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Gangway

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Right, hand-made interior doors throughout are custom rift sawn oak stained rustic gray. Left, the Phillips Collection Glass Face Wall Tiles sparkle like gemstones.
Right, hand-made interior doors throughout are custom rift sawn oak stained rustic gray. Left, the Phillips Collection Glass Face Wall Tiles sparkle like gemstones.
Pick a venue -- banquette, bar or bistro. The upholstered banquette with rolled metal toe plate and side walls is paired with a custom live edge walnut dining table. Or, follow the serpentine tile inlay to the hot seats, a pair of Lexington mahogany bar stools with warm gray grigio brushed leather backs and bottoms. The bistro table overlooking the city’s fashionable north end is furnished with Interlude Home Mila bar stools. All venues adjoin the salon that beckons beyond.
Pick a venue -- banquette, bar or bistro. The upholstered banquette with rolled metal toe plate and side walls is paired with a custom live edge walnut dining table. Or, follow the serpentine tile inlay to the hot seats, a pair of Lexington mahogany bar stools with warm gray grigio brushed leather backs and bottoms. The bistro table overlooking the city’s fashionable north end is furnished with Interlude Home Mila bar stools. All venues adjoin the salon that beckons beyond.
Pick a venue -- banquette, bar or bistro. The upholstered banquette with rolled metal toe plate and side walls is paired with a custom live edge walnut dining table. Or, follow the serpentine tile inlay to the hot seats, a pair of Lexington mahogany bar stools with warm gray grigio brushed leather backs and bottoms. The bistro table overlooking the city’s fashionable north end is furnished with Interlude Home Mila bar stools. All venues adjoin the salon that beckons beyond.
Pick a venue -- banquette, bar or bistro. The upholstered banquette with rolled metal toe plate and side walls is paired with a custom live edge walnut dining table. Or, follow the serpentine tile inlay to the hot seats, a pair of Lexington mahogany bar stools with warm gray grigio brushed leather backs and bottoms. The bistro table overlooking the city’s fashionable north end is furnished with Interlude Home Mila bar stools. All venues adjoin the salon that beckons beyond.
Pick a venue -- banquette, bar or bistro. The upholstered banquette with rolled metal toe plate and side walls is paired with a custom live edge walnut dining table. Or, follow the serpentine tile inlay to the hot seats, a pair of Lexington mahogany bar stools with warm gray grigio brushed leather backs and bottoms. The bistro table overlooking the city’s fashionable north end is furnished with Interlude Home Mila bar stools. All venues adjoin the salon that beckons beyond.
Pick a venue -- banquette, bar or bistro. The upholstered banquette with rolled metal toe plate and side walls is paired with a custom live edge walnut dining table. Or, follow the serpentine tile inlay to the hot seats, a pair of Lexington mahogany bar stools with warm gray grigio brushed leather backs and bottoms. The bistro table overlooking the city’s fashionable north end is furnished with Interlude Home Mila bar stools. All venues adjoin the salon that beckons beyond.
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Pick a venue -- banquette, bar or bistro. The upholstered banquette with rolled metal toe plate and side walls is paired with a custom live edge walnut dining table. Or, follow the serpentine tile inlay to the hot seats, a pair of Lexington mahogany bar stools with warm gray grigio brushed leather backs and bottoms. The bistro table overlooking the city’s fashionable north end is furnished with Interlude Home Mila bar stools. All venues adjoin the salon that beckons beyond.
Pick a venue -- banquette, bar or bistro. The upholstered banquette with rolled metal toe plate and side walls is paired with a custom live edge walnut dining table. Or, follow the serpentine tile inlay to the hot seats, a pair of Lexington mahogany bar stools with warm gray grigio brushed leather backs and bottoms. The bistro table overlooking the city’s fashionable north end is furnished with Interlude Home Mila bar stools. All venues adjoin the salon that beckons beyond.
Looking west toward the sunset and into the salon, the Arteriors’ Meadow Cocktail Table centers a pair of Interlude sofas over a 9-foot Safavieh round. In the lounge, the raw sheet metal fireplace surround echoes the gun ship's hull. Above, Beehive Organic Blocks cork the ceilings, below the Phillips Collection Agnes Root Coffee Table anchors the convo.
Looking west toward the sunset and into the salon, the Arteriors’ Meadow Cocktail Table centers a pair of Interlude sofas over a 9-foot Safavieh round. In the lounge, the raw sheet metal fireplace surround echoes the gun ship's hull. Above, Beehive Organic Blocks cork the ceilings, below the Phillips Collection Agnes Root Coffee Table anchors the convo.
Looking west toward the sunset and into the salon, the Arteriors’ Meadow Cocktail Table centers a pair of Interlude sofas over a 9-foot Safavieh round. In the lounge, the raw sheet metal fireplace surround echoes the gun ship's hull. Above, Beehive Organic Blocks cork the ceilings, below the Phillips Collection Agnes Root Coffee Table anchors the convo.
Looking west toward the sunset and into the salon, the Arteriors’ Meadow Cocktail Table centers a pair of Interlude sofas over a 9-foot Safavieh round. In the lounge, the raw sheet metal fireplace surround echoes the gun ship's hull. Above, Beehive Organic Blocks cork the ceilings, below the Phillips Collection Agnes Root Coffee Table anchors the convo.
Looking west toward the sunset and into the salon, the Arteriors’ Meadow Cocktail Table centers a pair of Interlude sofas over a 9-foot Safavieh round. In the lounge, the raw sheet metal fireplace surround echoes the gun ship's hull. Above, Beehive Organic Blocks cork the ceilings, below the Phillips Collection Agnes Root Coffee Table anchors the convo.
Looking west toward the sunset and into the salon, the Arteriors’ Meadow Cocktail Table centers a pair of Interlude sofas over a 9-foot Safavieh round. In the lounge, the raw sheet metal fireplace surround echoes the gun ship's hull. Above, Beehive Organic Blocks cork the ceilings, below the Phillips Collection Agnes Root Coffee Table anchors the convo.
Nathan Verwey’s mural, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s, “Christina’s World,” is the powder room’s muse.
Nathan Verwey’s mural, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s, “Christina’s World,” is the powder room’s muse.
Nathan Verwey’s mural, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s, “Christina’s World,” is the powder room’s muse. The Arteriors chandelier is mirrored in the vanity, also by Arteriors, above the epitaph” “A Little Hardcore Is Good,”
Nathan Verwey’s mural, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s, “Christina’s World,” is the powder room’s muse. The Arteriors chandelier is mirrored in the vanity, also by Arteriors, above the epitaph” “A Little Hardcore Is Good,”
Her Office - Vinyl textured Momentum Textiles cover the ceiling, bamboo planks the floors. A Lexington orange leather chair is parked behind a hide credenza perched over a Surya rug.
Her Office - Vinyl textured Momentum Textiles cover the ceiling, bamboo planks the floors. A Lexington orange leather chair is parked behind a hide credenza perched over a Surya rug.
Guest Bedroom - Momentum Textiles vinyl covering provides a textured backdrop for an upholstered Kravat fabric headboard, “Ortensia Persimmon” bedding by Robert Allen. Overhead the Nolan pendant, paired with Utica table lamps, all by Arteriors. The guest bath lacquer-finish vanity is countered with quartz and the sink is equipped with matte black Brizio fixtures.
Guest Bedroom - Momentum Textiles vinyl covering provides a textured backdrop for an upholstered Kravat fabric headboard, “Ortensia Persimmon” bedding by Robert Allen. Overhead the Nolan pendant, paired with Utica table lamps, all by Arteriors. The guest bath lacquer-finish vanity is countered with quartz and the sink is equipped with matte black Brizio fixtures.
The guest bath lacquer-finish vanity is countered with quartz and the sink is equipped with matte black Brizio fixtures.
The guest bath lacquer-finish vanity is countered with quartz and the sink is equipped with matte black Brizio fixtures.
The master bed chamber overlooks the River Place fountain and swimming pool. Kravet wool upholsters wall panels fabricated by Robert Lester.. Arteriors’ mid-century modern chandeliers cascade light on Eastern Accents bedding.
The master bed chamber overlooks the River Place fountain and swimming pool. Kravet wool upholsters wall panels fabricated by Robert Lester.. Arteriors’ mid-century modern chandeliers cascade light on Eastern Accents bedding.
Master Bath - Pebble floors greet bare feet, leather finished HanStone Quartz counters bare hands. Tech Lighting shines on the double vanity partnered with Arteriors mirror, Arteriors Thacker sconces and crypton textiles.
Master Bath - Pebble floors greet bare feet, leather finished HanStone Quartz counters bare hands. Tech Lighting shines on the double vanity partnered with Arteriors mirror, Arteriors Thacker sconces and crypton textiles.

