Entry Hall and Guest Rooms, Residential House, Greenwich, CT, 1964

Artist/Designer: Thom Filicia

Project Location: Connecticut, United States

Figure 1: The Entry Hall of a house in Greenwich, CT, with interior design by William (Billy) Baldwin whose firm at the time was Baldwin and Martin. Built in the 1930s, the house received Baldwin's design work in the early 1960s. About the entry hall: "Designed in the 1930s, remains fresh and pertinent today. Lacquer, a black and white still modern carpet, Dutch chairs in quilted beige linen, a remarkable beige floor in patterned stone, brilliant emerald-glass sconces all contribute to the timeless decoration." ( Photographer: Photographer Louis H. Frohman, published in The Finest Rooms by America's Great Decorators )

Figure 2: In a guest bedroom at the house in Greenwich, "a seventeenth-century East India Company print is used....Green raw silk covers the Edwardian tufted chair." ( Photographer: Photographer Louis H. Frohman, published in The Finest Rooms by America's Great Decorators )

Figure 3: In another guest bedroom, "1830 Lammermoor romanticism comes to life in a small guest room measuring only fourteen feet by twelve feet. The bed is hung with white organza, and the bedspread, also white, has embroidered green tassels. The tartan carpet is black and white and the green of the dressing table, bedside table, and windows accents the clover-leaf wallpaper, which is of recent design." ( Photographer: Photographer Louis H. Frohman, published in The Finest Rooms by America's Great Decorators )

Style/Period(s):
Revival Styles

Primary Material(s):
Fabric, Textile

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

Architectural Digest "Design Legends" issue, January 2000 print issue of magazine | Accessed : October 10, 2017

Apartment Therapy profile of Billy Baldwin | Accessed : October 10, 2017

New York Times, 1983. Billy Baldwin's obituary | Accessed : October 10, 2017

Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1960-1969

Additional Information:
Tweed, Katherine, ed. and Russell Lynes. The Finest Rooms by America's Great Decorators (New York: The Viking Press, 1964). 38, 39.

Lewis, Adam. Billy Baldwin: The Great American Decorator (New York: Rizzoli, 2010).

Baldwin, Billy. Billy Baldwin Remembers (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974).

Baldwin, Billy. Billy Balwin Decorates (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972).

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