{"id":75457,"date":"2025-12-19T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75457\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:33:19","slug":"time-not-trends-shaped-this-1870-brooklyn-town-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75457\/","title":{"rendered":"Time, Not Trends, Shaped This 1870 Brooklyn Town Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jessica Sailer and her husband fell for an 1870s Italianate building on a quiet block in Brooklyn Heights, they were willing to endure a number of attendant concessions. Given considerable renovation delays, the couple and their three young children went through a series of small rental apartments and, for a period, lived exclusively on the home\u2019s top floor. There, meals were cooked on a hot plate in the laundry room while Sailer, a jewelry entrepreneur and former fashion editor, who had a broken ankle at the time, would descend four flights of stairs sitting down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Forrest Landis Princess Alexandra of Hanover Architecture Building Dining Room and Dining Table\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AD0126_SAILOR_2%20copy.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Sailer with her daughters Vivienne, left, and Delphine, and son, Nico, in the dining room. Circa 1890 Genovese chandelier; Jansen table and chairs; circa 1640 boar hunt painting by Frans Snyders.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Art Painting Indoors Interior Design Animal Canine Dog Mammal Pet Plant and Flower\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AD0126_SAILOR_3%20copy.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the study, a pair of 18th-century porphyry pedestals stand atop a Roman Neoclassical gilt-wood console table. Mid-17th-century painting of hunting dogs by David de Coninck.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Home Decor Furniture Cushion Plant Rug Bed and Pillow\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AD0126_SAILOR_5%20copy.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A circa 1950 Jacques\u00a0Adnet daybed in Naboika\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/cna.st\/affiliate-link\/5HJzsPvR3PTqsNDCdBQRd7bDaj5fQDyQXMegemdKm8e6SsnhBAJVADcWxoEZB2sz9huuansdhbDheL82Ltfp9FDptPTni2TNcZKuSqRzRNy1Z8eoAn7U1Ba3NxYZNA2PQYMvZL5EYQwcBeCUyb76NJYPzKrTEBGwnCP96uZUtyBoXfc69up7qLHGRytENbjPQizDKf3YLPowe3nQYVsTdoVW2Q6oGeto5wievk8cab1BJS4PX8FFvm63gXQk9Nhix2bKzVMurHeyT3SJpXSDVfzQs16QNhzuFGMWDFTijDSRQTCjYoqYddxb4HjnhKhvrq1kRKyriRWdgwGxnc9omDpFJoeTpXXoKw7iwmq3x8z474ktSu4zXtEq4ZTMFLjSRuwYQK6iqbxAmF1ovwMriazHvxYw4EqX29CBgQSYDTFcKGvR3wR9218rRmPQAjTZz6rBBm6\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" isaffiliatelink=\"true\">D\u00e9cors Barbares<\/a> centers the family room.<\/p>\n<p>While the couple originally had a minimalist, Parisian vision in mind, after they decided to work with Remy Renzullo\u2014with his own passion for 18th-century houses and layered interiors that look like they\u2019ve been lived-in for generations\u2014there was a shared leap of faith regarding the project\u2019s ultimate direction. The London- and Connecticut-based designer usually avoids relying on visual references, yet in this instance Renzullo felt it might help identify common ground, so he began to pull archival imagery. Whittling away some 70 percent of his research, the trio discovered a shared appreciation for classic architecture and quiet, collected spaces, in the style of Bill Blass, Bruce Budd, Axel Vervoordt, and Rose Tarlow. \u201cThis couldn\u2019t be a reflection of how I think a house should look,\u201d Renzullo shares of their process. \u201cIt has to be about the client, and their personality has to come through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Jessica Sailer and her husband fell for an 1870s Italianate building on a quiet block in Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[21617,98,100,99,1472,9,24,63,15424,14881],"class_list":{"0":"post-75457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-_syndication_noshow","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-magazine","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-storytypedeep-dive","17":"tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}