How a chance meeting and a chat about chairs resulted in a traditional home filled with modern moments.Call it serendipity: At a party in Toronto, a guest was lamenting how difficult it was to find dining room chairs for her new table. As it turned out, that homeowner was talking to interior design consultant and visual artist Penny Dimos. What luck!
After chatting about their shared love of contemporary art, classic modern furniture and non-fussy interiors, Penny – sight unseen – suggested that the Sala chair by Ligne Roset might be the perfect fit for her new friend’s dining table. And of course it was – the homeowner went out and bought eight.
Having recently moved into a house big enough to fit their young family, the owners subsequently hired Penny to head the design. Located in midtown Toronto, the 2,600-square-foot, four-bedroom brick-and-stone house had an unwieldy scheme: beige walls, moulding ad nauseam, Tuscan-style terracotta floors and an astonishingly badly proportioned fireplace in the centre of the living room. But the house was structurally sound, so the owners left it to Penny to suffuse it with style, making sure the modern elements worked within the ultra-traditional bones of the home.
Adding art
A placid view shows Toronto photographer George Whiteside’s image of birds in flight. “I love the piece and how it plays off the veining in the marble and connects to the outdoors beyond the nearby windows,” says Penny.
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