Apollonia

Steeped in the moody mythologies of a lost era, the Apollonia startles tradition with supernatural beauty.

Shouldered by a mahogany pedestal by The Long Confidence, Roger Herman’s Untitled 122 broods with an instinctual potency against the suave forms of Torpedo Sconces by Carlo Nason for Mazzega.
Shouldered by a mahogany pedestal by The Long Confidence, Roger Herman’s Untitled 122 broods with an instinctual potency against the suave forms of Torpedo Sconces by Carlo Nason for Mazzega.

Location

San Francisco

Year

2021

Area

600 ft2 / 55 m2

Set piece to intimate, idea-frenzied victuals, the Apollonia regales in bohèmian rapture, nurturing psychic connections among intellects, aesthetes, and empaths. Rich lacquered woods, églomisé, and caned mahogany revel in ambient absinthe- and aqua-hued horizons.

Sebastian Errazuriz, Porcupine Cabinet, 2014. Lacquered maple, stainless steel, and glass. Edition of 8. Courtesy of the artist and R & Company.
Sebastian Errazuriz’s Lacquered Maple Porcupine Cabinet perplexes the mind, deliriously satisfying with its myriad, unwieldy yet enticing dimensions.

In the Apollonia Dining Room, the artworks serve as poetic contours, waxing and waning with a kind of experiential spiritualism as one revolves around the space. Their synchronicity with the room’s furnishings and other design elements is unorthodox, almost coincidentally psychic and perhaps even somewhat inexplicable. Yet the coalescence is palpable, invigorating the space and its guests with a generative energy.

Alex Prager’s Untitled (Parts 1) manipulates attention from the provocative forms of Sebastian Errazuriz’s Porcupine Cabinet as it peeks out from behind a custom verre églomisé dining table by Chroma.
Alex Prager’s Untitled (Parts 1) manipulates attention from the provocative forms of Sebastian Errazuriz’s Porcupine Cabinet as it peeks out from behind a custom verre églomisé dining table by Chroma.

For the Apollonia Dining Room, WHITE DIRT conjured the GALA chandelier, a new concept developed by designers Dana Harel and Frank Merritt. The imaginative centerpiece evokes the fluid forms and dreamlike juxtapositions of the surrealists, directly referencing works from Salvador Dalí’s classical period while also lifting allusions from Richard Serra to Rainer Maria Rilke to Schiaparelli haute couture.

In the GALA chandelier conceived by WHITE DIRT, jewel-like cast brass connections, fabricated by a lost wax technique, gently suspend the unique sculpted paper form in midair. the astral plane of WHITE DIRT Studio’s GALA chandelier.
In the GALA chandelier conceived by WHITE DIRT, jewel-like cast brass connections, fabricated by a lost wax technique, gently suspend the unique sculpted paper form in midair.
Installation view, Apollonia Dining Room at San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2023. Liam Everett’s Untitled (the smoke the feather the bones) effuses palpable chemistry with a custom mural by Rafael Arana beneath the astral plane of WHITE DIRT Studio’s GALA chandelier.
With its bold strokes of color and gestural application of both accumulation and erasure, Everett’s Untitled (the smoke the feather the bones) strikes a similar juxtapositional balance accomplished throughout the space, effusing palpable chemistry with a custom mural by Rafael Arana beneath the astral plane of WHITE DIRT Studio’s GALA chandelier.
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Shouldered by a mahogany pedestal by The Long Confidence, Roger Herman’s Untitled 122 broods with an instinctual potency against the suave forms of Torpedo Sconces by Carlo Nason for Mazzega.
Sebastian Errazuriz, Porcupine Cabinet, 2014. Lacquered maple, stainless steel, and glass. Edition of 8. Courtesy of the artist and R & Company.
Alex Prager’s Untitled (Parts 1) manipulates attention from the provocative forms of Sebastian Errazuriz’s Porcupine Cabinet as it peeks out from behind a custom verre églomisé dining table by Chroma.
In the GALA chandelier conceived by WHITE DIRT, jewel-like cast brass connections, fabricated by a lost wax technique, gently suspend the unique sculpted paper form in midair. the astral plane of WHITE DIRT Studio’s GALA chandelier.
Installation view, Apollonia Dining Room at San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2023. Liam Everett’s Untitled (the smoke the feather the bones) effuses palpable chemistry with a custom mural by Rafael Arana beneath the astral plane of WHITE DIRT Studio’s GALA chandelier.