Blessed, a 12-year-old pug, sits outside Cricket Burns’s shingle-clad home in Water Mill, which features Tulip Red from Fine Paints of Europe on the door. The zinnia wreath is by Lilee Fell.
The entry is decorated wth objets trouvés including a vintage Studio 54 disco ball and a red parrot sculpture from Reykjavik, Iceland.
A vintage Opal cigar poster sets the tone in the living room, which features a Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Jean Luc sofa and matching armchair. The vintage plaid area rug is a score from London’s Portobello Road market.
The Bob Dylan bar cabinet is from London’s Portobello Road market.
Vintage Lucite chairs, a Ron Gilad chandelier, and Benjamin Moore’s Coral Gables add personality to the dining room, which features a portrait of Burns’s daughters by Lola Schnabel.
The family room hearth is decorated with coral, busts, and framed photographs and notes.
In the entry, 1950s Chinoiserie lamps sit atop an antique Chinese altar; the wall covering is Brunschwig & Fils’ Bengali in Natural.
Red-and-white-striped walls in the laundry room get an extra kick from a vintage Slim Aarons photograph and a pair of Kaws figurines.
In the adjacent kitchen, a pendant from Golden Lighting hangs above a wrought-iron table from Oly and Calligaris’s Alchemia chairs. Burns painted the Aphrodite bust deep red.
In the master bedroom, Robert Longo’s lithographs Ellen and Eric flank the bed, which is topped with a silver-fox throw from Prada.
On an adjacent wall, a 1950s Op art piece hangs above a silkscreened chair by JoAnn Berman and a painted driftwood orb from Nantucket.
In daughter Manzi’s room, Burns sits in a dome chair covered in Tibetan quilt fragments.
Daughter India’s room features a silkscreened chair by JoAnn Berman and an Andy Warhol poppies lithograph, which hangs above a campaign desk and a Brillo cube homage to Warhol by Bradford Shellhammer.
A fashion portrait and a light sculpture, both dating from the 1940s, add contrast in a guest room. The orchid arrangement is by Ovando Design and Production.
This article appears in the November 2016 issue of NYC&G (New York Cottages & Gardens).