When my wife saw it, she cried because it was so beautiful.
A Noguchi pendant light is suspended beside the two-story tall stone and plaster fireplace.
The fireplace runs all the way to the ceiling, which features reclaimed beamed supports.
Sourced from Marshall Farm Woodworworks on Chappaquiddick Island, the dining table is paired with Monk chairs by Carlo Scarpa and sits beneath an antique candelabra. The window-walled room gives diners the feeling of being outside on the property’s oak grove.
(Ariel explains that it will weather to a gray to match the Marthas Vineyard vernacular.)
Behind the living room sits the kitchen.
Twin pendants by Rose Uniacke hover above the island which is painted blacknow a signature of the family.
A Noguchi pendant light is suspended beside the two-story tall stone and plaster fireplace. Antique finds surround the hearth, including firetools from RT Facts in Kent, Connecticut and coil baskets from the local Chilmark Flea Market.
Outside, a combination of paned glass and picture windows add a layered look to the barn-like home.
The house is surrounded by farms and farmland, it needed to relate to that.
Humor lives there, adds Ariel.
The fireplace runs all the way to the ceiling, which features reclaimed beamed supports.
A view from the pantry to the entryway and a tiny radish painting by Antonello Radi from Il Buco.
Splatterware dishes from March SF are stacked in the shelves.
A limewash treatment on the overmantle in moody gray adds sophistication to the focus point.
In the living room, a custom sofa, custom coffee table by Robert Pluhowski, and a chair from Ashe Leandro’s furniture line, Ruemmler no 612, orients guests toward conversation around the hearth.
A baroque walnut cabinet from Cafiero Select stands tall as the familys favorite piece.
The secretary style cabines is now a bar stocked with Gucci stirrup cups Alexi collected.
Their New York kitchen kicked off a black kitchen trend, in my opinion, says Ariel.
Behind the living room sits the kitchen. Twin pendants by Rose Uniacke hover above the island which is painted black—now a signature of the family.
For the real thing, a covered porch is populated with furniture for outdoor summertime living.
Patterns play in the guest room with a vintage Moroccan rag rug and bed throw by Jeanette Farrier.
Upstairs, arched doorways lead to bedrooms where subtle nautical touches abound.
A view from the pantry to the entryway and a tiny radish painting by Antonello Radi from Il Buco. Splatterware dishes from March SF are stacked in the shelves.
In true Marthas Vineyard fashion, this home is filled with aged designs.
An unfinished 17th-century Portuguese silk tapestry draws the eye in the primary bedroom.
Custom his and hers vanities flank the Agape Ottocento bathtub.
The breakfast room, furnished with a reclaimed pine table by Rob Pluhoski, antique Gustavian dining chairs, and a light by Carlo Scarpa, offers a prime vista of the Eben Armer-designed fireplace.
I sent it to my sister, and she just said, What?
I was like, Just say yes!
And we bought it and its everyones favorite piece.
A baroque walnut cabinet from Cafiero Select stands tall as the family’s favorite piece.
Another benefit of decorating for your family?
Not having tofullylet go of some of your long-held antiques.
A sconce Ariel found in a Parisian flea market has made its way into the powder room.
The secretary style cabines is now a bar stocked with Gucci stirrup cups Alexi collected.
Scrolls feature throughout the home as a nautical motif.
A colorful view of a guest bedroom.
Theres so much cooking happening all the timeand cocktails.
Michael Trapp’s iron chairs add a punch of red to the outdoor living spaces furnished with a table from Montage Antiques and daybeds from Janus et Cie.
Its full of life, says Ariel.
As for whether or not Seth was able to abide by his wifes original wish?
Sheep in the boys bedroom pays homage to the real-life sheep at a nearby farm.
Oak trees and boulders unearthed from the property fill the lawn of the cedar planked house.
A miniature oyster painting by the entryway.
Patterns play in the guest room with a vintage Moroccan rag rug and bed throw by Jeanette Farrier.
A 1970s monkey rattan lamp sits atop a Zijlstra Meubelen desk in walnut and brass that Seth uses as his Podcast HQ in the summers.
In the primary bedroom, a Navajo rug purchased by Seth for Alexi as a gift sits by the window bench.
An unfinished 17th-century Portuguese silk tapestry draws the eye in the primary bedroom.
Custom his and hers vanities flank the Agape Ottocento bathtub.
Scrolls feature throughout the home as a nautical motif.
A colorful view of a guest bedroom.
Sheep in the boys’ bedroom pays homage to the real-life sheep at a nearby farm.
A miniature oyster painting by the entryway.
