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For the following reasons, the person who best should stay at the Baker's Quarters is the person who seeks the unusual, the dramatic and the flare in life. The Baker's Quarters is the third of three apartments in a small 3,600 sq. ft. two story building built in 1924 specifically to house a bakery. The other two apartments (The Oven & the Loft) were on the 2006 Spring Fells Point Historic House Tour. Each has its own separate street entrance. The store front (the 4th unit) is used by a local artist for his studio. Each of the three apartments have approximately 850 sq. ft.
The walls of the foyer to the Baker's Quarters are done in a modernistic black and white faux stone along with a hanging wall replica of an ancient Roman Horse Head (Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York). At the top of stairs, the interior takes on a Roman street scene with a mural of a Tuscany rural view as the center point. The bathroom at the top of the stairs is tiled with black granite on the shower walls and bath room floor. Glass blocks emits natural light from the adjoining kitchen window. The hallway going to the back leads to the two bedroom having 21 feet of combined wardrobe customized cabinets. The queen beds in each bedroom are of the highest quality (one firm and the other plush.)
Continuing towards the front, the guest approaches the great room (15' X 21' X 10') under a faux stone arch and puddled draperies. The far wall consists of the wall mounted HDTV (covered by a set of painted 4 panels) over a fireplace. The walls flanking the TV/fireplace contain (on the left) a twelve sectional map of a replica of a 500 year old map of ROME (National Gallery of Art, Wash. DC) and (on the right)a large wall hanging of De Vinci's drawing of man viewed from a front as well as from the side which is flanked by modern book cases mounted on the wall and spaced above matching book cases on the floor. Statuaries complete the design. Hurricane distressed curtains for the three windows are framed by shagged draperies.
The best surprise is left to the kitchen which one person has called "an upside down" kitchen and another the kitchen with a "city skyline." The owner/designer calls it a "vertical kitchen." (trademark pending). In any event, it challenges the traditional look of a kitchen while inviting a person to improve the function of a kitchen. It is fitting that the first "vertical kitchen" in America should be in Fells Point, Baltimore which has a history of harboring the artist, the eccentric and the raconteur as well as the seaman. |
