A bison head greets visitors in the living room, which is painted in RH’s Pumice with Obsidian for the trim, while Jonathan Adler makes an appearance through the sofa, coffee table and vase.
Finnigan is one of the homeowners’ four greyhounds.
In the dining room, table and chairs are from Crate & Barrel; the head chairs are from Jonathan Adler. Walls are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Wrought Iron. Piero Fornasetti plates are from Barneys.
Collin Robison and Trent DeBerry are born collectors.
In the foyer, a Wedgwood plate from Vermont Antique Mall hangs above a photograph by Gurudarshan Khalsa. The moss ball is from Mecox. A peek into the living room reveals a mirrored side table from West Elm alongside an antique balloon chair from Warren Street Antiques upholstered in Kravet fabric.
Many antiques are displayed as miniature vignettes, including a sculptural plaster-cast hand by artist Harry Allen pointing to a diary entry written by DeBerry’s grandfather during World War II.
A painting of Frida Kahlo by Bedonna Wakeman adorns a wall in Robison’s office, which is painted in Behr’s Sycamore Tree.
A rich recipe in the kitchen combines new and old elements, including Decorativa wall tile through Klaffs and a bakery cart from Hiden Galleries.
On the veranda, Crate & Barrel metal chairs are paired with rustic cedar twig chairs.
Antique French café chairs from Colonia Antiques pair with a new Knoll Saarinen table through Design Within Reach.
In the powder room, the couple reinvented a 19th-century French mortar from Red Chair as a sink and set it on an antique washstand from Hudson Mercantile.
The master bedroom walls are painted with Ralph Lauren’s Metallic Wadsworth Grey. The Crate & Barrel bed is dressed with lush shams and a coverlet from Dwell Studio. Pottery Barn sconces provide reading lights on either side of the bed.
“The last few years, I’ve been seeking out things that are more unique and, maybe just a little bit not in the best taste,” admits Robison. A giraffe skeleton appears to rear up in a corner of the master bedroom, but it doesn’t frighten away Tsotsi, one of the couple’s four resident cats, who lounges on a tufted antique brass bench at the foot of the bed.
This article appears in the November 2016 issue of CTC&G (Connecticut Cottages & Gardens).