Kelley Proxmire’s Designs on Display in New York
Local designer Kelley Proxmire will enjoy some marquee company starting next week, as she is among the featured designers in New York’s Holiday House Show House, which will benefit the Greater New York City affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
“This project is close to my heart, since I lost my mother to breast cancer,” Proxmire says.
She joins New York design heavyweights Charlotte Moss, Eric Cohler, and James Rixner (among others) in the Upper East Side show house. Her contribution is a bedroom design that nods to her 30th wedding anniversary, which she celebrates this year. The typical gift for a 30th anniversary is pearl, touches of which she sprinkles throughout the room.
The pearl color punctuates the chocolate brown and melon with the cream silk draperies, Stark carpet, and antique secretary desk, nightstands and chandelier by Julia Gray.
The bed canopy and duvet by Clarence House set the tone for the darker color scheme, which is picked up with the faux-finished walls and the band of melon on the ceiling. An 18th-century oval sunburst mirror hangs over the bed – a look that has come to be one of Proxmire’s signatures.
Artist John Matthew Moore painted these watercolors over the sofa specifically for the space.
The lamps on the vanity table were made from antique wood and gesso architectural remnants, which contrast nicely against the sleek parson’s vanity table. Framed family photographs emphasize Proxmire’s personal touch.
Proxmire designed a similar-styled bedroom for the DC Design House this spring, which also features the dramatic bed draping and mirror. Trish Donnally wrote about that bedroom and the home’s other rooms in our summer issue.
Another draped bed and mirror appears on her Web site, so if you like this look, you definitely know who to call.
If you plan to be in New York this fall, visit Proxmire’s bedroom at the Holiday House, which is open Nov. 4 through Dec. 7, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sunday and until 8 p.m. on Thursdays.
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!
I love the brown walls, the ceiling detail and the lamps on the vanity. What a sophisticated room, congratulations!