Catalina Gonzalez Jorba, founder of the children's clothing brand Dondolo, asks how design can imagine interior, who told the history of her family. Your lively house in the Spanish style in Highland Park is a blueprint for your heart, layered with color, pattern and kilometer -long hand -painted landscape background exchanges.
“I I wanted our house to tell a story, ”says Catalina Gonzalez Jorba about the Spanish residence in Highland Park, which she shares with her husband Santiago Jorba and her four boys.” It is the story of our family how we live. We are lovers of color and cultures, international trips. ”
Gonzalez Jorba comes from Colombia and is the founder of Donndolo, a number of handmade children's clothing in Colombia, which supports social occasions that enable mothers and children. Your husband is a private equity property investor and founder of Creu Capital. They met while the SMU students were married in Cartagena in 2009 and teach their active boys aged 4 to 13 to appreciate and respect a beautifully furnished home. The family's art collection, which is taken with the support of the former Temple SHIPLEY of the Dallas Museum of Art Curator Temple, focuses on works by living artists.
“I think the boys should love and live around sophisticated and elegant things, and if you are inspired by artists, it is an important part of this consciousness,” says Gonzalez Jorba.
Sees that Design and Briggs Architecture & Design worked together on the renovation of the two -story house that the Jorbas 2020 bought. The client was Pendragon Construction, one of the Santiago companies. The main architect Harris W. Briggs designed a 3,000 square meter addition to the house together with curved window strips and green painted Persian (or shutters)-all important outdoor elements of traditional Spanish houses. The Jorbas often talk, so that a new second door, which is reserved for visitors, conveys a feeling of occasion and formality. Inside there are more gracious arches, classic columns and courtyard on the courtyard of hand -painted landscape wallpapers.
Almost every room in the house is covered with a different wallpaper that is adapted for the room.
“When you travel to Europe, you will always see old houses with different wallpapers in every room, and so the personality of the room changes,” says Gonzalez Jorba.
The challenge at home was to keep it coherent, but it had a small advantage: the Dondolo line is loved for pretty flowers and bright colors, and as a clothing designer she was already an expert in mixed patterns and colors. Sara See, a textile specialist at Sees Design and wife of Designer Corbin See, helped her decisions.
Tropical Scenic Panels from Gracie were installed in the entrance, adapted with the type of flora that you would find in Texas, such as succulents and flowering hydrangeas instead of palm trees.
“The fact that Catalina wanted to carry out a two -story installation of Gracie Wallpaper in the entrance was so exciting because it is rare that they get a customer who understands it,” says Sara.
In the study you will find the colony wallpaper of de Gournay, a wasteful pressure that appears in the lobby of the famous Colony Palm Beach Hotel, but with tailor -made adjustments. Rosa flamingos were replaced by blue herons, watvögel, which usually occurs in Texas with gray -blue plumage that fits perfectly with a large painting in the room. De Gournay's silver metallic silk wallpaper in the main bedroom is by hand with subtle birds and flowers, a design that is inspired by a set of panels of the 18th century that are exhibited in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
“I love birds so much and they make the background pictures in our house something very special,” says Gonzalez Jorba.
COrbin Lake and his brother Ross-Schulleiter and partners in the family concentrated design company on the interior design and furnishings and work hand in hand with Sara See on patterns and color for wallpaper and fabrics.
“We try to achieve the right tension between all these different elements,” she says.
Legacy Antiques's contemporary Murano chandelier in the dining room was one of the first pieces that were bought for the house.
“Catalina and I went shopping one day and we both loved the selection,” recalls Corbin. “She wanted something to see from the entrance, a focus on the right when she went in the door.”
The rustic black and white marble floor of the entry and the complicated chippendal-inspired blacksmiths were the ideas of Gonzalez Jorba. They help together with an ancient Chinese art -deceo carpet that Corbin has found, the brave statement of the wallpaper.
Special design elements refer to the Spanish legacy of Santiago, including a custom -made crystal chandelier from Paul Ferrante in the form of a Spanish galleon for the breakfast room.
Corbin says: “I've always wanted to use one of Paul Ferrantes Schiff's Kronlebüchter, and the moment she saw it was like:” We absolutely have to have it. “And that ZAK+FOX Constellation Sky wallpaper on the ceiling over it ends the story.”
As a child, Santiago spent a lot of time in the house of his grandfather in Spain, which was decorated with many ancient Delft tiles, Gonzalez Jorba recalls. Corbin found a manufacturer in the Netherlands, which reproduces the old tile for the new kitchen baking splash of the Jorbas and a fireplace in the adjacent living room. An artist from the Dutch company personalized the tiles with drawings of their young.
Although the interiors speak to Gonzalez Jorba's feminine style, they are balanced to reflect the male side of the family. In the living room, the Braun-Lacqueris and shelves, the ancient marble fireplace and the strong carpet made of leopard printing are robust counterpoints for Ladylike sliping chairs, which are padded in Rose Cumming Floral Chintz. And a plump brown leather sofa in the seating area in front of the kitchen is designed with the boys. A play room was created on the upper floor, but nothing in the house is essential, including the formal dining room with walls that are inadequate with light red silk and chairs that are reduced in Seide Fortuny fabric.
“Happiness is not for the faint of heart, because as we all know, it's really something special,” says Sara. “This fabric also has a somewhat bright color, but Catalina did not deviate from her decision to use it. She loved the idea.”
Pink is clearly one of the most popular colors of Gonzalez Jorba -her Dondolo collections run from Blush to pomegranate and Fuchsia -so that the lake team led them to subtle interpretations for the interior of the house. The colony wallpaper from de Gournay in Soft Pink gives the tone for your study together with a abaca fiber carpet from Patterson Flynn to a reserved rose.
“The study is definitely feminine and very pink, but it's not too sweet,” says Corbin.
A tufted armchair-roller-striped fabric gets a certain edge with acid grinding, and the milling plant of the room is painted in Pink in Farrow & Ball sculpture, which has a price-brown undertone.
The study sells Gonzalez Jorba's love for color and unusual details perfectly, but the entire house reflects her heart.
Corbin says: “It's about what moves it; it is what inspires and drives it. She is the muse.”
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