Szymanski found at flea markets in Paris, London, Sicily, Rome and the Catskills. Most of the restaurant’s tableware is a mishmash of secondhand china, cutlery and glasses that Ms. Howard originally wanted chandeliers that recalled the custom lighting created for Le Coucou by the interior design firm Roman and Williams before settling on the prefabricated Hayes chandelier from West Elm, which starts at $500. Ogrodnek also created wood bases for the tables at Lord’s, as well as its curvy wooden banquettes and the three arched wood shelving units behind the bar, whose shape was inspired by the bar at the upscale French restaurant Le Coucou. Howard’s call for carpenters on Instagram. Other tabletops were made with black walnut by Joe Ogrodnek, the former chef of Battersby in Brooklyn, who answered Ms. Other interior walls were painted with Benjamin Moore’s Hunter Green, a deep emerald color that starts at $53 a gallon. Instead, they hired a painter to apply Portola Paints’ Patagonia, a cream-colored Roman clay, or plaster finish, that starts at $26 a quart. To balance out the gold, the owners wanted some walls to evoke worn plaster, a look they didn’t have a century or two to achieve naturally, or the $40,000 to pay an artist and design firm to recreate. “I wanted more, but I didn’t want it to turn into Trump Tower.” “I was watching a lot of ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘Gilded Age’ for design inspiration,” she added. It’s the same faucet installed at Dame, where it “gets a lot of compliments,” Ms. Howard, looked an awful lot like a $1,000 brass fixture from Rejuvenation. And the bigger bathroom features a $132 gold faucet from Homary that, to Ms. On one dining-room wall, there are two ornate gold Amelie mirrors that Ms. Howard had bought after seeing vintage Campari umbrellas on the sidewalk outside of the restaurant Gem, on the Lower East Side. But the company agreed to make the restaurant’s green awning, and even to trim it in a gold fringe that Ms. Szymanski used the website Canva to design the Lord’s logo - its name in a handwritten font against a deep green background - she stopped by a sign company in Chinatown and found out it was closing. Her first purchase was an item that patrons would encounter before they even walked in the door: the awning. Aciar were not available for the project, so Ms. “I was torn between an English countryside home and something like the Polo Bar.” But Ms. Szymanski wanted Lord’s to look “a bit more elegant,” she said. In fact, I spent a lot of time getting rid of teapots because we took the space over from a tea parlor.” “We didn’t want this to feel like walking into your grandmother’s sitting room. “We didn’t want flags or anything overtly British,” Ms. The two restaurants also have distinct visual identities but share a common element in that both are British establishments that don’t lean into that theme. With lots of offal, including meltingly tender tripe and a potpie made with pig’s trotters, the nose-to-tail menu at Lord’s could be described as a fancier and meatier sibling to Dame’s menu. Though double their interior-design budget for Dame, the 25-seat fish-and-chips shop they opened last year in Greenwich Village, they had about four times as much space to decorate at Lord’s, which can seat 60. Howard said, adding, “I’m a perfectionist on a budget.”įor Lord’s, which she opened this month on LaGuardia Place in Greenwich Village with her co-owner and fiancé, the chef Ed Szymanski, the budget for interior design was roughly $400,000, much of which went to contractors and labor. “It looks like something you’d find in an English castle bathroom,” Ms. Wanting to spend less - these were toilet paper holders, after all - she took her search to the website Overstock, where she found a $37 brass replica holder stamped with the words “The Crown Toilet Fixture,” and beneath them, “Patent N: 15254.” Howard considered buying a Victorian-era toilet paper holder, which can cost as much as $250 on eBay. To complement the gothic Blackthorn wallpaper, Ms. The bigger bathroom (it’s still small) features House of Hackney’s Blackthorn wallpaper, which has a darker floral motif inspired by an 1892 print of the same name. The smaller bathroom is wallpapered in House of Hackney’s Hollyhocks print, an explosive floral pattern that’s part cottagecore, part acid trip. Howard, 31, paid special attention to designing the restaurant’s two bathrooms because when patrons leave the loud dining room, they should “escape to this pretty place,” she said. Four months into sourcing décor for her new restaurant, Lord’s, Patricia Howard became fixated by a certain fixture: toilet paper holders.
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