{"id":226880,"date":"2024-05-23T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=226880"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:27:38","slug":"new-york-transplants-update-a-connecticut-home","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/new-york-transplants-update-a-connecticut-home\/","title":{"rendered":"This Architectural Gem Enticed New York Transplants to Call Connecticut Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An Ilya Bolotowsky painting coordinates with Kateryna Sokolova\u2019s Gropius CS1 chairs, which pull up to a table with custom top under the glow of a Sean Lavin Wit suspension fixture in the kitchen\u2019s dining nook. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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May 23, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Stephen Treffinger<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Ken Hayden<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

This Architectural Gem Enticed New York Transplants to Call Connecticut Home<\/h1>\n\n\n

Leaving Manhattan was the right choice for a couple and their two children during COVID. The family members rented a house in suburban Connecticut, thinking it\u2019d be temporary, but liked the area and decided to look for something permanent. In the town of Ridgefield, they found an exceptional English-style manor built in 1911 by the lauded Yale-trained architect and urban planner Grosvenor Atterbury. The 8,500-square-foot, three-bedroom house also featured 3\u00bd acres of gardens by Warren Manning, who landscaped the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Times being what they were, the house-hunters got the place for a relative song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The client couple had worked with Miami-based Sanchez+Coleman Studio<\/a> before, so returned to copartners Chris Coleman and Angel Sanchez to upgrade the Connecticut residence and make it more family-friendly. Many of the changes were cosmetic: paint, furniture, art placement. The kitchen, however, a room Coleman calls \u201cground zero of the house,\u201d was treated to a more comprehensive overhaul. Sanchez+Coleman took down the upper cabinets and installed white subway\u2013tiled backsplash and quartz countertops. \u201cRemoving them modernized and opened up the room,\u201d Coleman notes, explaining that an existing full-height cabinet, which stands near the breakfast nook, offers ample storage to make up for the jettisoned overheads. The firm also stripped down the original island, a sad mahogany monolith with turned pilasters, to a more rectangular shape and painted it a vibrant French blue. Several fireplaces also got a major do-over, the originals being large stone affairs\u2014\u201cvery Flintstones,\u201d Coleman jokes\u2014receiving blackened-steel cladding or inserts or, for the one in the kitchen, an all-new tile hearth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Georg Karl Pfahler painting hangs above the re-styled fireplace in the dining room, where Verner Panton\u2019s Series 430 chairs join a Warren Platner armchair.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As for d\u00e9cor, the palette switches from blue-accented to anchored in black, white, and greens, woven through with grays. The owners already had a large collection of modern and Latin American art; some pieces were brought in from storage, others from their homes in Manhattan and Long Island. \u201cThe polka-dot painting was a starting point for the scheme,\u201d Coleman recalls. That canvas, by Thomas Downing, hangs on the largest wall in the house, above the den\u2019s sprawling olive-velvet Rodolfo Dordoni sectional. It was also Coleman and Sanchez\u2019s idea to place a Will Insley black-and-white grid artwork somewhat irreverently behind the main bedroom\u2019s headboard, where it leans on the floor and extends almost all the way to the ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although some rooms\u2014the den, for instance\u2014are darker, moodier, and read as more \u201cadult,\u201d the abundant curves and soft surfaces suit young children, too. Likewise, the custom sage-hued carpet that pads the den and the living room is an indoor\/outdoor <\/a>construction\u2014easy to keep clean. The abundance of metal finishes throughout, of which Coleman is very fond, is less fragile than lacquer or wood, and also timeless, he concludes: \u201cIt survives all trends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walk Through the Connecticut Home Designed by Sanchez+Coleman Studio\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Luur\u2019s steel U Bench coffee table anchors one end of the den, where a Thomas Downing painting joins a velvet-covered Rodolfo Dordoni Goodman sectional. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An Ilya Bolotowsky painting coordinates with Kateryna Sokolova\u2019s Gropius CS1 chairs, which pull up to a table with custom top under the glow of a Sean Lavin Wit suspension fixture in the kitchen\u2019s dining nook. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Canvases by Tamara Melcher and Rakuko Naito pop against the kitchen\u2019s subway-tiled walls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dordoni\u2019s Andersen Quilt sofa joins Yabu Pushelberg\u2019s Rua Ipanema chairs in the living room, with a canvas by Julije Knifer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back in the den, near Kelly Wearstler\u2019s Rousseau sconce, Tilly ottomans flank a Jean Prouv\u00e9 Gu\u00e9ridon table.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bold moments in the main bedroom include a Will Insley painting, a pair of Andrew Lubas canvases, Mario Botta\u2019s Shogun table lamp, and vintage Gio Ponti bookshelves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A Tom Dixon Cassia 09 wingback services a backened-metal desk in the home office, where two Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs hang beside a Shogun floor lamp. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Doug Glovaski\u2019s Neighborhood wallcovering caps the stairwell, further energized by a Konstantin Grcic Noctambule glass pendant fixture and a painting by Will Boone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
product sources from front<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n

BONTEMPI CASA THROUGH 360 ROOM:<\/strong> TABLE (DINING ROOM). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MILIA SHOP:<\/strong> CHAIRS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FRANCE & SON:<\/strong> ARMCHAIR (DINING ROOM), ROUND SIDE TABLE (LIVING ROOM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THROUGH 1ST DIBS:<\/strong> PENDANT FIXTURE (DINING ROOM), FLOOR LAMPS (DEN, OFFICE), TABLE LAMP (BEDROOM). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOBILIS:<\/strong> WINDOW-SEAT FABRIC, PILLOW FABRIC (DEN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VITRA:<\/strong> ROUND TABLE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LUUR:<\/strong> COFFEE TABLE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

KELLY WEARSTLER THROUGH LUMENS:<\/strong> SCONCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEST ELM:<\/strong> OTTOMANS, PLANTER (DEN), NIGHTSTAND (BEDROOM). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MINOTTI:<\/strong> SECTIONAL (DEN), SOFA, WOOD-BASE COCKTAIL TABLE (LIVING ROOM). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOLLY HUNT:<\/strong> BACK PILLOW FABRIC (DEN). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOOM:<\/strong> CHAIRS (KITCHEN). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LUMENS:<\/strong> PENDANT FIXTURE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JARRETT FURNITURE:<\/strong> TABLE BASE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHELLA TEXTILES:<\/strong> BANQUETTE FABRIC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHADES OF LIGHT:<\/strong> PENDANT FIXTURES. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BALLARD DESIGNS:<\/strong> STOOLS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTE:<\/strong> WALLCOVERING (LIVING ROOM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CASA QUIETA:<\/strong> MARBLE COCKTAIL TABLE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

KRAVET:<\/strong> CUSTOM RUG. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DESIGNERS GUILD:<\/strong> PILLOW FABRIC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

KATHY KUO HOME:<\/strong> CONSOLE, WOOD SIDE TABLE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZINC THROUGH ROMO:<\/strong> HEADBOARD FABRIC (BEDROOM). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAYNES GRAY:<\/strong> DESK (OFFICE). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TOM DIXON:<\/strong> CHAIR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MILTON & KING:<\/strong> WALLCOVERING. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VAUGHAN:<\/strong> CEILING FIXTURE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AREA THROUGH HOLLY HUNT:<\/strong> CEILING WALLCOVERING (STAIR). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FLOS:<\/strong> PENDANT FIXTURE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n