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But not all of the couple’s accouterments are from their
travels. Nick is also an accomplished potter and he made many
of the objects; still others Joanna picked up at thrift stores,
Paysage Home and even HomeGoods. Some she spray-painted
inside the craft room she shared with her daughter, but that
room over the garage has been co-opted as an audition space
for Nick.
When it came to decorating the ground-level spaces and
establishing a color palette, Joanna turned to her mask
collection.
“There is a particular mask that has this deep red … mixed
with teals,” she says. The two colors were the jumping-off point
for the living room palette.”
Nick Basta’s hand-thrown pottery is arranged
against Scalamandre’s “Moire” lacquer red wallpaper
behind built-in shelves and niches. On a
brass table beside the gold leaf bamboo Vanguard
chair are whimsical owls Joanna Miles-Basta found
at a New Orleans craft fair. StoneImpressions hand-
blocked custom dyed limestone tiles edged in
Saybrook’s Deco Dots Collection surround the
wood burning fireplace.
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