THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Dewhirst, right, with her husband, Tom Couture, inside The Black Iris. Dewhirst cut out the floral details in the foyer’ s wallpaper by hand; Dewhirst drove to Canada with her cat, Kangaroo, to buy some of the dining room’ s chairs; the living room’ s walls and ceilings are done in Benjamin Moore’ s Wasabi, and the tile floor is based on the weave structure of satin( Dewhirst is also a weaver); the greenhouse features iridescent Moroccan tiles in a star-shaped pattern, similar to ones she saw in a hotel during a high school trip to Morocco; family photos and wallpaper based on an 1895 design, Tulip and Bird by C. F. A. Voysey, wrap around a first-floor powder room.
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