fef777 A New York Home Designed for a Real-Life Couple and Their Imaginary Muse

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NOT LONG AFTER buying their home in the early months of the pandemic, a young couple from New York City brought in a shaman. Lights were turning on and off without explanation, doors were spontaneously opening and closing. Like so many old buildings in upstate New York, this one — an 18th-century farmhouse with a white clapboard facade and gabled roof — was peaceful by day but creaky at night, when its oversize windows seemed suddenly too large, and its location, just outside the village of Tivoli, too remote. So when they asked the designer Adam Charlap Hyman to fill its interiors, they wanted not just furnishings but “to bring life and joy into the house,” he says, “with an edge of that Hudson Valley spookiness.”

ImageIn the guest room, Laurel Trellis wallpaper by Adelphi, a WB Form Cloud Lamp, a vintage Ikea chrome bed, mismatched Adirondack twig side tables and a Chiarastella Cattana cashmere blanket.Credit...Blaine DavisImageIn the dining room, a mural by Lukas Geronimas, chairs from Shaker Workshops, a 19th-century Utagawa Kuniyoshi print, a schoolgirl needlework and watercolor on silk and a glass by Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi on a wall-mounted shelf by Jonathan Nesci.Credit...Blaine Davis

Charlap Hyman, 35, has always enjoyed things that are both exquisite and slightly off. Through his New York-and-Los Angeles-based firm, Charlap Hyman & Herrero — which he co-founded in 2014 with his former Rhode Island School of Design classmate Andre Herrero — he has become known for creating eclectic, layered homes that draw on his deep knowledge of art and design, and for releasing idiosyncratic products like ear-shaped pillows sewn from pieces of vintage kimonos and a pigeon-motif wallpaper based on one that hung in the writer Gertrude Stein’s Paris apartment. The child of two artists, Charlap Hyman sometimes makes dollhouse-like maquettes of his projects and invents fictional back stories for the spaces he creates. When he designed the interiors of the same couple’s Manhattan apartment,66jogo he had imagined his clients were not two young New York professionals but European émigré academics from another era, “communists who haven’t reconciled their family fortunes with their political beliefs.” The resulting space feels at once familiar — it’s a bohemian SoHo loft with Persian carpets and utilitarian metal fixtures — and beautifully unhinged: In the living area, a 17th-century Flemish painting showing the severed head of John the Baptist hangs on a wall covered entirely with cork tiles.

0066betImageIn the living room, a Kassl Editions Pillow sofa, a leather lounge chair by Jean Prouvé for Tecta and a pair of 1980s Aeto floor lamps by Fabio Lombardo flanking a fireplace wrapped in a textile work by Sophie Stone.Credit...Blaine Davis

ON A WARM, windless August afternoon in Dutchess County, a bay horse from the neighboring farm wanders slowly along the road that leads from town toward the house. Crickets chirp in the grass beside the driveway, which winds up a bluff, past two towering fir trees and a columned portico, to the side of the building. From the outside, nothing looks out of step. Inside, almost everything between the scrubbed pine floors and beamed ceilings is purposefully not quite as it should be. “We all felt there was a way to do an upstate home that isn’t like anything we’d seen before,” says Charlap Hyman, seated on a black leather-and-chrome Jean Prouvé armchair in the living room. Behind him, the building’s original red brick fireplace has been wrapped partly in a sprawling asymmetrical textile work by the New York-based artist Sophie Stone, who makes shaggy patchworks by retooling materials like crochet and rag rugs “that are almost cliché in a country house,” Charlap Hyman explains. Two spindly 1980s floor lamps by the Italian designer Fabio Lombardo for Flos stand on either side of the work, their almond-shaped tops like unblinking iridescent eyes.

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