Red velvet sofa under a pair of framed Asian bird paintings, an indigo lattice armchair in front, orchids and a Chinese vase lamp alongside

Greenwich, Connecticut

Sophisticated Asian Country

Red velvet and indigo, under painted pheasants.

Location: Greenwich, CT
House: Country house
Rooms shown: Living, den, kitchen
Completed: To confirm

An English country house that has been collecting from the East for a century.

The rooms are built on three colours held at full strength: red velvet, indigo, and the madder ground of the carpets. Everything else is brown furniture and candlelight. Framed bird paintings in black and gold hang above the sofa, a Chinese vase is wired as a lamp, embroidered and paisley cushions pile up without matching, and a pair of barley twist candlesticks stands on a tray table.

Nothing here is precious. The blue slipcovered sofa takes a tartan throw and a bowl of cricket balls; a leather club chair sits beside a brass bouillotte lamp, a glass of claret and a strapped case; the kitchen keeps an old scrubbed table, Windsor chairs and a bench cushioned in a small blue print, with the garden filling the window behind.

Red velvet sofa under a pair of framed Asian bird paintings in black and gold, an indigo lattice armchair in front, a Chinese vase lamp on a small table and orchids beside a chest of drawers — The sofa corner. Red, indigo and the carpet are the whole palette; the cushions are allowed to disagree.

Blue slipcovered sofa with a tartan throw, lattice cushions and a bowl of cricket balls on a scrubbed table in front, hurricane candles lit, a pair of Chinese vase lamps and Windsor chairs beyond — Looking across the sofa back to the dining end. The table behind the sofa does the work of a console: candles, a bowl, a telescope.

Brown leather club chair with a yellow needlework pheasant cushion, a brass bouillotte lamp with a black shade, a glass of red wine and a strapped leather case at the chair side — The reading chair, kept deliberately worn. Brass, leather and one yellow cushion.

Scrubbed farm table with brass candlesticks and a painted bowl, Windsor chairs and a window bench cushioned in a small blue print, French doors to the garden behind — The kitchen table at the garden window, with the bench cushion in a small blue print and bird embroidered pillows against the chair backs.

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