Dreamhouses. Penny Drue Baird

Architectural Digest Top 100 interior designer Penny Drue Baird s rooms are universally admired for their seamless weaving of past and present. From luxurious Manhattan apartments and a jewel-toned Parisian pied-a-terre, to family homes in Connecticut and New Jersey, and a whimsical Bucks County barn, Baird s work is the result of deep client relationships that have lasted for decades. A Tudor-style house is redesigned to feel fresher as its owners tastes mature, an airy Beverly Hills villa follows a young bachelor s first apartment in The San Remo, and sumptuous fabrics and textures provide a modern backdrop for the vintage collections of the chicest person Baird knows.
Baird incorporates bold architectural gestures tufted niches, gold-leaf and turquoise coffered ceilings, classical moldings and other made-from-scratch details with fabrics from taffeta to practical corduroy, and unexpected finishes like mother of pearl and strie painted walls, trompe l oeil limestone, classic bead board, or end-grain wood