OPPOSITE PAGE' Coming from a house full of boys, Siegel

craved her own serene retreat. Pale blue Schumacher

wallpaper, a floating tub, Carrara marble on the vanity
countertop and repeated in a basketweave pattern on the

floor help create her 1920s-inspired oasis. Siegel's sister-
in-law, Monica Zamler, brought the crystal chandelier back
from Murano, Italy, for her Birmingham shop, Primi Piatti —

and Siegel promptly took it off her hands. Craig covered the
klismos-style chair in luxurious pink Ralph Lauren towels

— "it's practical and cozy," he says. The artwork above
the tub came from the previous home; its blues, creams
and pinks segue into the cotton-candy pink closet, which

displays many pieces from Siegel's collections. "I love
things that are beautiful but functional," Siegel says. "I
can take a vintage purse off a display wall and walk out to
a wedding." ABOVE: "The living room introduces the entire

color story of the whole house," Steinhaus says. "You can
see bits of the other rooms from this room, see all the rugs,
and see how they don't go together, but they do." Louis
XIV-inspired slipper chairs are covered in a shock of purple-

toned fuchsia, which is repeated in the sofa's throw pillows
and the painting above the sideboard; the walls are covered
in multi-dimensional Venetian plaster.
Overscaled

French damask-patterned wallpaper in deep cobalt blue
covers the foyer and the staircase. "I was just crazy for

it," Steinhaus says. "I thought, since we're both nuts, she
might like it, too. It's quite colossal when you're in there."
Siegel knew she wanted a triptych along the staircase; she
and Steinhaus chose three panels from a wallpaper mural,

had them painted on gold-leaf paper and framed.

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