The French Normandy–style house designed by Laura Kaehler fits naturally into the surrounding rocky landscape.
The breakfast room has immediate access to a long loggia. The circular Regency dining table is topped with a French chandelier that features a faience-like shade. Drapery fabric is from Old World Weavers.
An interior hallway leads to a collection of blue-and-white Chinese-export porcelain, assembled on a late-18th-century Chinese Chippendale shelf.
The living room is an exercise in symmetry. A pair of arched nooks reveal eight green Creil plates. The mantel displays a pair of reticulated Creil vases beneath French 19th-century gilt-bronze sconces.
In the formal dining room, notable elements include custom wallpaper from Gracie, a period Regency chandelier through Florian Papp, and Georgian mahogany plinths, circa 1780, each topped with 19th-century knife-box urns.
A cozy sitting nook in the family room includes floor-to-ceiling draperies from Old World Weavers that incorporate custom faux bamboo hardware.
The other end of the family room centers on a fireplace and shelves with Creil seaweed-patterned creamware.
This article appears in the September 2012 issue of CTC&G (Connecticut Cottages & Gardens).