Lustre & Shine: Boca do Lobo Presents A Jewellery Designer’s Home

Today we take a look inside the exquisite home of a New York-based jewellery designer and curator. This interior design project featured on Boca do Lobo has been beautifully put together by interior designer Jessica Gersten.

This home is a beautifully contemporary space – a construction of white, minimalist architecture. The designer behind the project wanted to create a strong sense of earthiness and connection to nature. Naturally, the choice was to incorporate natural elements with a focal point on metal and stone, contrasted with gold and silver. It is also a clever play on the owner’s business.

“We wanted a strong sense of earthiness in the home,” says interior designer Jessica Gersten, noting the contrast to the newly built structure’s white, minimalist shell. “We wanted there to be a connection to nature. There is a little bit in every single room.”

The connection to nature is enhanced via a link to the outdoors through a limestone-clad loggia, which can be enclosed with mesh screens and heated for indoor-outdoor living in the fall.

Further inspiration for the exclusive design came from the Amangiri resort in the Utah desert—a commanding arrangement of geometric concrete planes that artfully play off the region’s rugged beauty, decorated with items in natural materials, hues and textures.

This may seem an unlikely influence for an interior design project in suburban New Jersey, but the resort’s organic principles and monumental scale created a sense of serenity they aimed to replicate.

“In fashion, it’s about how textures, colours and proportions come together in one outfit. The same goes for interiors: playing with the scale of a room and how all the different proportions of the furniture speak to each other, and the texture of the rug and the upholstery and having the right balance of hard items and soft items,” she says. “So a little bit of each and not too much of any one thing.”

The result is a luxury home grounded in earthy tones and inspired by an elegant “Zen” sensibility.