VERANDA Designer Visions Showcase features pieces from BAC

Hearst Magazines just unveiled its seventh Designer Visions showcase with a gala celebration last night. For the annual program Elle Decor, House Beautiful and VERANDA each selected a designer to appoint an apartment that reflects both the magazine and their own unique vision. This year, the event takes place in the historic Walker Tower, an Art Deco gem by architect Ralph Thomas Walker, completed in 1929, that was just converted into luxury condominiums by JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group. The apartments are the site for a number of exclusive gatherings hosted by Hearst throughout the fall season.
Carlos Aparicio, owner and principal of Aparicio + Associates, as well as BAC, was chosen to represent VERANDA in 2013. The designers are encouraged to derive inspiration from an imagined client, and Aparicio, appropriately, opted to create a home for a collector of 20th century antiques, allowing for the exploration of how one might live with a collection of fine design and art in a dynamic and personal way.BAC lent a number of its most treasured pieces for the interiors, including Andre Arbus’s iconic parchment-covered bateau daybed of 1937 and a spectacular one-off chandelier designed by Swedish Arts and Crafts master Carl Westman for his brother. VERANDA, with Editor in Chief Clinton Smith now at the helm, will publish the apartment as a feature in the January-February 2014 issue.

You can take a virtual tour of the space right now with Aparicio and VERANDA editor Carolyn Englefield by clicking though the following link, or entering the URL into your browser: www.veranda.com/designervisions

In photo banner above: Designer Visions Journal, a promotional publication distributed to visitors; Carlos Aparicio; master bedroom with important Jules Leleu bed from BAC.