Designer Breaks All the Rules in Her Vibrant Carroll Gardens Brownstone
Combining high design and kitsch, bold patterns and vibrant colors, interior designer Fawn Galli created a remarkable home in Carroll Gardens — one that goes against the grain and achieves a glorious effect. “I will do anything. Nothing is off-limits for my spaces,” she told One Kings Lane in a recent story on her home….
Combining high design and kitsch, bold patterns and vibrant colors, interior designer Fawn Galli created a remarkable home in Carroll Gardens — one that goes against the grain and achieves a glorious effect.
“I will do anything. Nothing is off-limits for my spaces,” she told One Kings Lane in a recent story on her home. (It was also profiled in the Post last year, as Brownstoner readers may recall.)
Galli’s bold aesthetic is informed by a unique professional trajectory. The designer developed an eye for flea market finds while living in Paris, did a stint in the Art Deco department of Christie’s, and designed several homes for postmodern architect Robert A. M. Stern, among other projects. After working with designer Peter Marino and living in Madrid, Galli came back to New York.
Eleven years ago, she and her husband — and architect — ditched the West Village for a 2,500-square-foot Carroll Gardens brownstone.
Galli turned the home into a visual wonderland of color and pattern. Chartreuse and hot-pink are two of the home’s primary accent colors. Animal-shaped objects are also found throughout the home — a gold metallic bunny shares the living room with a black lacquered deer sculpture Galli found at a flower market.
Animal figurines also populate the floor-to-ceiling walnut shelves in the dining room.
Wallpaper is also used in the home to stunning effect. Metallic paper from Florence Broadhurst fills the wall molding and reflects light in the living room. A bold blue damask print from Brunschwig & Fils in the powder room makes the small space pop.
Rather than strip and restore the dinged-up bannister, Galli painted it bright pink.
[Source: One Kings Lane]
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How nice of her to decorate a powder room just for blind people.
Some of the choices I’m questioning but since they are designerly I guess that enters into the ‘personal taste’ category. I can understand why someone might like them and I can understand why someone might dislike them. This is a house that Wes Anderson would use in a shoot, but Wes Anderson is a little offbeat.
That said I’m pretty disappointed at some of the treatments, like the baseboards and stair rail. They really should have scraped it down so the surface was at least flat. In the current state it looks like it’s melting, I can see the paint drips from decades ago.
I like the bookshelves by the fireplace, it’s a nice choice (personally I would put a few more momentos and curiosities and about 25% fewer books). But try to do something interesting like arrange them by color, or size or create a visual pattern out of the books on the wall, currently they look like they’re there to fill the space.
FUGLY
How do people feel about the shelves being around the dining room mantel instead of the living room mantel? Books in the dining room? I’m struggling with this myself.
LOL you must be joking. if part of someone’s effort to “make their own” was to tear out all the original detail and whitewash the place floor to ceiling you would hardly be praising their fearless defiance of conventional wisdom.
just saying. respectfully.
is there a more appropriate place for that blue wallpaper and pink bannister?
what if the shelves were made of antique rolling pins?