Step Inside Dara Caponigro’s New York Home

We should start with the elephant in the room. Dara Caponigro, erstwhile shelter magazine editor, author, and creative director of one of the last independent American design houses (that would be Schumacher) lives not in a bedazzled, betasseled extravaganza of a house swimming in pattern and props. The insiders’ insider’s home base is notable not for its excessiveness, but for an under-the-radar sophistication of interiors that reveals the careful eye of a connoisseur.

“As a creative director you’re always exploring the next thing and you fall in love with so much of it,” says Caponigro. “You introduce a new piece or a pattern and you’re like, I’ve got to have that.” But a consequence of a professional life with a finger on the pulse of the design world is that, well, your finger is on the pulse of the design world. The been-there-done-that filter through which you evaluate everything is the very skill that keeps you from bringing all the fireworks home. “This house is an escape. It’s filled with stuff I don’t get sick of.”
Which means that whatever has made it into the 1920s Georgian in the Fieldston section of the Bronx, in New York, has got to be good. The house’s well-proportioned spaces, cloaked in barely-there hues of clouds and sand and fog, are filled with vetted furnishings that were patiently pursued by a top-shelf arbiter. “If you’re picky and can’t justify spending gobs of money, you have to wait. But I like the wait. You appreciate things more if you have to be thoughtful about acquiring them,” she says. Caponigro is an habitué of flea markets, off-the-beaten-path antiques stores and online markets, one who plays the long game to achieve alchemy.

Produced by Tori Mellott. https://www.instagram.com/torimellott...
Edited by Alex Sapp. https://www.alexandrasapp.com/
Photos by Max Kim-Bee. https://maxkimbee.com/
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