9/21/2023 0 Comments Silo house interior![]() ![]() HH: Most members, including my clients, are outside most of the day, playing golf, hiking, swimming. ![]() How did that come through in your designs? ![]() I wanted to create a special and sophisticated “camp” for my clients.ĮD: Silo Ridge is a place meant for relaxation and family-centric activities. I had this idea of making it look like someone found an old Adirondacks house, but they had taken the ceiling out and left only the original chimney breast. Then we went for a site visit, and I saw the 22-foot-high chimney breast in the double-height living room. This was achieved with a lot of reclaimed wood on the exteriors. HH: In one of the first meetings for the project, I learned that Silo Ridge was designed to eventually look like an Adirondacks camp. I still have that same bulletin board at the office today, and it still has the magic shop sign at the top.ĮD: What inspired this whimsical project at Silo Ridge? Hadley would walk by and say, “What’s new at the magic shop?” By then, I had found an image of a magic shop’s neon sign in a magazine, ripped it out, and put it at the top of the bulletin board behind my desk. Then one day, he came to my desk and said, “I’m coming to the magic shop to hear your ideas for a ceiling I need to find a paper for.” I remember going into every showroom at the D&D Building to find the perfect paper. We would quickly touch on what we were working on and compare notes. Every morning, we would have a meeting after racing each other to be the first at the office. The IngallsĮLLE Decor: Tell us a little more about the origin of the magic shop. Here, he talks about-yes-the magic of this new project (don’t miss the game of jacks on the walls!) and what’s up next for him and his firm.ĭesigner Harry Heissmann enlisted Artgroove to create an intricate pattern with natural materials like pine cones, bark, and acorns to cover the 22-foot-tall chimney breast. Recently, Heissmann designed a country home with family-first features at Silo Ridge, a members-only community in New York’s Hudson Valley. With a talent for unusual flourishes and for toggling between the classic and the truly kooky-like taxidermy squirrels high on a custom chimney breast or pillows for a kids’ room arranged to look like a campfire-Heissmann pursues a style he calls “client-centric.” Since opening his eponymous design firm, the German-born designer has become known for whimsical interiors admired by clients and fellow designers alike. “When I look at it, I just have to smile,” he says. Today, more than a decade after he left Hadley’s design firm and hung his own shingle at Harry Heissmann, Inc., Heissmann still has an illustration of a magic shop’s sign hanging on the bulletin board in his office. When Hadley, whose clients included ambassadors, first ladies, and the fashion elite, was in need of an out-of-the-box idea, he would stop by Heissmann’s desk-aka “the magic shop,” in a nod to Heissmann’s boundless creativity and flair. That was highly acclaimed interior designer Albert Hadley’s sometime greeting for Harry Heissmann when the designers worked together for nearly a decade, from 2000 through 2009. ![]()
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