Seussian proportions portrayed by a pink floor lamp from Brooklyn-based Opiary. More Neptunian novelty can be found in the sea green family room, where, Rose says, “I wanted to introduce a ‘creature.’” In this case, an anemone of Dr. With the flourish of a giant straw hat, a pendant lamp of woven willow vine from Ukrainian gallery Faina adds breeziness to the primary bedroom, while Rose’s custom bed features a theatrical headboard reminiscent of a pudgy clamshell. She credits her knack for scale and spectacle to frequent childhood visits to The Met and the American Museum of Natural History.įor example, a tiny Tim Nikiforuk canvas, hanging on a hazy purple expanse in the media room, makes a big impact with its tempting texture-thick swirls of teal paint that suggest an exuberant extrusion of ribbon candy or striped toothpaste. Furniture qualifies as objets d’art and exaggeratedly occupies spaces, apropos a home that’s designed “to envelop you in wonder and curiosity,” Rose says. In Sag Harbor, Rose’s fearless way with form spins geometry on its rigid head. Mara commissioned Rose after becoming spellbound by the New York designer’s marble geometric tiles-a collaboration with Artistic Tile-at the 2019 Kips Bay Decorator Show House, where they emblazoned a boudoir. “Every room needed to be approachable, usable, and fun, fun, fun,” says Mara, who shares the retreat with her husband, Brian, who works in real estate, and their two young children. Rose’s client, Mara, a gut-health specialist and Ayurvedic nutritionist, grew up in Miami, and wanted her family’s second home to reflect “the brightness and vibe” of her native stomping grounds. Notably, the color palette vacillates comfortably between high-desert hues and pop art punch.

Amid a lush beachfront landscape of oak leaf hydrangea, boxwood, and hornbeam, this modern-style new build is probably the only home on Long Island’s East End where a braided-rope “tail” is a freakish appendage to a “mustachioed” rug, or where light fixtures recall the blobby sway of deep-ocean creatures. However, her otherworldly metaphor might as well represent the whole project. When Alison Rose says, “The spaceship has landed,” she’s talking about a custom sofa that’s stationed akimbo in the living room of a Sag Harbor home she recently designed for a young family.

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