“Isabella Stewart Gardner was the original Boston patron of the arts. Occupying a Venetian Gothic Revival building defined by its dramatic palazzo courtyard, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is still the beating heart of the city’s art scene, even nearly a century after its founder’s death. The home remained in the hands of the Gardner family from Mrs. Gardner’s death in 1924 until it was sold directly to a young Boston family of five in 2011. By then it was deeply in need of a comprehensive renovation.”
“In the husband’s office, she added an edgy, sculptural light fixture and flat Roman shades in a tonal pattern, and swathed the walls in a Pollack heathered flannel. Four angular purple chairs accompany a bespoke backgammon table by Linley (the husband and son are both big table gamers), while an untitled work by Austrian artist Svenja Deininger riffs off the home’s exterior columns.”
Svenja Deininger