Take a deep love of nature, mix a healthy dose of disco and fashion and add a passionate bunch of luxuries and you have Fawn Galli cocktail design. It’s unpredictable, witty, and whimsical as she likes it, and so are her clients who appreciate her ability to spot their deepest design desires even if they don’t know what they are. Join us for a behind-the-scenes visit with a designer at her eclectic townhouse in Brooklyn, where her fearless approach to design proves that everything works in “the surreal spark of (her) conflicting worlds”.
Growing up in the wilds of Northern California (first a houseboat and then a cabin in the woods), Fawn developed “a deep sensitivity to space and the environment and the idea that a home could be a magical place.”
After time in Paris and extensive travel always in search of an exotic adventure and bohemian entertainment scene, she ended up in New York where a job at an antique shop led to the decorative arts department at Christie’s, followed by positions at prestigious firms Robert AM Stern and Peter Marino.
All of these experiences have contributed to Fawn’s ability to create interiors that are partly fantasy and partly practical – her own vibrant version of form and function. Through the prism of layered textiles and furniture and a dizzying combination of high and low, Fawn has an unusual ability to create a dazzling vision and make it all look effortless.
three photographs above by author Stacey Bewkes for Quintessence
But behind it outside the box space are established principles of design of scale, structure, balance and color, which in his book are distilled into five elements (Nature, Conflict, Surrealism, Bohemian and Sparkle), Magic rooms.
Any large space in Newport,
photo Costas Picadas
or a fantastic apartment in downtown New York,
photo Costas Picadas
Fawn’s spaces encourage us to live expansively and express our individuality in our own homes. So thank you Fawn, we are so inspired by your enchanting creativity!
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