Since founding their eponymous gallery in 2005, Demisch and her Paris-based partner Stéphane Danant have introduced American audiences to French titans like Paulin, Joseph-André Motte, Michel Boyer and Maria Pergay, whom Demisch originally tracked down in Morocco through the Yellow Pages. The duo has built a cult following by sourcing rare works and curating scholarly exhibitions—always sophisticated, never ostentatious. They have also brought the same nuanced approach to the private homes of people like art patron Dasha Zhukova Niarchos.
“Everything seems to be one,” says Demisch, explaining her multi-layered work. “When we imagine shows, we imagine environments that act as clients.” In the case of the Brooklyn project, she continues, “we put a real client at the center of the curation.”
Upjohn’s neo-Gothic architecture, with its scroll moldings, ornate railings and 13-foot ceilings, served as a canvas. Demisch Danant, working with Cheung Showman Architects, oversaw a historically sensitive renovation, taking inspiration from 17th-century Flemish country homes. It featured a spartan Bulthaup kitchen, ash plank floors and rich stone (terra-cotta Rosso Alicante marble in the powder room, light gray travertine in the master bath). “We wanted to let the architecture do the heavy lifting and add minimalist furniture that wouldn’t distract the eye,” says the client.
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