About Us

Photo Credit: Kit Noble

You would never know it when looking at the modern houses I have decorated, but I grew up in a historic house which was actually built in the late 1600s. I lived in the quaint little town of Concord, MA, where the highlight of the year was April 19th, when we all dressed up as minute men or minute women and watched re-enactments of revolutionary war battles at the Old North Bridge.

My parents loved renovating old houses and collecting art and antiques, so a career in interior design doesn’t seem far fetched. Add to that the fact that my father was a real estate investor, my mother was a costume and textile curator for the Antiquarian Museum, and that I was the benefactor of multiple tutorials at the knee of my architectural historian godfather as he studied and wrote about the Great Houses and Castles of Ireland, a career path in interior design was ultimately inevitable.

But, after studying art in college, initially I chose a different career path. Straight out of college, I was hired by Polaroid company founder, Dr. Land, to work with a new technology under development that used a room-sized camera to create life-size photographs of art. I went on to build the world’s largest instant camera (3 stories tall!) inside the Vatican Museums in Rome, to photograph Raphael’s last great masterpiece at life size. From this we created an amazing didactic exhibition that traveled around the world. Eventually, I helped to create the Polaroid Museum Replica business, selling incredibly detailed art reproductions of museum masterpieces through museum shops and home furnishings retailers. All told, I worked for 16 years at Polaroid, with the majority of my time spent looking at art at close range in the world’s most wonderful museums. Dr. Fabrizio Mancinelli, former Curator of Paintings for the Vatican Museums, once paid me the best compliment when he said to me “Victoria, you probably have one of the most well trained eyes of anyone I have ever met!”

During my time at Polaroid, I continued to pursue my own creative work as a photographic artist, as well as my passion for renovating houses. When I left Polaroid, I enrolled at the New York School of Interior Design to broaden my design skills, and started my own business at the encouragement of a professor shortly after. I feel extraordinarily privileged to have had this unique, rich background, and as such, am eager to share it. The way that I have been sharing it for the last 18 years has been through educating my clients, and creating wonderful, comfortable, beautiful spaces for them to live and work in. Occasionally I’ve even had the opportunity to give back to the community through funds raised from my show house work, such as the Greenwich Summer Days at Merrywood Show House, the Philip Johnson Modern Show House, and the New Canaan Historical Society’s 2009 Modern House Tour.

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