A 200-year-old maple tree and an oversize seagull sculpture from John Derian Company greet guests at Michael Bruno’s cedar-shingled carriage house rental in Southampton. Michael Taylor.
Audoux Minet rope chairs and a vintage Ralph Lauren Home velvet mohair sofa and matching club chairs surround a Belgian fossil stone–topped cocktail table in the living room. The cabinet is 17th-century and the spiral floor lamps are by Michael Taylor.
A 19th-century bubble perfume bottle and a faux-bamboo ice bucket sit atop a painted-wicker bar cart off the kitchen
Wicker chairs made for the 1964 World’s Fair surround an elm table from Homenature in the dining room; a work by Bruno’s friend Michele D’Ermo hangs on the wall.
A work by Bruno’s sister, Sally, hangs behind a circa-1970 Harvey Probber leather-upholstered sofa and an Eames elliptical table in the sitting room off the kitchen.
In the master bedroom, Franco Albini lamps and Ikea side tables flank a bed dressed in linens from Hildreth’s Home Goods.
Bruno often hangs out on the brick-lined outdoor lounge.
A table from Ellen Ward Scarborough Antiques and chairs from BackHome Antiques are set up outside the carriage house’s former delivery entrance.
Seating around the pool includes a vintage rattan cane chair and a custom teak chaise.
A teak sofa from Homenature, burl root chairs, and a Roger Capron cocktail table.
This article appears in the September 2015 issue of HC&G (Hamptons Cottages & Gardens).