Years back, on a shoot at Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire (see In the Dwelling House: 16 Design Ideas to Steal from the Shakers), the docent leading photographer Erin Little and me through the buildings pointed to a bank of glass windows.
Paris interior designer Marianne Evennou has a trademark way with color, but interior windows also appear frequently in her work, as Margot noted in The Ultimate First Apartment in Paris: A Brother and Sister’s Shared Quarters Designed by Marianne Evennou.
Photography by Gregory Timsit, courtesy of Marianne Evennou.
Architectural glass at the top of the wall carries light through; photograph by Serena Eller, courtesy of Mondador and Studio Strato, from Ping Pong House: An Architect’s Own Playful but Serene 19th-Century House in Rome.
Photograph courtesy of The Modern House from Subtle Colors in a Former Victorian Carriage House in Hackney.
Glass partitions between kitchen and dining area bring extra light into a small carriage house.
Glass partitions between kitchen and dining area bring extra light into a small carriage house.
Another Marianne Evennou project. Here is her own work space with see-through partitions; see Home at the Office: Designer Marianne Evennou’s Paris Work Quarters and Pied-à-Terre.
A custom iron and glass door divides kitchen from living area in this Rome project by Studio Strato.
Photograph by Serena Eller, courtesy of Mondadori and Studio Strato, from Roma: An Artful Twentieth-Century House in Italy in an Of-the-Moment Palette.
Photograph courtesy of Russell Loughlan.
Photograph courtesy of Russell Loughlan.
In fixing up a delipidated Georgian row house, artist, illustrator, and “serial house remodeler” Russell Loughlan salvaged a circa-1960s glass-paneled wall around the kitchen and painted it in Farrow & Ball’s Picture Gallery Red.
Interior clerestory windows maximize natural light in this redone loft; photograph by Rory Gardiner, courtesy of Mark Lewis Interior Design, from A “Modern Victorian”
Loft in London by Mark Lewis.
Photograph by Helma Bongenaar (@helmabongenaar) from Dutch Light: A Collector’s Vintage-Filled Home in a Former Tavern in Amsterdam.
Glass windows and doors divide spaces in the eclectic Amsterdam house of stylist, cook, and author Helma Bongenaar.
Another trick of interior windows?
Another trick of interior windows?
Photograph courtesy of Nomibis.
A vintage, reclaimed window separates the kitchen in a guesthouse in Reims, France.
A vintage, reclaimed window separates the kitchen in a guesthouse in Reims, France.
Photograph courtesy of Les Penates Reims; for more, take a look at French Lessons: A Designer and an Antiquary’s Remodeled Guesthouses in Reims.
Photograph courtesy of Les Penates Reims; for more, take a look at French Lessons: A Designer and an Antiquary’s Remodeled Guesthouses in Reims.
Photography by Matthew Williams for Remodelista; styling by Alexa Hotz.
Studio Oink use interior windows in their work often, such as this partial glass wall, actually inspired by turn-of-century Parisian buildings, in A Luminous, Euro-Style Row House in Washington, DC, Courtesy of Studio Oink.
Photograph courtesy of Ridge & Furrow from If a House Were a Well-Worn Coat: A Design Couple’s Snug, Earthy, Reclaimed House in the UK.
And Elle Kemp and Martin Gane, the couple behind UK-based firm Ridge & Furrow, added room partitions made from reclaimed bead board and paned glass windows throughout their own barn conversion; they, too, help to disperse the light.
