inches deep.
Loosely inspired by Hemingway's penurious Paris years, the collection featured a most un-Heminway-like carved armoire, a hand-painted bar cabinet and a cast metal bed with scrollwork leaves.
Additional load-bearing columns were built from stones collected on the property, and some of the first floor's built-in furniture — a bar cabinet and several bookcases — were carved from loose planks found inside the barn during its renovation.
At the foot of the bed is a sitting area with a settee and two plush chairs, and in the kitchen, which is seldom used for cooking, McKay added a silver-gilt bench, an Art Deco bar cabinet and an elegant mirror over the sink.
