Two sets of French doors were added to the east side of the space, and sliding barn doors were added over them to keep the look of a barn from outside. The faces of the figures are so magical, she says. Every item on this page was chosen by a Veranda editor. The only man-made object is a 19th-century Greek oil jar that Williams and Rosselli found on a trip to the South of France. Each year the color story for this garden changes with the selection of Spring tulips and Summer annuals. Happy March to all! Im soooo trying to justify how, since its just me, its ok for my place to not come close to 1/32nd of their place! Visiting Real Housewives of New York (RHONY) Dorinda Medleys home Blue Stone Manor in Great Barrington, Massachusetts 7-17-2017, To put it another wayNo Furniture Botox. Most Excellent again Mr. Fredas always!! By Bunny Williams, John Rosselli, Rizzoli International Publications. Hi there Paula, best of luck keeping your chickens safe. Bunny is a huge fan of hurricane lamps, and of candlelight in general. Bunny signing my copy of her book, Bunny Williams Point of View, Three Decades of Decorating Elegant and Comfortable Houses, that I had brought from home. What kind of business does Bunny Williams have? You dont have to be in the kitchen for eight hours. If you walk into a room and it looks like no one has ever sat on the sofawell, guess what? He already had a partial space in an old carriage house . Fred- Your dedication of your Own time in taking us on this tour with you and writing up such a Glorious, fact filled report is just Wonderful. They are fabulous. The interior designer and her husband, John Rosselli, an antiques dealer, are selling their longtime home for $3.995 million. The project was quite involved, at one point the barn was taken apart, board by board, leaving only the hand-hewn post and beam frame. It was like, What are we going to do with all this furniture?, so I said, Lets build a house in the Dominican Republic! jokes the lady of the house. Another business started a few years ago was Beeline Home. Yes, graphic artists can help you style and express that image into professional packaging, but its not up to them to create it out of nothing. Julid, if it helps I understood what you were saying and could not agree more. Bunny Williams mantra is to furnish your home with what you love; furnish with qualitythings that will stand the test of time. The maintenance is. Its heaven waking up in her pale turquoise bedroom, says Bunny. Instead she went to a liberal arts school with an interior design program. Just walking through the different garden areas and around the house and other out buildings, gives you so many more different beautiful sights to see. Bunny stenciled the original pine floorboards in the entryway with a pattern resembling giant tortoiseshells. Lamps, Floor Lamps, Candlesticks & Hurricanes, Sconces, Hanging Fixtures & Flushmounts and Wall Lanterns. The beds are surrounded by boxwood which is planted to forms square and diamond shapes; annuals are planted between the boxwood. And giving John a reason to want to hate me. John found the huge blocks of limestone while looking around a stone-cutters lot in the south of France, which Bunny says are, suitable for a Parisian bassin; they surround the gunite lap pool. I need to give you a hug!. Your email address will not be published. Perfectly styled and gorgeous console table at a pop up store. In my room a pair of mirrored Venetian cabinet doors mounted on the walls reflect the azure of the pool, and the pedimented antique Regency-style shelves are filled with shells collected both locally and online. Looking onto the parterre garden is The Conservatory, which is the dining room for the Party Barn. And that one thing alone is what makes her the super star of super stars! No time to think. Theyre perfect for two, or one person and several dogs, which is usually the case, she explains of the oversize lounges designed by Oscar de la Renta for Century. Today # theglampad is touring the new apartment of Bunny Williams Home and her husband # JohnRoselli. Today, Bunny shares her chaise with just one dog, Bob, a terrier mutt whose wiry wheat-colored coat matches the flecked Coralina stone of the terrace. But still, he hates me because Im writing about his wife, an icon in the world of interior design who I adore more than I can possibly say. Fair enough. Treillage () derives its name from the storied garden antiques shop run by Bunny and her husband John Rosselli on Manhattan's Upper East Side from 1991 to 2015. To start off the day you must envision a quintessential New England Fall day: sunny, cool, crisp, leaves changing colors. Everywhere, including the guest bedrooms, there are pomanders and things that smell good, such as the amaryllis and paperwhites she starts forcing just after Thanksgiving. In her speech she says how she loves table cloths from places like Pier One Imports (uh huh) and Anthropologie! Having spent more than 40 years developing her craft as the secretary at renowned New York firm Parish-Hadley, Bunny later established her own company, Bunny Williams, Inc. She and her husband, the successful antique dealer John Rosselli, also opened the Treillage on Manhattan's Upper East Side in the early 1990s. Their home and gardens are exqusite but knowing the costs of the maintenance they must be paying I shudder for them to maintain all those georgeous gardens and their pool. John is the owner of John Rosselli and Associates with showrooms in New York City, Washington, DC, Dania Beach, FL and Chicago, IL. Bunny always had a propensity for decorating and really wanted to go