BEAUTY: Interiors--Cecelia Casagrande

Interior designer Cecelia Casagrande is clearly a maximalist, a designer after my own heart. I love her choices for this Colonial Revival home built in 1895 by developer Moses Crane in Newton, Massachusetts. The dark colors on the ground floor are marvelous, moody, and certainly reminiscent of a Victorian sensibility. Animal motifs abound with art works by Hunt Slonem, the Leopard Walk wallcovering by Cole & Son in the dining room, and the truly delightful Ms. Ward wallpaper by Grow House Grow in a powder room which features a small repeating print of scientist Mary Ward walking an enormous praying mantis. Casagrande's color palette and fearless pattern mixing add to the rich, layered sense of this house--the styling throughout is fantastic. And surprising is her use of the palest pink in the primary suite, which really does look incredible with the Carrera marble in the bathroom.

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