Mansion With A Mission
Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach Returns
The Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach is back – and 19 award-winning design firms have made the Plantation-style home in West Palm Beach a real showstopper.
The annual event not only offers visitors a view of décor extraordinaire but benefits Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County.
This year’s home, owned by interior designer Lars Bolander, is open to the public through March 1. Although this is the third year for the Palm Beach County event, designers have been transforming Manhattan homes for similar shows for the past 47 years.
“This year’s incredible talent is comprised of local, national and international designers, and we are so grateful for their support in raising critical programming funds for the 17,000 children served by both organizations,” says James Druckman, president and CEO of the New York Design Center and president of the board of the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, in a press release.
The designers had three months to transform the four-bedroom, five-bathroom, 8,751-square-foot home, along with two guest houses, a large garden and a pool house. Even the front garden was converted into a lush space.
The vestibule, hallway and powder room were united in a contemporary transitional style with framed wall panels in a dark wood trim with three-dimensional suede inserts. The master bedroom, which offers stunning views of the garden and pool, sports blue-and-white wallpaper resembling Portuguese tile, a vintage bed and floor-to-ceiling window treatments.
In the great room, high-gloss, built-in bookcases painted in Benjamin Moore’s Custis Salmon stretch across an entire wall. Each nook and cranny is unique, a testament to the designers’ talent and creativity.
Visit kipsbaydecoratorshowhouse.org.