to Parsons but her mom said no. To me, the Sunken Garden area of the estate has seen the most reworking. . A slightly worn table and set of chairs areperfectly at home on the porch. There are many more things that I could show you but a blog post can only be soo long. . Bunny and John are very social, hosting dinners for friends in groups of upto 12 several times a week. They enrich us as we spend more time there. Our final space of examination is The Sunken Garden, which is on the south side of the house and close to the patio area. In fact, it was de la Renta who was responsible for La Colina to begin with, having long ago introduced Bunny and John to his enclave on the southeastern tip of the Dominican Republic. Bunny Williams is married to her husband John Rosselli for over 25 years now. Its good exercise, youre outside, and whats more beautiful than a flower? How much china does Bunny Williams own? They opened up a gardening and antiques shop called Treillage on 418 E. 75th Street. Delightfully unsterile! All About Wainscoting + The One Thing You Must Never Do, 12 of the Best Paint Colors To Go With Red Brick. We had our own gardner who happily taught me everything he knew about gardening, various plants and soil along with my grandparent neighbors with their organic garden who were more then happy to let me help them in their garden when they were there working on it. A Purple Color Scheme That Purple Haters Love! On either side of the mirrors hang four-by- eight-foot panels painted by an artist in Johns studio in imitation of 18th-century Chinese designs. In addition to renovating and decorating the federal-style house, Bunny has created multiple gardens and used the windowed facade of a 19th-century house to transform the existing barn into a conservatory. When I first visited the property over ten years ago, there was a stone wall with steps in it that terraced the land from the lawn, by the house, down to a flat area where a reflection pool with carp and goldfish was; and that water feature still forms the centerpiece of the garden. The parterre garden is laid out in a grid of four beds, two large and two small, surrounded by paths of old bricks. New York School of Interior Design held it's Annual Dinner on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at The Rainbow Room Honoring Bunny Williams & John Rosselli with the Albert Hadley Lifetime Achievement Award Edmund Hollander with the Thomas N. Armstrong III Award in Landscape Design New York Restoration Project with the Green Design Award and celebrating Landmark Interiors of New York City Dinner Chairmen . In Williamss own spacethe much-documented farmhouse in Falls Village, Connecticut that she shares with her husband, antiques dealer John Rossellishe carries on the same traditions. John Rosselli's apartment makes the case for collecting. Bunny is one of the best and we are kindred spirits! Until recently there were only two dogs, says Bunny, but a dog adopted us last weekend. Bunny tops her sofa cushions with washable throws and uses sea grass as a floor covering in many rooms because she likes itscasual feel and how easy it is to clean, whether shes dealing with dirt, dog mistakes, or red wine. The first thing me California based son said to me was, Make the yard and pool look like we are in California or Michigan while the reality was and still is that house sits in the middle of the Mojave DesertNo mean feat but in our large lot for LV I created a beautiful garden landscape including fifteen rose bushes in just the front yard alone and we must live with CC&Rs which are every home owners nightmare but in planned communities they are the norm. Photo by the fabulous lifestyle blogger Stacy Bewkes of Quintessence. The property of Bunny Williams and John Rosselli encompasses twelve acres of varied gardens, including woodland, vegetable, parterre, orchard, perennial borders and many container displays that surround the 1840's Federal home. Almost 60 years after John Rosselli opened his first shop in Manhattan, he presides over a thriving home furnishings empire that includes stores and showrooms filled with antiques, accessories, fabric, reproduction furniture, and lighting. Not everything in the house is perfect, and this is by design. One of Johns big pieces of furniture, seen above, is the nine-foot-tall mahogany Southern plantation bed used in the guest room of the Party Barn. Furlow had a shop on 66thStreet near my own, filled with lovely things. Mismatched sets of green, brown, and white potteryfrom new Crate and Barrel to old Wedgwoodll the rest of the cabinets. With extreme admiration, I remember staring at this room, (I believe it was in House Beautiful) for hours. I love the slip covers out of crisp ticking and the pretty chintz ottoman with a box pleated skirt. I used to have to go around and light all of these candles, but that took too long. Treillage is a gorgeous shop filled with antiques and new items for the garden or anywhere in your home. John is the owner of John Rosselli and Associates with showrooms in New York City, Washington, DC, Dania Beach, FL and Chicago, IL. For more vertical tension (height) in the space two Italian oil jars and two dwarf Korean lilacs bring the eye up above the boxwood and seasonal flowers. Over the years twin perennial gardens on both the east and west side of the garden seemed to have gotten deeper and the back wall of the garden is still made up of a tall yew hedge, which has a pretty arbor in its center, that now leads to the Bird House Village. John Rosselli Antiques 306 East 61st Street, New York. 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