classic. The Lucite tables are vintage, and the Visual Comfort brass-and-leather- wrapped floor lamp, with a triangle shade, is an antique. The furnishings give that room and all the others a fresh feeling of having been collected over time. “I threw in several items throughout the home that were handed down from her grandmother, who had amazing taste and style,” Arnold adds. In the guest bedroom, geometric and almost floral Zak + Fox wallcoverings offset the owner’s grandmother’s dresser and a vibrant blue bedspread. There’s a quirky Pierre Paulin tongue chair in the den and a very grown-up Phillip Jeffries wallcovering to temper the small space. In the dining room, Arnold took a Broad Beach pendant wrapped in rope and placed it above a custom—if Lilliputian— dining table that seats just six. “She’s not a huge entertainer, but friends come and hang out, and she does work at the dining room table sometimes,” Arnold says. “The chandelier provides this honey glow that makes everyone look gorgeous.” For the primary bedroom, he had a Birmingham manufacturer create a custom four- poster iron bed, placed it atop an
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