Based on the movie Girl with a Pearl Earring, design legend John Saladino transforms this Soho apartment.

 “As one of the great Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, Johannes Vermeer transformed scenes of everyday life into masterpieces revered for their silent intensity, purity of light and form. Drawing parallels to his own work, renowned designer John Saladino chose the Vermeer — based film ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ as his inspiration for the VERANDA show house at SoHo Mews, a modern condominium building located in Manhattan’s trendy Soho neighborhood.”

Saladino used a gorgeous palette of colors inspired from the girl’s headdress of luminescent blues, rich taupes and dreamy whites.

The textures of this living room are so appealing to me with the scratch-coat plaster on the walls (which at first glance I thought was a velvet upholstered wall) and the soft cashmere throw on the table.

As well he used the wall treatment in the breakfast nook and dining room  for that rough-luxe look I love.

“Curtains draped throughout the house not only introduce an element of mystery but also help absorb noise in keeping with the meditative silence Vermeer’s artwork projects.”

This little vignette from the bedroom console is just lovely!

“I followed Vermeer’s philosophy, which was to take vernacular objects and imbue them with transcendence,” the designer explains. “I tried to give these rooms an almost ethereal light.”

This is my favorite room of the apartment. I love the colors, the soft muted light and the painting by Victoria Adams.

See more beautiful images from Veranda.

INTERIOR DESIGN BY JOHN SALADINO

ARCHITECTURE BY GWATHMEY SIEGEL ASSOCIATES

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANTOINE BOOTZ

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