Blue + white + brown: Pattern mix + Farrow & Ball's 'Cook's Blue'

Designer Carleton Varney’s zeal for color and pattern is usually a bit much for my tame(r) sensibilities, but this den is a fabulous example of using super-saturated color (Farrow & Ball’s Cook’s Blue) to great effect. I’m crazy about the coffee table—it’s ‘Ames’, from Vivavi (www.vivavi.com).

 

Would you believe this is a Wisconsin lake cottage, overlooking Green Bay?

 

Sofa: Carlyle, carlylesofas.com; fabric: Potalla by China Seas

Chair fabric: Meloire Reverse in Pacific Blue by China Seas

Pillow fabrics: Meloire Reverse in New Brown and Potalla Background in Brown, both by China Seas

Paintings: Sylvia Roth (Chisholm Gallery, chisholmgallery.com)

Lamp: Crate & Barrel

Carpet: Country Swedish

 

Photo by Mikkel Vang, House Beautiful, Feb. 2009.

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