Steeping his New York home in the atmospheric palette of the Low Countries old masters, interior designer Steven Gambrel has bravely walked the line between dour and dramatic. Indeed, to offset the grave tones and lean proportions, he’s marched in reams of muscular marble, thickset fittings and the odd glug of the almost-ugly – ‘the vinegar you need to keep a room from being too perfect’, says the owner – as antidotes to the threat of soulless sobriety
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