Building the Home for “Hummingway”
Inspired by earthy neutrals and fabulous textures, Actress and Entrepreneur, Ashley Greene’s “Hummingway” office space was an exciting and innovative collaboration from initial concept to installation.
When we first met with Ashley, we could instantly feel her relaxed positive energy and undeniable passion for her new company, “Hummingway.” As she spoke about her business ventures, we knew that her company was destined for a bright future and she needed an office space that reciprocated that energy.
We wanted this to be a space that Ashley could spearhead her business into success without feeling overwhelmed by overpowering color or eclectic finishes.
We designed her space to feel grounded, inspiring, and imaginative. We began by creating a few mood boards and renderings to get a feel of Ashley’s style. We quickly noticed her gravitating to femine neutrals, earthy textures, and a few understated-glam pieces.
We also chose to personify Ashley’s laid back feminine style by creating a space for her to showcase her high end handbags in a simple, yet effective way.
We created a sense of visual interest and depth, by painting the fireplace a soft taupe color and adding an oversized, circular shell mirror above the mantle to make the space feel larger.
Opposite the fireplace we added a stunning textured vinyl Crocodile print Phillip Jeffries wallpaper. The wallpaper acts as a floor to ceiling art piece, subtle enough to leave you wanting more, and nods at the custom snakeskin upholstery of the Bernhardt hammered steel lounge chair.
We wanted to create a sense of softness by grounding the space with a plush, cozy Shop MP James Rug featuring organic curves.
Hints of glam we’re added by using brass details in the desk chair, handbag shelving, and linear chandelier. We contrasted those metals by dressing them down with a burnt brass side table and hammered steel side chair. We didn’t want the metals to look too matchy-matchy with respect to it looking too juvenile; we wanted it to look like a perfectly curated outfit- mixed and matched just enough to look fantastic without looking like you tried too hard.
The final phase was dressing the space. We sourced from a variety of local shops including our own to find pieces of varying scale and texture. We wanted to make sure we would have enough items to fill the space properly while continuing to tell the same story that we did with designing the space. This phase involves a lot of mixing and matching, layering, delayering, rearranging, and rearranging again.
It’s important to get it just right in terms of color story, size, placement, etc. We chose to dress the shelves with books, crystals, Ashley’s beautiful handbag collection, unique art pieces and of course–the inspiration, the “Hummingway” packaging.
We dressed down the showstopping snakeskin leather chair with a cozy throw blanket and upholstered pillow. The desk was topped with a warm camel leather desk organizer, marble bookends that mirror the top of the accent table, and leather bound notebooks.
We had such a blast designing this space from start to finish and CAN NOT wait to see what amazing business ventures Ashley dreams up in her new space!
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