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of Hart and Essex Bradley’s approach A green oasis
that we don’t see them, except through
the creativity and curation of their decor. New Orleans City Park is, stunningly,
As Hart invokes, “decorating is bigger than New York’s Central Park.
autobiography,” and each interior tells a story Established in 1854, it is home to
of a life lived and shaped by this city’s great cultural destinations—the New
character (“multilayered, authentic, soulful, Orleans Museum of Art and Louisiana
and original”). By its climate, too: while Children’s Museum—as well as
courtyards, gardens, and plunge pools speak verdant landscapes, populated by the
to the languid Louisiana heat, cracks in the world’s largest collection of mature
walls reveal the regular storm damage—most live oak trees. This grand 4,668 sq ft
notably from Hurricanes Ida and Katrina— property overlooks the most
that belies New Orleans’ “Big Easy” label. peaceful part of City Park, embedded
Yet, life and art abound in these interiors, in the sought-after Lake Vista
notable for their bold palette of “colors neighborhood. Constructed a decade
that only the light in New Orleans could ago in the historic double-gallery

produce.” The city’s distinctive style has townhouse style that defines so
never been about whitewashed perfection, much of New Orleans’ architectural

as Patrick Dunne, founder of the late and heritage, the five-bedroom home
much-loved Lucullus Antiques in the French benefits from a stately foyer with

Quarter, makes clear in his foreword. As he elegant curved staircase, and a
writes, it’s a style that “sometimes appears beautifully landscaped courtyard
to be vanishing but somehow manages, Left: A painting by New Orleans with an outdoor kitchen. Caribbean
artist Michael Guidry in the
miraculously, to perdure.” dining room of one of the pine floors throughout create a

Bohemian Soul: The Vanishing Interiors oldest apartments in the US. warm, sophisticated atmosphere,
of New Orleans by Valorie Hart and Sara Below: Intricate porch posts complemented by the abundant
and railings on a multicolored
Essex Bradley is published in March 2024 Victorian raised cottage panoramic views of greenery.

New Orleans
$1,495,000
sothebysrealty.com/id/M7Z3B5
Michael Bain, Axel Oestreicher
Dorian Bennett
Sotheby’s International Realty

Photos: © Rizzoli, 2024.

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