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    Patina Style
    Patina Style
    Patina Style
    Ebook179 pages51 minutes

    Patina Style

    By Brooke Giannetti

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    The Giannettis have developed a home design style that embraces age, patina, weathered and worn surfaces, and rough surfaces. Patina Style is a color palette, a romance with subtlety, an attraction to natural materials and architectural details. It is at once old-world, contemporary, and mildly industrial. Patina Style gives insight into materials choices, methods and treatments that result in spaces that celebrate beauty in the old, the imperfect, the slightly roughed-up.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGibbs Smith
    Release dateSep 1, 2011
    ISBN9781423622543
    Patina Style
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    Brooke Giannetti

    Brooke Giannetti and Steve Giannetti are the owners of Giannetti Home, a full-service architecture, interior, and landscape design firm as well as a home furnishings store. Their work has been featured in numerous national magazines, newspapers and books, including Veranda, Coastal Living and the New York Times

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      Patina Style - Brooke Giannetti

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      Introduction

      Life isn’t about the things you own but about the experiences you have with them. Patina Style embraces the life in things: the newel post worn smooth where hands always land, the leather trunk that bears the rubs and scratches of global travel, velvet that is faded, silver that is tarnished, or a flowerpot embedded with moss. This is the essence of Patina Style, a design philosophy that has evolved through our own lives, both personal and professional.

      It all began when, after years of designing for other people, we had the opportunity to relocate our offices, redecorate our home, and open a store. Rather than one of us taking the lead, we visited antique shows and swap meets together and bought the items that we both loved. We designed furniture we wanted but couldn’t find anywhere. We brought all the elements that we had collected together, and a new look emerged, featuring aged fabrics, gilded objects, rich leathers, roughened woods, and industrial artifacts. Our personal style began to come forth as a reflection of our personalities. That special chemistry that is created from the dynamic interplay of opposites, masculine/feminine, simple/decorative, industrial/gilded, came together; as in a marriage.

      Patina Style also grew from a desire to add meaning and calm to our surroundings. It was born of a palette of warm neutral colors—soft creams, gray-greens, and calm blues—that create serenity. We gravitated towards materials that felt real and that age gracefully over time—pine or oak floors, plaster walls, and natural finishes. We chose objects that showed the artist’s touch and the creative process at work. We wrote about the transformations on our Velvet and Linen blog. As we wrote, our design philosophy was clarified. Positive comments followed, magazine inquiries came and we developed the ideas further.

      We have asked ourselves why our style resonates with so many; why people respond to the beauty of Velvet and Linen; why the flea market items and antiques that we feature in our store, Giannetti Home, strike such a reverberating chord. When we bring antiques and other artifacts from the past into our homes, we connect with the stories behind them, the people who created and used them. That’s what people love about countries like Italy and France—the idea that these places have a patina, or history.

      Objects also carry the history of people’s interactions with them and the effects of nature on their surface. We have three wonderful children and know that the typical decorated home is not compatible with a real family’s life. In fact, the imperfections that come from or kids dinging the floors and the furniture come to mean something different to us. Just like the patina of a fine antique can be celebrated, our own family patina becomes important. We come to cherish the wears and tears of life, to know things are precious precisely because of their imperfections.

      We challenge the conventional wisdom that it’s easier to play it safe. We want to create spaces with emotional impact, spaces that celebrate the beauty in the old, the imperfect, the slightly roughed-up. We are not antique experts. In fact, we prefer not to know an item’s provenance but to react to it viscerally. On our frequent excursions to flea markets and antique stores, we buy things because we love them, because they have great proportions, beautiful styling, simplicity, and a sense of history.

      These Swedish antiques capture our love of rustic and refined, and their beautiful gray color is one of the foundations of our palette.

      We design with the whole family in mind. Children need places that both serve a purpose and ignite curiosity. A children’s study can spring from the idea of creating a workshop for learning, starting with a steel gray wall to enclose the space and old wooden library chairs, framed vintage photos of Europe, and industrial lighting to transport them to a simpler past, while the laptop poised on a newly minted metal desk

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