The painting Double Double Yentl (My Elvis) by Deborah Kass presides over the living room of a Miami Beach home renovated by William T. Georgis, whose firm, Georgis & Mirgorodsky, designed the blue alpaca sofa, the wenge end table topped by a Roberto Giulio Rida lamp, and the custom rug by ALT for Living; the yellow Pierre Paulin chair is from Ralph Pucci. In the breakfast area beyond, a midcentury Barovier & Toso chandelier hangs above an Emmanuel Babled table and Eero Saarinen chairs, and the curtains are made of Holly Hunt fabrics.
Photo: Richard Powers; Styled by Anita SarsidiWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
William T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
William T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
With a practice that spans disciplines, Deborah Kass creates probing canvases that bring the women’s movement into focus. “Her work is smart, it’s got chutzpah, and it’s beautiful,” remarks Georgis. Among her most influential series is “The Warhol Project,” from the 1990s, which was a response to Andy Warhol’s iconic depictions of celebrities and includes Blue Deb, a vivid self-portrait designed to look like the artist’s rendering of Elizabeth Taylor.
Photo: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
French artisan Emmanuel Babled conceived the home’s shapely breakfast table, which features a top with petal shapes in alternating blue and white hues. “His furniture is about materiality,” reflects Georgis. “It’s a modern take on the culturally rooted French craft of glazing lava. It’s joyous, celebratory, and happy.”
Photo: CARLO LAVATORIWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
Paintings by Nigel Cooke (left) and Derrick Adams animate a living room seating area anchored by a Georgis & Mirgorodsky sofa with integrated end tables that host crumpled-paper lamps by Bradley Bowers from The Future Perfect. Rounding out the group are a Marcin Rusak cocktail table from Twenty First Gallery and a pair of 1960s Giovanni Travasa rattan armchairs for Bonacina, acquired from Donzella, which also provided the Lorin Silverman chandelier.
Photo: Richard Powers; Styled by Anita SarsidiWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
Georgis tapped acclaimed Polish artisan Marcin Rusak to make the living room’s circular cocktail table, with its sea of botanicals suspended in milky-hued resin. “It reminds me of a Pre-Raphaelite artwork of a drowned Ophelia,” he says. “There’s a weird Victorian quality that pressed flowers have when they’re underwater. They’re almost aqueous, so including it in subtropical Miami, where everything is degrading, made sense.”
Photo: Richard Powers; Styled by Anita SarsidiWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
A John Procario light sculpture twists above a custom white oak dining table with a laminated woven-paper top by Georgis & Mirgorodsky and a suite of Warren Platner chairs from Knoll. The text painting is by Deborah Kass, lamps by Jean Arriau top a François Corbeau bronze cabinet from Twenty First Gallery, and the rug is by Patterson Flynn.
Photo: Richard Powers; Styled by Anita SarsidiWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
For a Miami Beach residence by William T. Georgis, designers John Procario and Alex Roskin used wood to form a bespoke hanging light sculpture. “I see it as a Möbius strip, which has a type of figure eight shape,” explains Georgis. The pair’s oeuvre includes this curvilinear floor lamp. “I also like that in a rectilinear room with more geometric furnishings, it provides a bit of freedom, like a line drawing in space.”
Photo: Courtesy of Todd Merrill StudioWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
William T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
To create his visually arresting canvases, artist Borna Sammak uses a process that involves repurposing motifs meant for everyday items such as T-shirts and beach towels. “His pieces have a graphic, punchy quality to them,” says Georgis, who installed two of them in the home. The one shown here, Camo Cargo Pocket (2016), references the camouflage-patterned shorts that Sammak has worn since adolescence.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, LondonWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
Panels of bronze-toned mirror line the game room area, which features a 1950s Stilnovo chandelier over a bamboo-wrapped bar with seating by Astele. The painting Enough Already by Deborah Kass hangs next to an Andrianna Shamaris reclaimed-teak table and Bonacina chairs.
Photo: Richard Powers; Styled by Anita SarsidiWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
“Functionally, the program in the game room is multipurpose,” says Georgis. “It’s where everybody can come together in a Latin way.” Setting the tone is a splashy Tai Ping rug inspired by lush gardens designed by Roberto Burle Marx as well as a spliced bamboo wall covering by Astek. Echoing the rug’s swooping shapes and bold colors is a large text-based painting on the wall by Deborah Kass, Enough Already (2009).
Photo: Richard Powers; Styled by Anita SarsidiWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
A poetic sitting area features a custom mirror by Roman sculptor Giuseppe Ducrot, who recently devised the Baroque window surrounds for the façade of Christian Louboutin’s Portugal hotel, Vermelho. The striking mirror frame is paired with a chic rattan Siesta lounge chair that design maestro Mattia Bonetti made for Bonacina.
Photo: Richard Powers; Styled by Anita SarsidiWilliam T. Georgis Transforms a Waterfront Manse Using Collectible Design and Exuberant Art
“It’s like a woman in jewels,” says Georgis of the elegant pendant fashioned by Brooklyn designer Dominick Leuci, who founded his studio in 2016. Inspired by leafy sea dragons, Leuci inflates stainless-steel forms and integrates them with LED lighting to conjure one-of-a-kind sculptures that emit theatricality and glamour.
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