New digs, same belongings, different take. “I brought so much stuff up here,” says interior decorator Bunny Williams—first named to the AD100 in 1995 and elevated to its Hall of Fame three years ago—of the Manhattan apartment that she shares with her husband, John Rosselli, the legendary antiques dealer and home-furnishings maestro. “It was just fun to rehang all the pictures, add some new things, and change it up,” she adds. “I can spend hours playing house.”
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Located on an upper floor of the palatial 1920s French Gothic Revival pile that Williams has called home for decades, the two-bedroom flat fell into her expert hands in 2018, right at the time she and Rosselli began craving something different. “We wanted a little bit more space, and I wanted more light,” she explains. Rosselli, stepping into the library to join the chat, chimes in, “At ten minutes after nine, the sun starts to turn, and this whole section of the building just brightens up.”
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Solar desires answered, a swift, smart, inspiring renovation followed. Moldings now ennoble the formerly detail-free walls, an aristocratic marble mantel went into the living room, down went eye-catching carpets old and new (“I didn’t want to do sisal again,” the decorator says), and up went the art, from 19th-century Orientalist paintings (Rosselli’s passion since boyhood) to colorful canvases that only look important. “People say, ‘Oh, your art is so wonderful,’ ” Williams explains with a delicious laugh. “And I’m like, ‘I think I paid $200 for that in a junk shop.’ You don’t have to have a lot of money to have a very chic house.”
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