WATCH: Brooklyn rental goes from drab to fab in less than a day!
Welcome to Brooklyn! In this video, Elana from Page Six Style teams up with interior designer Kat Salazar, and Charlene Yang from SICOTAS furniture, to tackle a rental makeover like no other. From bare and uninspired to cozy and curated, watch as they transform a dull apartment into a warm, stylish oasis using natural textures, versatile furniture, and smart design. Featuring SICOTAS' Cas, Savanna, and Opus collections, this episode is packed with design tips, clever storage ideas, and jaw-dropping before-and-afters. Don't miss this inspiring home refresh that proves you don't need to own a place to make it feel like home.
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‘Breath of Life': Exploring the beauty and power of C.B. Fisk's majestic organs
Gloucester is most associated with fishing, of course, and, artistically, with painting (Fitz Henry Lane, John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Milton Avery, Joseph Solman) and poetry (Charles Olson, Vincent Ferrini, and don't forget T.S. Eliot's 'The Dry Salvages'). But in musical circles, thanks to Fisk, Gloucester is a world capital. The show includes models and photographs of Fisk organs that are near (Cambridge and Wellesley), far (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, and Minnesota), and quite far (Hong Kong and Japan). Opus 153, Wesley United Methodist Church, Muscatine, Iowa, 2019. Dana Sigall Advertisement As 'Breath of Life' very appealingly demonstrates, a pipe organ is about much more than the sounds it creates, regardless of how stirring or beautiful those sounds might be. Before an organ can make music, its own making variously draws on architecture, art, carpentry, acoustics, and engineering. Even when silent, it's a thing of beauty: a piece of magnificent sculpture that doubles as art installation. Fisk designates each of its organs with an opus number, the way musical composition are so designated. That seems altogether fitting. Opus 171, for example, is a continuo organ, much smaller than its more imposing brethren. That doesn't mean any less care went into its making. It's fashioned of white oak, walnut, boxwood, rosewood, curly maple, cherry, tin, and aluminum. Advertisement Opus 150, Christ Church, Philadelphia, 2018. Dana Sigall In addition to organ models and photographs, 'Breath of Life' includes drawings, decorative artwork for the organs, a pair of pipes (one the size of a chopstick, the other big enough to sit on a launching pad at a mini-Cape Canaveral), song books from the 18th and early 19th centuries, and a plaster cast of A vitrine displays a sampling of organ parts and tools used in their making. They're small wonders of elegance and utility, with names no less beautiful than the items themselves: 'languid,' 'reed tongue,' 'wooden beater and mandrel,' 'cut up knife,' 'toe cone,' 'toe hold gauge,' 'burnisher.' Opus 78, House of Hope Presbyterian Church, Saint Paul, Minn., 1979. Photo by Len Levasseur The show's wall texts are highly informative. Even so, this is the rare exhibition where visitors could forgo explanation and, simply gawking at what's on display, do so with pleasure and edification. That's how attractive the models and photographs and related materials are. In CAM Green's light-filled, white-walled exhibition space, the models look radiant. The organs are unique, like a fingerprint — or person — the design of each determined by the nature of the space it's sited in and the needs of the church or concert hall that commissioned it. Opus 110, located in Yokohama, Japan, is familiarly known as 'Lucy.' Opus 141, in Niiza, Japan, has blue lacquering. The pipes for Opus 146, in Glendale, Ohio, are arranged to form wing shapes — on wings of song, so to speak. Advertisement Opus 141, St. Paul's Chapel, Rikkyo University, Niiza, Japan, 2014. Scott Shaw The nine models are on a scale of 1:16: ¾ of an inch to 1 foot. 'They look like dollhouses to me,' a visitor was overheard to say during a recent visit. Fair enough, but lucky the dolls that get to live in such houses. 'Breath of Life' has a Fisk-selected soundtrack. It consists of organ music, of course. This is a very rare exception to the rule that music accompanying an exhibition is extremely annoying. Here it's not a distraction but an enhancement. For purists who prefer their music in person, there are organ performances in the exhibition space on Wednesdays from 1 to 1:30 p.m. A final note: The renovation of CAM's downtown campus continues, with reopening scheduled for this March. BREATH OF LIFE — C.B. FISK, DESIGNERS & BUILDERS OF PIPE ORGANS At Cape Ann Museum, CAM Green Campus, 13 Poplar St., Gloucester, through June 29. 978-283-0455, ext. 110, Mark Feeney can be reached at
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3 days ago
- New York Post
WATCH: Brooklyn rental goes from drab to fab in less than a day!
