{"id":933842,"date":"2026-10-15T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933842\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:42:12","slug":"in-this-artists-1700s-new-york-farmhouse-the-chandeliers-are-made-of-disposable-lasagna-trays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933842\/","title":{"rendered":"In this artist’s 1700s New York farmhouse, the chandeliers are made of disposable lasagna trays"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The kitchen replaced an uninsulated 1960s space where, in previous winters, the family donned their parkas for warmth from October to April. Taped beneath the island, unframed, are two paintings Daisy and Rip made as toddlers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA lot of the things are just things that we dragged from the beach, or when we visited a friend, or from the yard, or I made out of bits and bobs,\u201d says Menocal.<\/p>\n

Menocal\u2019s mother, Katharine Barnwell, a classically trained decorative painter, lives with the family too. She chipped in creatively, including lending a hand on the dining room chandeliers, which Menocal designed and crafted from disposable aluminum lasagna trays. They cut the trays into leaves, flattened, bunched, and draped over utilitarian hanging lamps \u201clike a hula skirt,\u201d Menocal says.<\/p>\n

The dining room was\u00a0once a greenhouse, added on in the 1960s. Sunlight streams in, bringing with it the forest\u2019s chlorophyllous glow. In a nod to the room\u2019s past life, Menocal hand-painted white ferns over mellow, lichen-green walls. Climbing from the floor and reaching across the ceiling, they bring her dinner guests, she says, down to \u201cinsect scale.\u201d The butler\u2019s pantry at the far end of the dining room might be Menocal\u2019s favorite room. It seems to be glowing too, its walls a \u201ccheerful but mischievous\u201d Farrow & Ball Arsenic green\u2014\u201ca transition in energy\u201d between the ethereal, botanical dining room and the bright, clean kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The kitchen replaced an uninsulated 1960s space where, in previous winters, the family donned their parkas for warmth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,3430,320307],"class_list":["post-933842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}