“THE PAST IS ALWAYS PRESENT IN A HISTORIC HOME – THE TRICK IS FIGURING OUT HOW MUCH TO CELEBRATE WHAT CAME BEFORE”
he interior designer Nina Farmer didn’t grow up in an old house. Her design language of richly layered interiors punctuated with antiques evolved as she moved through periods in her life. ‘My parents built our first home from scratch. It was in the countryside in Connecticut and there was nothing remotely historic about it,’ she recalls. ‘But