While red and orange provide accents elsewhere in the house, they make a splash in the study, where the walls are painted carmine. Holding fort is a large boomerang-shaped desk – an antique. “This was one of my grandfather’s office desks,” the homeowner pointed out.
It is accompanied by two Lily armchairs from Fritz Hansen, whose original armless versions were designed by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen for the Danish National Bank in 1968. There is also a Snoopy lamp from Flos, designed by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in 1967 – in the punchy green version instead of the pale white one, of course.
Upstairs in the master bedroom, the homeowner has brought over her grandfather’s old standalone cupboards, but given them a coat of paint in a shade between teal and navy. Twin Utrecht armchairs designed by architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in 1988 for Cassina anchor a corner, upholstered in Prussian Blue fabric. A cow skin rug and a red Prive pouf from Cassina echo the living room’s palette.
