We like it after we are able to play matchmaker, connecting a Remodelista reader to a featured designer.

Simply currently, we heard from rising British designer and antiques vendor Georgie Stogdon that an American shopper approached her after seeing her tiny London rental filled with antiques and traditional finds on Remodelista quite a lot of years previously. “She’s a tech exec from California with three grown youngsters. Work required her to be spending additional time in New York so she decided to go looking out an rental to lease to have additional of a eternal base,” Georgie explains. The West Village rental she in the long run rented “was full of quirks that had been far more English in kind: rickety distinctive floorboards, low ceilings, crumbling plasterwork—choices that can normally ship any person working, nevertheless they didn’t put her off,” continues Georgie. “She thought my apparent ‘English sensibility’ may be the exact match for the mission.”

Sadly, this was all going down on the highest of the COVID pandemic, when flights from Europe to the US had been grounded. So Georgie promptly enlisted a youthful NYC architect who had merely graduated from the Pratt Institute “to be my eyes on the underside” and do a survey and drawings of the rental. Then, over the course of six months, the designer crammed “a supply container’s worth of paintings, furnishings, and antiquities ranging from Viennese secessionist chairs, Seventeenth century tapestries to twentieth century weaves. There isn’t a single piece which doesn’t have a rich story.”

Every merchandise made the cross-Atlantic journey safely (“although there have been some furry moments attempting to get quite a lot of of the larger devices up the slender staircase to the best flooring”). Then the devotee of all points outdated and analogue wanted to resort to know-how to finish the mission, using Zoom to oversee arrange.

Beneath, Georgie takes us on a tour of the gorgeous outcomes. “It’s a small, serene home, whatever the eclecticism and, primarily based on the patron, the best antidote and juxtaposition to the hectic metropolis beneath her.”

Photographs by Matthew Williams, courtesy of Georgie Stogdon.