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  • MILIEU

    Treasured RETREAT

    Nov 18, 2017 3 minutes
    INTERIOR DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE BY Gil Schafer III
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY
    Eric Piasecki
    WRITTEN BY
    James McCown

    THE HOUSE IN THE HILLS of northwestern Connecticut is a picture of New England rectitude—white clapboard siding, slate roof, stone chimneys, dormers, and fanlights. It’s all genteel and proper.

    But the interiors of the spacious home present a much different story. The rooms are a cornucopia of vibrant colors and Asian art and European decorative pieces. The weekend home of a Manhattan-based rare books and prints dealer and his wife, who specializes in arranging exotic trips to Asia, it came together

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