Sara Story’s new book, “The Art of Home” (Rizzoli), showcases the interior designer’s global-boho aesthetic via homes she’s decorated in New York, Colorado, Texas and California — including three of four residences that she shares with her husband and their children.
(Those residences are located in Manhattan, Snedens Landing, NY, and Texas; the family also has a place in Paris.)
All of the homes in the book are elevated by their great views and art collections, says Story, who grew up in Asia and Houston — her father was in the oil business and her mother was a museum curator.
One of those star properties is the couple’s Gramercy Park five-story brownstone — they first purchased a 500-square-foot studio there and now own nine out of 10 units in the 1849 Italianate building (there’s a single garden-level hold-out).
“It’s a little bit of a craft project — like a Wes Anderson film,” Story says. “[The house] has a lot of character and has been put together in a very loving way, with all the creaks that make it interesting. It’s not like a townhouse that someone has renovated, where everything is perfect. It’s a more eclectic approach.”
Which sums up the essence of Story’s style, and her ability to make client visions happen, including a retired financier in Austin, Texas.
“He said he wanted an opium den-meets-Lenny Kravitz-meets-‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ ” she says with a laugh. As for the Gramercy Park home, Story says: “Everything has happened in a very organic way. But I do feel like we need to complete the puzzle.”
Perhaps that’s the next book.
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