Home Kelly and Gerald Ford is the home of billionaires in modern Texas. The hostess and her sister worked with the interior. Texas Dallas for many years associated with the place where the events of the same television series unfold. All of America watched the life of a wealthy Texas Ewing family, prospering in agriculture and oil production. The series “Who shot at JR?” Became an American record, it attracted an incredible number of viewers, and its name became a nationwide meme. Recently, Dallas is changing its reputation. Few people remember him as the city where President Kennedy was assassinated. Today, Art District, a district with a large concentration of galleries and exhibition spaces, plays a special role, and the Nasher Sculpture Garden, popular in the United States. And this reputation is much more refined than what the restless Ewing family presented to Dallas.

Designer and owner of a luxury home, mother of Kelly Ford family. Valentino dress. Room hostess. Cloth work of Charles Kelly. On the table in the Napoleonic style with a marble tabletop paired French lamps (Galerie Glustin, Paris) and a pink dish, diz. A. von Furstenberg. Wallpaper Phillip Jeffries. The large living room is divided into zones. Two chairs in leopard upholstery. Sizalevy carpet. A pair of transparent tables. French chest, trimmed with parchment. Top of the work of John. Koons Teddy Bear. The dining room is designed as a front hall. Mahogany table, diz. K. Kelly. Chairs of the era of Louis XVI upholstered in flax. Striped carpet J.D. Staron. The dining room flaunts a neoclassical order decoration. The luminaires are designed by K. Kelly and made in Syria. Painting walls with motifs of Malaysian Ikatas and a mirror in the shape of a solar circle fill the dining room with dynamics and brilliance. The first floor corridor leads to the home cinema, pool and wine cellar. Missoni carpet On the walls are wallpapers Phillip Jeffries. JF Chen console. Antique lamps. From the hall where the main staircase is located opens a view on the sculpture of A. Kapur Mirrors and consoles with marble countertops adorn the corridors and halls.

There is a saying: "There is more and more in Texas." She is perfect for the residence where interior designer Kelly Ford has settled. The huge mansion, a palace house measuring 30 thousand square meters, is located in the suburb of Dallas "Greek tortoise". Indeed, the Greek tortoise runs in her garden. And the garden itself is magnificent: well-groomed area of ​​more than 6 acres filled with works of eminent sculptors. Spouses Ford lead guests to look at the masterpieces of Anish Kapur, Aristide Mayol, Barry Flanagan, James Lee Biars. In 1990, interior designer Kelly Ford and her sister Kirsten Fitzgibbons founded Kirsten Kelli LLC with three offices in New York, Greenwich (Connecticut) and Dallas (Texas). For a quarter of a century, sisters have been designing luxurious capital-intensive interiors and obviously enjoying the process. Synergy, the combined talents of the two sisters allowed us to achieve excellent results.

Large living room. Wooden classic panels of dark color - the background for the works of P. Picasso and R. Lichtenstein. The sofas are designed by K. Kelly. Upholstery: Lelievre fabric, Missoni Home pillows.

In addition to a rich practice, Kelly and Kirsten successfully run the luxury Madison interior gift shop in the Haviland Park Village in Dallas. Together they made out the new home of the Fords in Dallas. Kelly's husband, a banker and billionaire Gerald Ford, a Texan born, bought the estate in 2006. Here was a mansion, which a large family, arranging noisy crowded parties, considered small and modest. The house was demolished, and in its place erected a new one, suitable in size and scale.

