Incollect Magazine - Issue 12

66 www.incollect.com The Refined Home: Sheldon Harte By Sheldon Harte Text by Mitchell Owens and Hadley Keller Copyright © 2025 The Vendome Press LLC and Harte Davis Interior Design Published by Vendome Press, November 2025 Available to pre-order through Vendome Press and Amazon FASHIONING A CONTEMPORARY APARTMENT, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA In this jewel box San Francisco pied-à-terre for his art collector, fashion-loving clients, classical millwork articulates the envelope, and a black and white color palette gives it modern edginess, yielding way to the clients’ collection of bold, color-saturated contemporary art. Above the fireplace is a 2007 painting by American Abstract Expressionist feminist painter Louise Fishman, whose vigorously worked canvases evoke the sheer physicality of painting. The ceiling is clad in silver tea paper, creating a shimmering, luminous effect. Contemporary Canadian studio Gabriel Scott’s Harlow chandelier projects a prism-like display with faceted blown glass set in smoked bronze settings, a look inspired by the world of jewelry. Facing the entryway on the left are a pair of 1930s Andre Arbus salon chairs. Arbus is considered one of the finest furniture makers of the twentieth century, whose distinctly French aesthetic was expressed in large symmetrical forms lavished with rich materials: intricate inlays, gesso, parchment, and fine wood veneer. Curved millwork with built-in shelves for books and decorative accessories creates a graceful transition from the foyer to this living/dining room. In a niche by the fireplace, a vintage beveled blue glass-framed mirror hangs above a brass paneled cabinet from Blackman Cruz. Nested cocktail tables, one in shagreen with brass inlays, one in glossy black lacquer, center the seating group, with the den and dining area, which overlooks the San Francisco Bay, just beyond. Photo © Trevor Tondro