{"id":185677,"date":"2026-04-04T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:44:07","slug":"a-shaker-heights-library-repurposes-panelings-from-a-new-york-city-penthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185677\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shaker Heights Library Repurposes Panelings From a New York City Penthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bauders insisted on retaining the original layout of the penthouse room, a challenge considering it had two large windows and the new space had none. Matiyasic and her team resolved the issue by putting the entrance in the spot once occupied by a window and tucking a closet behind the original entrance\u2019s double doors. The area where a window overlooking Central Park had been was left bare. Bauders plans to hire an artist to replicate the view.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Matiyasic furnished the room in an eclectic style consistent with the rest of the home\u2019s decor. The color palette was dictated by a 1960s Oushak rug and new pair of Taylor King slipper chairs in a chinoiserie-inspired orchard-themed pattern on orange velvet. She rounded out the seating group with a Highland House sofa ordered in a teal damask-patterned cut velvet, a 1970s Isabelle Faure coffee table with a sculptural brass base, vintage swivel club chairs reupholstered in gold velvet, and a new solid marble side table. The mix of old and new, together with vibrantly colored and patterned upholstery, injected vitality into a space that Matiyasic admits could\u2019ve become stuffy.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-router-slot=\"disabled\" href=\"https:\/\/clevelandmagazine.com\/articles\/riverrock-brings-frank-lloyd-wright-s-final-home-design-to-life-in-willoughby-hills\/\" title=\"clevelandmagazine.com\" type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: RiverRock Brings Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Final Home Design to Life in Willoughby Hills<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c(David) didn\u2019t want it to feel new,\u201d she adds. \u201cHe wanted it to feel collected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bauders uses the room as a library where he displays acquisitions such as a painting by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, two watercolors by the late British prime minister Winston Churchill, and the skeleton of an extinct marine reptile called a mosasaurus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWith the skeleton and other artifacts that I\u2019m going to be putting in there,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019s like a little private museum.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bauders insisted on retaining the original layout of the penthouse room, a challenge considering it had two large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-185677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}