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BROOKE GIANNETTI—INTERIOR DESIGNER, business owner and blogger—understands that “life isn’t about the things you own but about the experiences you have with them.” Furniture, decorative accents, doors and windows are all imbued with this hidden narrative. A new book, Patina Style, by Brooke and her husband, Steve, “embraces the life in things,” celebrating the alterations time inflicts on objects and mingling Old World charm with new modern insights.
INTEGRATE OPPOSITES
Brooke and Steve re-imagined their home through a unique dichotomy: “Our personal style began to come forth as a reflection of our personalities. That special chemistry that is created from the dynamic interplay of opposites.”
This story is from the September 2017 edition of Romantic Homes.
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