Credits

From Marimar McNaughton

Wilmington-on-the-Cape-Fear River, a very pretty historic city where an eclectic mix of Federal, Victorian and Arts & Crafts era architecture connects the downtown districts to the Revolution, the Late Unpleasantness and the Reconstruction, is the easternmost of North Carolina’s five fastest growing cities.

Known as the Port City, its centerpiece is River Place, a 13-story highrise, three years in the making. Gangway, the name given to the structure’s northwest penthouse, looks toward the city’s up-and-coming north end, all of the downtown historic districts, east, and the Cape Fear River basin, west. This round-peg-in-a-square-hole showplace, completed in October 2020, was custom designed by Danielle Saintard Valiente of Port City Design Group and Rob Romero, AIA.

Overthrowing common coastal east-is-right and west-is-left perspectives, Port City Design Group and Romero Architecture reinterpreted the interior floorplan by breaking down a few past-their-prime idioms.

Instead, less nailing, more streaming. Hard corners are replaced with supple curves like the nearby river’s layered currents; and boxy soffits are re-configured into fluid circular forms. Resilient bamboo floor planks are softened with serpentine tile inlays, while seamless marmoleum floors blanket the private sector; and cork walls and ceilings surface in prime entertaining spaces to cancel the noise.

The salon and adjoining lounge palettes are inspired by Wilmington’s unblemished western skyline and the iconic Battleship North Carolina, the WWII warship permanently docked on the left bank of the Cape Fear River. Nose first in her berth, her call number, 55, painted into her Carolina flare -- the bright white splash across the gunmetal gray hull is softly backlit during the golden hour of sunset.