Is an enduring design relationship like a good marriage? We think so. Take the case of New York designer Fawn Galli‘s collaboration with a peripatetic family who have ping-ponged between Paris and New York. Galli has worked on all their residences; her most recent project is the couple’s weekend house in West Cornwall, Connecticut. Galli handled the interiors, while architect Douglas Wright (a friend of the husband’s from college and a former colleague of Galli’s at Robert A. M. Stern’s office), oversaw the renovation.
The first order of business was to rethink the internal flow. “From what had become a rabbit warren of rooms, we created a plan for a modern family,” Wright says. “We recast the details of the original house in a completely new layout; original baseboards, doors, trims, and flooring.”
Galli took on the interior design. “The attitude of the house is Old World but modern, with a streak of bohemian,” she says. “It’s very much a weekend country house; the couple has three boys, 11, 14, 17, and they throw lots of dinner parties, play games, and read by the fire.”
Photography courtesy of Fawn Galli.
![wright added a modern black barn, which houses a rec room on the lower level an 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-56.jpg)
![\2\20;in the living room, we painted the stark sisal carpet with benjami 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-8.jpg)
![the wife, an editor at the paris review, collects books and antique 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-4.jpg)
![the cabinets are painted babouche from farrow & bal. the dining t 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-18.jpg)
![\2\20;the tin tiled ceiling reflects a lot of light,\2\2\1; galli 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-22.jpg)
![a butler\2\17;s pantry is lined in wallpaper from timorous beasties. 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-13.jpg)
![the acid yellow velvet dining room curtains are lined with an ikat print (in th 23](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-25.jpg)
![\2\20;we wanted an interesting color scheme in the reading room,\ 24](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-10jpg.jpg)
![the martin sconces are from schoolhouse electric. 25](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-11.jpg)
![the hallway is papered in lady green wallpaper (\2\20;a baroque style pr 26](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-44.jpg)
![in the hallway, the architects removed, restored, and reinstalled the original 27](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-40.jpg)
![the guest bedrooms are almost entirely furnished in flea market and vintage fin 28](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-29.jpg)
![in a guest room, the curtains are made from vintage toile that the owner collec 29](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-49.jpg)
![\2\20;we painted the floors and pelted them with rocks to make them look 30](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-46.jpg)
![a bathroom with a vintage marble sink. 31](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-26.jpg)
![the clean lined master bedroom is on the second floor of the barn addition. 32](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-37.jpg)
![the vintage industrial sink in the master bath is from wyeth in new y 33](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fawn-galli-cornwall-connecticut-38.jpg)
N.B.: This post is an update; the original story ran on May 20, 2016.
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