The designer had never been inside her new clients’ Westchester home. Beyond its strange charm, what first struck him was its modest scale. “For the area, it was really gorgeous,” she says of the 1,940-square-foot property. “And when you’re walking in, the ceilings are a little lower.” Because the clients wanted to preserve the original 1923 layout, Fisher focused on making each room more detailed through the strategic use of color and pattern, and commissioned a carefully edited selection of visually powerful pieces.
However, she knocked down some walls to make way for the chef’s kitchen above, creating ample space with a long soapstone island, a professional 48-inch range with side-by-side ovens, and a dining area. Then Fisher, who once worked as a celebrity fashion stylist, took things up a notch with a custom copper hood and House of Hackney wallpaper featuring large blue flowers on a mustard background. “(The kitchen) is the epitome of what I envisioned for the home as a whole,” she says. “We pulled out all of these elements to create a really welcoming, warm room that feels like it’s been there for a while, but with colors that are really unique in the way they match each other.”
In the adjacent living room, shades of mauve, sage green, and dusty peach brighten a collection of antique and vintage furnishings (most were acquired by Fisher in Europe and the Hudson Valley; some were the clients’ own), including a distinctive tigerwood bar table with matching stools by mid-century Italian designer Osvaldo Borsani.
“One of the things we really wanted to do here was to honor the charm and character of the space,” says Fisher. “We were able to do this by finding pieces that felt like they had a soul and a history.” Among these finds are some contemporary pieces, such as a three-sided custom sofa upholstered in Jack + Fox’s geometric kilim-style fabric.