Welcome to Brooklyn! In this video, Elana from Page Six Style teams up with interior designer Kat Salazar, and Charlene Yang from SICOTAS furniture, to tackle a rental makeover like no other. From bare and uninspired to cozy and curated, watch as they transform a dull apartment into a warm, stylish oasis using natural textures, versatile furniture, and smart design. Featuring SICOTAS' Cas, Savanna, and Opus collections, this episode is packed with design tips, clever storage ideas, and jaw-dropping before-and-afters. Don't miss this inspiring home refresh that proves you don't need to own a place to make it feel like home.
New York Post
3 days ago
- New York Post
I gave my friend's apartment a full makeover for about $2,500 with SICOTAS furniture
This story is sponsored by SICOTAS. Finding the perfect New York City apartment is tough, but decorating it might be even more difficult. With so many options on the market, it can feel overwhelming to sift through endless coffee tables and couches, especially if you're not looking to spend five figures furnishing your space. Enter SICOTAS, an accessible, design-forward furniture company built on the principles of SImplicity, COmfort and TASte (it's right there in the name!). Founded in 2018, the brand offers elegant, versatile and environmentally conscious home décor — and I recently got to experience its pieces firsthand when my friend Brooke asked me for help giving her Brooklyn rental a much-needed facelift. Together with interior designer Kat Salazar and SICOTAS Marketing Manager Charlene Yang, we decided to focus our efforts on the two spaces Brooke uses most. We started in the living room; with little besides a sectional sofa and a few scattered plants as a starting point, it was the perfect blank canvas to bring to life. New York Post New York Post New York Post New York Post 'The first thing I notice about this space is all of the beautiful natural elements — the exposed brick, the high ceilings with those beautiful wood beams, the natural light,' Kat says. 'I want to take those elements and complement them with more natural finishes to really create a comfortable, cozy feel.' To play up the room's 'warm tones,' Charlene suggested a mix of pieces from SICOTAS' Savanna Collection, which is made with sustainably sourced rattan, and its waveform-paneled Cas Collection. SICOTAS One of Kat's top priorities was introducing some shelving, so she and Charlene sandwiched this console table between two of the matching bookshelves below — the perfect mix of hidden and open storage. SICOTAS 'Depending on the time of the day, you'll get a different look as the sun beams on the furniture,' says Charlene, who picked the Cassiopeia constellation-inspired Cas Collection to take advantage of the room's oversized windows and ample sunlight. SICOTAS To fill in the center of the room, Charlene chose this rattan-topped coffee table from SICOTAS' Savanna Collection. For a bit of contrast on top, Kat placed a white alabaster bowl filled with moss spheres, along with a stack of ivory-colored books and a few smaller accent pieces to match. 'We definitely wanted to bring in a lot of those natural textures to complement the architecture of the space,' Kat says. 'We found a lot of those in the accessories, but it started with the finishes of the SICOTAS collection.' The next stop was the bedroom, which was similarly low on storage space and didn't offer Brooke any sort of proper work-from-home setup. 'We really need to open this space up a little bit more,' Kat noted. 'The pieces we bring in should be a little bit more functional.' New York Post New York Post Page Six New York Post New York Post SICOTAS While Brooke's old oak nightstands blended into the exposed brick wall in the bedroom, these ones from SICOTAS' Opus Collection create a nice contrast, making the whole room feel more finished. 'I love that this style can go with so many types of design,' Kat says of the nightstands, which feature a fluted finish inspired by a piano's keys. SICOTAS Charlene and Kat chose to swap out the small sofa at the foot of Brooke's bed, replacing it with two of these shoe benches. 'Functionally, these are really great. We wanted to put something at the end of the bed where you could sit and put your shoes on, and it also has lots of storage,' Kat says. SICOTAS On the opposite side of the room, Charlene and Kat brought in this rattan dresser to introduce some texture and color while also offering plenty of storage. 'You can use it to store your clothes, but also as a TV stand,' Charlene points out. Beats looking at a blank white wall! SICOTAS 'You can use it as a vanity, as a workspace, however you want,' Kat says of this sleek computer desk. 'We put a little stool there for now, but she could always change it to a chair.'