The huge mansion, a palace house measuring 30 thousand square meters, is located in the suburb of Dallas "Greek tortoise". The garden itself is magnificent: well-groomed area of ​​more than 6 acres filled with works of outstanding sculptors. The main house is surrounded by spacious terraces with lounge areas. Gerald Ford, a Texan born, bought this estate in 2006. Regular park with topiarny forms. In the park with straight alleys there are flower gardens, parterres and swimming pools of the correct form. The regular Ford park is built on the principle of symmetry. The pavilions are set around the pool. One of the pavilions with a seating area. Under the gallery is a vast space - a real outdoor living room with a summer fireplace. На стене - произведение Ф. It's lying. Reservoirs are built as mirrors so that they double the height of trees and buildings. All reservoirs have rectangular shapes. Bright sculpture Anish Kapoor is called Blood Mirror. View from the terrace to the garden, bosquets and oaks. Sculpture by A. Maillol. All parts of the park and garden have axes of symmetry. One of the corners of the park Fords. For ten years, the Fords Garden has become a luxurious regular park.

Fords have long collected contemporary art, so all rooms are filled with large-scale works of contemporary art, the works of Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, Picasso, Matisse, Liechtenstein. “Kirsten and I harmonized the vast spaces of this house through active color,” says Kelly Ford. “From our large collection, we chose works with intense color.” The décor is built on a combination of antiques, vintage American and French items, as well as furniture designed by the sisters themselves and made to order. A place where comfort and luxury go side by side with each other.

The dining room is designed as a front hall. Mahogany table, diz. K. Kelly. Chairs of the era of Louis XVI upholstered in flax. Striped carpet J.D. Staron. Living room. The sisters are not afraid of glamor, pink and purple caped sofas are not afraid of them. Foyer. On the wall is the work of A. Matisse from the “Jazz” series. At the table - Baroque Egg with Bow D. Koons. Foyer. There is marble on the floor, with a large pattern in the late David Hicks style. On the wall is the work of A. Matisse from the “Jazz” series. At the table - Baroque Egg with Bow D. Koons. The walls of the lobby are painted in bright yellow shades. Family living room with access to the terrace and a magnificent view of the garden. Chinese lacquered tables, Chinese white and blue porcelain. The walls are covered with silk with a blue-white print, Shumacher. Bedspreads Hermès. Sofa, diz. C. Kelly, Clarence House. The pillows are covered with silk velvet, Madeline Weintrib. Striped carpet La Mar, Interior Resources. Blue cabinet. The coffee table is trimmed in leather. On the couch velvet pillows with monograms that the sisters sell in their store Madison. Desktop mistress deployed to the window. The view of your favorite garden helps to get distracted. Kitchen Kelly Ford considers a real heart at home. Cabinets are designed by Kirsten Kelly. All facades are trimmed with eben. Countertops - marble. Refrigerator with stainless steel housing Sub-Zero. Plate Wolf. Oak parquet herringbone. In the bedroom, as in the lobby, bright yellow shades are used. Marble staircase spirals. Kelly Ford on a vintage motorcycle husband Harley Davidson. Sculpture A. Kapoor.

The house was built from scratch, and nothing prevented the owners from interpreting the new building in any style. Spouses Fords chose a proven American neoclassical, fashionable and pompous. In the huge house there are halls with rich decoration: cornices, fireplaces, pilasters. In other rooms there are flat ceilings, but the walls are covered with buiseri panels. There are living rooms in which the classic sounds only in the pattern of marble floors. Based on the basic principle of symmetry, Kelly Ford forms large compositions using paired stools, paired lamps, tables, chairs and so on. The center of these compositions are doorways, fireplaces, large mirrors, and paintings.

Ванная комната Келли. Стены покрыты бледно-голубым лаком. Антикварная мраморная ванна. На стене светильники из муранского стекла, Barovier & Toso. Орнамент на полу навеян фирменной полоской Missoni.

Late Hicks English decorator David Hicks (1929–1998), a specialist in the reconstruction of classical interiors and a lover of shocking shades (red, pink and orange) is the idol of both sisters, and his projects and especially the ability to combine antiques, vintage and ultramodern things are a source of ideas for interior solutions . Kelly emphasizes that they especially appreciate his late period, when Hicks boldly introduced oriental motifs into the interiors and skillfully operated on geometric patterns, especially on carpets.