Home library + office
Greenwich Study
- Location
- Greenwich, CT
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Home library + office
Project Note
Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves painted a deep sage, an antique writing desk pulled to the window, and a Persian rug the owner inherited and finally had a room to put down. Built for long mornings and long sentences.
The Story
The client is a novelist. The brief was a room she would never want to leave, with enough wall to hold thirty years of books and enough light to read into the afternoon without a lamp.
We built the shelves in two long elevations, painted them a deep sage we mixed on site, and added a tucked-in cupboard for the printer and the cords. The desk faces the window; everything else faces the desk.
Materials
The short list
of things we used.
Every choice was made in the actual light of the house, with the owners present, on a single afternoon.
- Deep sage paintCustom mixed on site
- Mahogany deskAntique, c. 1880
- Persian rugInherited, restored
- Brass library lightPendant, unlacquered
Credits
- Cabinetry
- Aldis & Co.
- Restoration
- Lowe Rug Works
- Photography
- Margaret Tate
- Duration
- 5 months
