Classic Cool Tis contemporary condo brings the best of European design to St. Louis Written by Barbara Hertenstein Jacobitti Photography by Alise O’Brien
As warm sun pours in through sheer curtains eight foors above the city, Todd Lannom’s home feels a bit like a ship sailing calmly in an ocean of gold. Spare, contemporary style adds to the serenity. Lannom and his partner, Brian Clore, arrived to choose their apartment on the frst day Conrad Properties made the condos at 4545 Lindell available. “Tey just had a trailer set up in the lot for presales,” Lannom says, and thinking ahead, the company had hired a crane to take a photographer up to several foor levels to show clients what the view would be. And quite a view it is, from the Gateway Arch to the east, sweeping through mid-city to the south, with a glimpse of the art museum on the horizon and views of Clayton’s towers to the west. “We see some great lightening and thunderstorms from up here,” he says. Tey were hoping to get the 9th foor, but arrived just minutes too late, so tagged their 8th foor condo and crossed their fngers that their balcony would extend enough to clear the buildings along side. It does. Tat settled, the real work began. Waiting for the building to go up, and knowing they would be given the keys to an empty box, they had hundreds of decisions to make. Every surface: foors, walls, doors and more, had to be chosen. Every piece of furniture and lighting was planned for the 2200 square-foot space. Because Lannom is co-owner of the upscale contemporary furniture store, Centro, when it came to choosing furniture, he was, as the English say, spoiled for choice.
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