Vicente Wolf Blog

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been recuperating from my pneumonia nightmare, but being a true Capricorn, it hasn’t stopped me from doing two installations – one last week and one the week before, three days after I got out of the hospital! Though draining, it was fulfilling to see these jobs that I’ve been working on for the last two years come together.

The first one is a house in Long Island – on the water with great views of marshes and airplanes landing at Kennedy airport – was quite different in that there were ten bedrooms, a humungous kitchen and medium-sized public spaces, a dining table that sits 24 and a client who has been really superb in being open to great ideas. This project was much more colorful than the average thing I do and each of the ten bedrooms was a different color ranging from turquoise to lavender to pink to blue.

The second, which came the following week, is an extraordinarily beautiful house in Scarsdale, with incredible architectural detail. It is a true gem of a house with 30ft x 13ft windows overlooking beautiful grounds, a space that was approached with a slightly different emotion than most of my other spaces. The client wanted it very minimal, a mixture of mid-century pieces and with a clear sense of ‘less is more’ incorporating wonderful open expanses of space. We worked with an artist in creating a room divider between the kitchen and the family room that is really a ‘Wow’. Made out of wood, this screen is reminiscent of a midcentury design sitting in a frame of steel that is 10ft square – it really gave the space a wonderful juxtaposition between industrial, natural and mid-century.

Certainly halfway through these installations I was laying down on the floor just to stretch my lungs, but I was delighted with the fact that I could be active and do what I love to do, which is creative work, seeing one’s vision come to life.