Asked to design a vignette at Avery & Dash Collections using a mix of period furnishings and accessories (plus Curator paint from Ring’s End and Carlisle wood flooring), interior designers Dan Barsanti and Chris Desmone of Barsanti Desmone managed to create a layered, sophisticated living room with a hint of fantasy. “We wanted a sense of it being a stage set. The chalk lines make a point of ‘don’t forget, you’re looking at something that’s staged,’” explains Barsanti. “I bought a box of chalk and gave it to Chris asking: ‘White or black?’ Instead, he used a sort of peach tone, which ended up looking almost like gold leaf.” Notes Desmone, “It has the sensibility of old faded blueprints.”
Bench Warmers Fur throws top a circa 1780 Italian neoclassical bench across from a pair of Regency armchairs. Black and white Italian wood benches are from the 18th century with 19th-century decoration. A grouping of blue artwork flanks a late 19th-century Anglo-Indian mirror.
Artful Selection: A trio of abstract works on paper by Jacques Nestlé, circa 1950, pops on walls painted in Curator’s Chestnut Grain. A Jun Kaneko glazed earthenware plate tops a large-scale, tramp-art secretary. The Samarkand rug is circa 1925–50.
Old Meets New: A 19th-century Amish log cabin quilt anchors one vignette wall. The lamp is crafted from a Viennese Orientalist cold-painted Spelter figure, circa 1880–1900. A pair of 19th-century Chinese bronze and enamel studded vases flank a Josef Albers silk-screen print atop a John Dickinson–style plaster console.
