As far as social design trends go, floors have become an obvious staple—just search under the hashtag #viewfromthetop or, simply, #floors. Ceilings, however, don't get as much shine, but one person who's offering up the oft-forgotten for new consideration is Tommy Hilfiger. The fashion designer's Greenwich, Connecticut, home is the definition of ceiling goals, as you can see from photos in Architectural Digest's March 2017 cover story.
When revamping their country home with help from interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Hilfiger and his wife, Dee, left no detail untouched, giving as much attention to the ceilings as to the custom shelving and woodwork. The intricate ceilings take inspiration from the 1939 estate, originally built by architect Greville Rickard, which combines classic European elements and traditional American touches. In the couple's wood-paneled Winter Room, for example, there's a plaster ceiling bearing a pattern of two 16th-century French insignias.
“I call it that great American style from the 1920s and ’30s when Americans would tour Europe and bring back an interesting concoction of ideas from, say, Tuscany and France,” Bullard explained to AD of the home's eclectic style. “The exterior is a Norman-inspired château with Tudor elevations, but the interior is an English country house with French Gothic touches.”
That theme is continued in the living room, where you'll find a labyrinthe plasterwork ceiling created by Hyde Park Mouldings.
In the bedroom of the Hilfigers' seven-year-old son, Sebastian, the ceiling was dressed up with a more modern look: a starry wallpaper designed by Ralph Lauren Home.
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