Nantucket Beach Home
Nantucket Sitting Area from Designer Frank Roop In a sitting area just off the dining room, a lustrous bronzed garden seat from the 1960s sits next to a sofa in Larsen's Uno in Eucalyptus. The coffee table is by Jacques Adnet, but the funky anonymous driftwood lamp keeps the feeling loose. Floor cushions are Pierre Frey's Erevan in Café. Roop added a punch of intense turquoise with a 200-year-old pair of opaline glass sconces.
Nantucket Kitchen from Designer Frank Roop The star of the kitchen is the tile backsplash of variegated handmade glass tiles that are reminiscent of the ocean, by Erin Adams through Ann Sacks. Roop collaborated with Dalia Kitchen Design on layout, technology, and cabinetry. The factory pendant light is vintage. The countertops are soft-looking jet-mist granite, honed to mimic soapstone -- but it holds up better. The bleached rift oak island is custom-colored a driftwood gray-blue.
Nantucket Living Room Frank Roop designed the living room's white coffee table with a Moorish-shaped skirt and high-gloss Hawaiian paua shell top that "looks like the inkiest, deepest water you can imagine," he says. The vintage surveyor's floor lamp has a custom-pleated teal shade. Roop makes all his lampshades — "they're key, they're like pillows." In the background, the dining area is lit by a faux-coral-branch iron chandelier, painted white, and vintage lacquered Chinese Chippendale dining chairs.
Moroccan Star-Shaped End Table To personalize the Nantucket beach house by architect Nathan McMullen, Roop created a Moroccan star-shaped side table with a black Tahitian mother-of-pearl veneer. Its bold opalescent hues compliment the blues, chartreuses, and browns of the striped upholstery fabric on the armless chair, Larsen's Samba in Caribe.
Nantucket Beach Home - Blue Abalone Shells in a Nantucket Home Designer Frank Roop likes to style rooms with crystals, pieces of wood, anything he stumbles across in nature that's compelling. "They're nature's sculpture," he says. His client found these abalone shells on antique finials in a French flea market.
An Artful Display from Designer Frank Roop A folk art shell house, porcelain glove forms, and a driftwood sculpture.
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