Over time, the hosts Susanna Salk and I characteristic in our video sequence have impressed us simply as you’ve got stated they do you. And in this particular episode, Susanna invitations us into her personal Connecticut nation residence to indicate how she has interpreted a lot of their distinctive types to encourage you to maybe do the identical.
As our video sequence has grown and we have now collected a secure of over 100 episodes that includes high designers and tastemakers all over the world, it occurred to us {that a} printed assortment may be in order. So, I’m delighted to share {that a} e-book, to be printed subsequent yr, is in the works, as Susanna describes, “type of a reverse course of the video sequence: taking a few of our favourite visits over time and distilling them again into nonetheless photos and giving them their very own chapter and including my recollections.” Just a few clever phrases from Susanna’s introduction serves as the proper segue to this video as properly.
“I’m all the time preaching to others the thought of plagiarizing relating to design as a result of it’s by no means a direct translation: should you love the salmon shade that Timothy Corrigan painted the eating room in his chateau in France, strive it in the visitor toilet of your Chicago house. If Bunny William’s customized terrazzo tile flooring in her Manhattan kitchen dazzles you however is past your finances, contemplate stenciling your personal design to carry yours to life. Obsessed by how Alexa Hampton creates visible landscapes through her collections of classical treasures however you’re not a seasoned collector? In truth, you don’t accumulate something but? Purchase three of one thing you’re keen on. There: you’ve began gathering simply the best way she did.
However what I didn’t count on was the infectious energy of the designers’ properties upon my very own infant. No how far we traveled and the way lengthy it took to get residence, I’d cross my very own threshold all the time elated. My inspiration cup was full and I someway needed to pour it someplace into my very own rooms.
I got here again after capturing in a number of the grandest English nation homes and acquired a porcelian vase for flowers at a neighborhood consignment store for twenty-five bucks. I’d have walked proper by it earlier than. I cherished how Johnson Hartig cheekily pinned his personal luxurious Schumacher wallpaper trompe l’oeil sample of blue and white platters behind his range that I instantly ordered a yard after which minimize and organized it myself quickly as I bought residence, full with thumbtacks.
That visible gratification all the time makes the leap for me: if I’ve an emotional response seeing different folks stay with one thing I like, then why not deal with myself to seeing one thing comparable on daily basis?” Whereas these are all photographs from Susanna’s beautiful Connecticut nation residence, you’ll have to observe the video to see the place the inspiration from every arose. So, glad viewing, be fearless and be at liberty to plagiarize.
all pictures by Stacey Bewkes for Quintessence