Nina Farmer Interiors

For Boston-based interior designer Nina Farmer, one of the great pleasures of her craft is finding novel ways to engage furnishings from different eras and genres in decorative dialogue with each other. In this brownstone parlor on Boston’s Beacon Hill, the banter is certainly genial and lively. Which is appropriate, since this is where her clients host bridge parties. They also happen to be Anglophiles, so Farmer went hunting for furnishings with a British accent. On 1stDibs, she scored the reproduction English Regency globe lantern from Jamb in London and the charming Victorian bamboo console from Newel in New York. As her interiors are all about diversity, she also scooped up from the site wrought-iron campaign chairs by Cleo Baldon, a little-known but towering figure in mid-century California design. (They came from ModHaus, in nearby Peabody, Massachusetts.) These she upholstered in a piquant paprika-hued leather, which, combined with a custom-made moss-green velvet sofa and curry-toned wallpaper, makes for an enveloping space that looks very much of the moment.