When Janice Parker first stepped into her new residence in Greenwich, Connecticut, she was overwhelmed. The panorama architect is an skilled with regards to refining out of doors areas, however has no expertise tackling interiors—not to mention a 6,000-square-foot spec home with 5 bedrooms and 6 loos spanning three flooring. “It was too huge and too vibrant. There have been so many home windows,” she explains. “I simply didn’t know learn how to really feel at residence in it.”

Parker reached out to her longtime pal Jamie Drake, co-founder (together with Caleb Anderson) of the Manhattan-based agency Drake/Anderson. He was the one particular person she trusted to rework the cookie-cutter home into a spot she and her husband, Jim, might really name their very own. “I wanted somebody who had an excellent sense of my interior life,” says Parker. Channeling her lifelong love of crops and flowers, Drake and his workforce selected a contemporary palette of natural and vivid hues in order that the fashionable Shingle Model home would really feel like a lush backyard. “There are a good quantity of inexperienced shades, and purples such as you would possibly discover in an iris or agapanthus,” notes Drake.

On high of that, the designer blended up to date and classic furnishings, counting on items by acclaimed mid-century innovators comparable to Warren Platner, Ward Bennett, and Mario Bellini. A couple of of his selections had the purchasers skeptical at first: a country stone desk with “actually tough legs,” Parker recollects, and a flea market lamp with an Previous Hollywood vibe. However finally, says Drake, the couple trusted his instincts: “They mentioned, ‘Go forward—we’re going to take the leap of religion that you’ve got the imaginative and prescient.’ ”

Thoughtfully chosen artwork—together with a sequence of 25 black-and-white botanical prints by German photographer Karl Blossfeldt—additional the floral theme, which spills into Parker’s favourite area: the library. “They each love books,” Drake says of the owners, who requested him to show the formal front room into a spot the place they might showcase their intensive assortment of latest and vintage gardening tomes. Customized green-and-gray shelving with gleaming brass image lights illuminates all of the titles, whereas an eight-foot-long desk is planted squarely in entrance of the cabinets at Parker’s request: “I wished an enormous, lengthy desk the place I might work and simply sit and have a look at all my favourite books.”

Residing Room

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“It was impressed by the notion of a backyard, of a panorama,” Drake says.

Wallcovering: Phillip Jeffries. Couch: Richard Mishaan for Theodore Alexander. Chairs: Theodore Alexander in Holly Hunt material. Rug: Stark. Espresso desk: Theodore Alexander

Household Room

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A pair of espresso tables with legs painted to resemble buffalo horns anchors the extra-large seating space.

Couch: Baker Furnishings. Pillow materials: Zoffany and Harlequin (striped). Armchairs, espresso tables, and ottoman: Theodore Alexander. Artwork: Ann Aspinwall. Rug: Edward Fields.

Library

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The suave area, which doubles as an workplace, boasts a customized two-tone lacquered bookcase by Ivy Sq. Woodworking. Desk: Theodore Alexander. Chair: classic Ward Bennett, 1stDibs. Rug: Stark.

Hallway

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The wall proper exterior the library showcases 25 black-and-white botanical prints by German photographer Karl Blossfeldt.

Kitchen

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The design workforce chosen Mario Bellini’s trademark Cab stools from the Seventies for the present white kitchen.

Paint: Sensible White, Benjamin Moore. Faucet: Kohler.

Eating Room

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Drake designed each the buffet and eating desk, with its cool twisted base, completely for Theodore Alexander.

Chandelier: Circa Lighting. Artwork: Barbara Takenaga, Shark’s Ink. Chairs: Theodore Alexander in Nice Plains material.

Main Bed room

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“They wished a spot within the room the place they might have espresso and a lightweight breakfast,” says Drake—so he coupled a Hickory Chair desk with reupholstered chairs that when belonged to Parker’s aunt.

Mattress: Michael Berman for Theodore Alexander. Curtain material: Kravet. Artwork: Alexandra Penney (hearth); Ernesto García Sánchez, Mindy Solomon (mattress).

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The classic Oushak rug impressed the room’s flavorful shade palette of “apricot, peach, and cinnamon,” says Drake, whereas a Stark carpet beneath makes the Oushak appear bigger. Wallpaper: Holly Hunt. Artwork: William Tillyer. Bench: Theodore Alexander. Desk: Worlds Away.

Patio

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“I wished each plant to seem like it was making an attempt to leap out and take over the entire neighborhood,” Parker says with fun.

Desk: West Elm. Armchairs: classic Russell Woodard (left); RH (proper).

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