Woven art entitled I Spy by William Storms
hangs over the homes original staircase.
A chair from DeMuro Das swathed in
fabric from Dedar in the paneled gallery.
To Hollywood power couple Ruben Fleischer and Holly Shakoor Fleischer’s 10,000 square feet Tudor Revival home in Montclair, New Jersey—which was built in 1908 and had previously served as a designer showhouse—we added a sense of cohesion, stripping out some newer elements that had been added over the years, to focus on the building’s original details. We lightened up the formal living room with sculptural furniture, like an asymmetrical velvet-covered boomerang sofa atop a shaggy patchwork Moroccan rug from Beni Rugs (it was the largest rug the company had ever made, and we personally traveled to Morocco to inspect it on the loom). In the dining room, we resurfaced the fireplace surround with custom watery-blue glazed tile, painted the original woodwork deep midnight blue, and added floral wallpaper that played off the Kehinde Wiley painting that we hung in the room. Then, because the family loves playing together, we created a video arcade for their vintage machines, an art-making room, and a Lego-building room, in addition to his-and-hers offices.
Artwork by Kehinde Wiley and an antique
Chinese Art Deco rug visually anchor the
dramatic dining room.
The dining room fireplace was framed in
brass and surrounded by blue glazed tiles
from Bantam Tiles.
A mohair-covered vintage sectional sofa
by M. Fillmore Harty and a Macaron chair
by Gal Gaon for Nilufar in the living room.
The plant-filled music room is painted
in Soft Satin by Benjamin Moore.
The attic playroom is painted in Benjamin
Moore Silky Smooth with May Meadow
wallpaper from Rebel Walls below.
The family’s screening room is imbued with dark navy.
The video arcade with Mixed Tape
wallpaper by Rebel Walls.
A multi-colored corded lamp installation
lights the children's art room.
A custom-made piñata by Confetti System and
a headboard upholstered in fabric from Imogen
Heath in one of the children’s bedrooms.
General Contractor: Brinton Brosius
Millwork: New Antiquity
Studio DB team: Britt Zunino, Damian Zunino, Victor Badami II, Julia Bialke, Peyton Maxwell, Michael Powell, Jada Nolan