For a married couple with divergent design tastes, the designer created a maximalist space that deftly blends their competing aesthetic impulses.
A few years back, a couple approached Corey Damen Jenkins with an unusual request: that he play referee. He said yes, and the resulting project is among the homes featured in the New York designer’s new book, Design Reimagined: A Fresh and Colorful Take on Timeless Rooms. Here, he describes a lively, layered entertaining space and shares how he helped the young pair—one a modernist with a taste for Vladimir Kagan, the other a Ralph Lauren enthusiast with a collection of traditional pieces from a family estate—find a comfortable middle ground that represents both points of view.

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