How the authors of 'Patina Modern' mastered the art of display.
, describes their groupings as a mix of utility and folly underscored by logic—be it a similar material or meaning.takes its title from their love of the tension between old and new; between spare, clean lines and the use of materials that just get better with age, such as brass, wood, and bridle leather. “It’s modern but kind of antique; it’s new but it’s got this kind of patina,” Mitchell explains of the Patina Modern style. “There’s a coolness and an honesty to that combination.
That patina also comes from the fact that everything they keep out is used, cherished, spilled-on. They might stack stylish books on coffee tables, credenzas, and mantels, but in their case, they’ve read them all. Take their collections of Dansk teak trays, designed by Jens Quistgaard—now owned by Food52—in the 1950s and 60s. They bought their first of three sets of three trays at a flea market 20 years ago, not knowing what they’d use them for, just that they loved the way they looked.
Mitchell recently bought two of the iconic Dansk “surfboard” trays on eBay, but they rarely make it upstairs. “I have this funny habit of buying things and not doing a metric conversion,” he says with a laugh, recounting how he once bought a dining room table that turned out to be a coffee table. “The tray came, and I was astounded by how generous it is. We use it as a display tray because it’s huge.
The couple use trays throughout their homes to add boundaries that corral clutter and make things feel more resolved, says Mitchell, especially on mantels. “Things can be close together, as long as they’re contained on a tray.” Mitchell and Guzmán have many opportunities to rearrange their collections, seeing as they tend to sell their homes out from under themselves. “The last two houses we sold fully furnished,” he says. “We packed our clothes, our belongings—and our trays.”
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