Take a deep love for nature, mix a healthy dose of disco and costumes and add an emotional touch of luxury and you will have Von Galley Design cocktail. Unexpected, witty and eccentric is the way she loves it and so do her clients who appreciate her ability to realize their deepest design desires even if they don’t know what it is. Join us for a behind-the-scenes visit with the designer at her eclectic home in Brooklyn as her bold design approach proves that everything works in the “surreal glamor of her clashing worlds”.
Growing up in the wilds of Northern California (initially 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 can be a magical place.”
After spending time in Paris and always intense travel in search of an exotic adventure and bohemian party scene, she ended up in New York where a job at an antique store led to the decorative arts division of Christie’s followed by positions at prestigious companies of Robert AM Stern and Peter Marino.
All of these experiences contributed to Fawn’s ability to create interiors that are one part imaginative and another part practical – her vital version of form and function. With a perspective of textiles, layered furnishings, and an heady mix of highs and lows, Fawn has the uncanny ability to create a radiant vision and make it look effortless.
Three photos above by Stacey Bewkes for Quintessence
But behind them are spaces outside the box there are inherent design principles of scale, structure, balance and color, which are distilled into five elements (nature, conflict, surrealism, bohemian and luster) in her book, Magic rooms.
Whether it is a large area in Newport,
Photography by Costas Picadas
Or a cool apartment in downtown New York,
Photography by Costas Picadas
Fawn’s spaces encourage us to live expansively and express our individuality in our homes. So thank you Fawn, we’re so inspired by your charming creativity!
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