lifestyle she had embraced for the last decade, so, with her toddler son in tow, she embarked for London and made a 1930s town house in Chelsea their new home. Irish angel investor Maire Coulson was tired of the L.A. The powder room, wrapped in blue-striped Kubilai’s Tent from Iksel Decorative Arts and accented with Circa Lighting sconces, is just as commanding. A custom de Gournay wall covering in the dining room has a grand, dreamy feel that nods to Nancy Lancaster’s renowned Tobacco Bedroom and plays off the custom faux porphyry-top dining table surrounded by Russian neoclassical chairs upholstered in leopard-print velvet.
Wallpaper also makes frequent appearances. “It was about making a fantasy room that still works with the formality of the rest of the house,” Redd pointed out. The family room even features a bar underneath a red and white striped canopy. That understated exterior takes a bolder turn inside, where Miles Redd and David Kaihoi of New York firm Redd Kaihoi juxtaposed the living room’s coffered 20-foot ceiling with glossy yellow walls, custom tufted sofas, and a gallery-style array of blue and white jars. On the bucolic 29 acres tended to by New York– and Chicago-based Hollander Design Landscape Architects, a Cleveland family sought out New York architect Peter Pennoyer to build a country estate with a whitewashed brick façade that evokes the Arts and Crafts movement.