When the interior designer Nick Spain and her husband, Michael Bolognino, were hunting in the house in the Berkshires, yearned for a historical home with character. The couple was courted by an old rectory of the 1850s in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which began to call “The Filomena”, after Mr. Bologninos Grandma.
Mr. Spain, which aims to create immersive environments for its customers, Mainly works on residential projects, from a house in the middle of the century in Oakland, California, to a friendly garden with pollinators in Montgomery, wing. I was delighted to have the opportunity to be on the other side of the table for one. “It was fun to be able to design something for me again in total,” said Mr. Spain, 37.
The couple bought the house in 2016, and touched two years to renew with the help of a general contractor. As much as Mr. Spain appreciated the charm of existing Italian architecture, they wanted to refresh the nineteenth -century farm with modern touches that develop new narratives; This was achieved through unexpected colored fighting, Playulufuls.
Althegh The property of 4,400 square feet is available to rent in Airbnb, the couple treats it as their main residence. (They also share an apartment with friends in Brooklyn Heights). Mr. Spain can be found curled up with his dogs in a romantic living room soaked in a soft and pink pink tone (Chippendale Rosetone by Benjamin Moore). “Someone once called him Millennial Pink, and I thought:” No, no, no, no, no, “Spain said.” It is very hot in the morning and then at night you really feel hero in that. “
Mr. Spain was tickled by the prospect Or build a narrative for the room that played with the idea of femininity. “We call it the room of ‘Ladies that have lunch’, and that is largely because he is the boy from where you go down, you have a cocktail and get all hot gossip,” he explained. “There is a saying:” If you have nothing pleasant to say, come to sit next to me. “We need that in a pillow.”
The female energy can be felt in each corner, from the portraits of women who rely on the chimney of the board to a rose of needles that belonged to the late grandmother of Mr. Spain. “We have the dream of continuing to fill it with interesting women who find that we are: a flea market, a garage sale, whatever,” he said.
Mr. Spain shared some of the fundamental pieces that make the glamorous room one of its favorite spaces.
Easy update
Homemade stars and moons, $ 65
Mr. Spain provided the room mainly used parts, such as a chair of the Danesa century replicated with floral print curtains. The Brown Chesterfield couch was obtained from a habitat for humanity that was restored outside Hudson, New York, for a few hungry dollars, and the postmodern sofas that repolished in a velvet of yield came from her husband’s house of her husband. “I or Pooh-Poh trying, if I’m being,” he said.
While recovering from the flu in the winter of 2024, Mr. Spain suddenly felt inspired to get cunning and make decorations for a New Year party. “I don’t always do it, but she does it sometimes,” he laughed. The designer cut by hand and painted with spray of about 200 stars, moons and comets outside the poster board, and hung them from the wooden roof with ribbons.
“In the light of the first quarter through which we were all happening, and the dead of winter in New England did so in this strange way that means something more hopeful,” he said. With that feeling in mind, Mr. Spain decided to leave the decorations after the party ended.
Waste
French Gres vase, € 300
Mr. Spain and Mr. Bolognino love to visit the Mediterranean coast, so every time they travel to France they always stop in Marseille and Antibes to the antibhes in the landscape by the sea. While wandering through the lovely old streets, Mr. Spain ran into Rajac Antibes, a ceramic study owned and operated by a group of women. “This vase really caught my attention because it was very feminine in its curve and its line and its shape, but then it is a very black basalt that could be endemic to the region,” he said. “That was definitely more a waste, both in the cost of the vase itself and in the manual work of loading it.”
He could have added five additional pounds to his suit, but Mr. Spain considers it one of his best investments for the room. “There are not always flowers,” he said, “but I love every time I have something that speaks of what I should live in that vase.”
One of a child
Botanical brass disconte of the 1980s, € 60 (plus $ 125 to recover)
You can always have a hand suit with a beautiful load of your trips abroad. Duration A surprise trip to Paris for her husband’s 40th birthday in 2019, Mr. Spain found a beautiful brass appthy in the Saint-Oee flea market without which he could not leave. “I never feel more absurd taking an object home in my bag because it definitely resembles a child or a weapon,” said Mr. Spain.
The relic recovered from a nightclub of the 1980s has been re -chable so that it can be admired On the wall in the Berkshires house. Just even if the designer does not prevents mixing styles from different eras, he could not resist the impulse to bow to the postmodern in the pink room.
