In Architectural Digest’s new exclusive tour of Chroma’s Lily of the Valley, writer Elizabeth Fazzare quickly intuits the concept: home as an expression of the many tendrils of self that thrive in the deep roots of family.

Photographed by Stephen Kent Johnson and styled by Michael Reynolds

“By uniting the studio’s signature fearless use of color and texture,” writes Fazzare, with the clients’ aesthetic sensibilities for Japanese ryokan design and Scandinavian furniture, “Chroma created a personality-driven sanctuary for every member of the trio.” Drawing from “the colors of the world outside its walls,” the home emotes a visual story in dynamic marine hues accented by Chroma’s bold comminglings of vintage and modern furnishings. The design is enlivened by the studio’s art consultancy services, embracing contemporary practices with a rich conceptual understanding of history that infuses every square foot with purpose and intention.

Read the full story. Then delve with us into the details in Tetrachroma 9.

Lily of the Valley living room
Dashiell Manley’s 2023 oil on linen and a vintage Giancarlo Piretti lounge chair, c. 1970s—reupholstered in sheepskin and Brentano textile—set the intention of the living room. Inspired by Japanese aesthetics, the low silhouettes of a custom Chroma lounger and daybed, upholstered in Sandra Jordan Prima Alpaca with Brancusi-influenced block wood details, emanate a grounding presence combed in the stylized zen of a Chroma x Mark Nelson rug—expressing the distinctive and intuitive play of materiality formative to Chroma’s design philosophy.
Lily of the Valley dining room
Enveloped in Howe at 36 Bourne Street leather, vintage Børge Mogensen dining chairs smolder against the ever-so-subtly contrarian elegance of a Rudolph Schindler-inspired banquette, upholstered in a Lauren Hwang textile—the sultry embrace of a striking black-stained Chroma dining table with Shou Sugi Ban base. An intriguing sculptural lightwork in bronze mesh by Nacho Carbonell plays on the contemporary minimalism of a sleek Michael Anastassiades fixture and Sara VanDerBeek’s vibrant Cyclades I, 2018.
Lily of the Valley primary bedroom (left) and primary bathroom (right)
Left: Reposing below a vintage Arne Jacobsen pendant light and unique ilfochrome by Richard Learoyd, the wenge wood bed frame is accented by a custom Chroma headboard with built-in vintage Böhlmarks sconces, c. 1940s. Right: In the primary bath, a walnut Karolina bathtub by Aquatica basks beneath a Michael Anastassiades Fontana Amorosa Bouquet Ceiling Pendant.
Lily of the Valley listening room
A custom Chroma sofa in de Le Cuona corduroy velvet, with pillows in lustrous Prelle and Casamance fabrics, mellows in the dulcet tones of the listening room mantled by a vintage Rene-Jean Caillette floor lamp, c. 1954, and Fair Design’s Floating Block Cocktail Table. Peeking secretly above a custom Chroma wenge wood shelf, Katy Grannan’s Nicole, Desert Hot Springs, CA, 2018, adds an alluring mystique to the consonance.
Lily of the Valley kid's room
Below the moonage of a vintage Italian suspension lamp by Stilnovo, Chroma’s mod iteration on the bunk bed, fitted with powder-coated Monocle scones by RBW, cozies with a custom Lauren Huang coverlet and pillows in Rouse Phillips and Prelle fabrics. The bunk bed’s sun-bleached oak twins with a vintage Verner Panton lounge chair reupholstered in a Rosemary Hallgarten textile, swirled in the cerulean swell of a custom Chroma x Mark Nelson rug.
Lily of the Valley game room
Reupholstered in Howe leather, vintage dining chairs by Nathan Lindberg bandy about a custom Chroma game table—lit by the wry wit of Dieter Vander Velpen and DIM Atelier’s Shark Light in sportive relief of a vintage Milo Baughman for Pacific Iron lounge chair alcoved in the aquatic uncanny of a unique 2017 chromogenic photogram by Adam Fuss.
Lily of the Valley office
A vintage Model 12385 Vela Ceiling Light by Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce suspends belief within the saturated multiplicity of Hugh Scott-Douglas’s Natural History, 2019. Vittorio Nobili’s Medea Armchair and a vintage Frits Henningsen lounge chair league with a custom Chroma desk in walnut tipped in Ashbury leather, counterpoised by Mathieu Matégot’s c. 1950s A Whimsical Table Lamp and the gorgeous distortions of Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert’s handblown glass Matter Vase in Oro.
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