A PIECE OF HISTORY

Michael Bruno, the founder of 1stDibs, knew this historic house would be the perfect home for his collection of antique and vintage finds

- JULIET BENNING

In the foothills of the Ramapo Mountains lies Michael Bruno’s Tuxedo Park home. The road to it winds around a frozen lake with the snow-covered pine trees reminiscent of an Alpine landscape. Only a half-hour drive from the edge of New York City, the extraordinary community of Tuxedo Park is where the entrepreneur and founder of 1stDibs has finally settled. ‘I typically like to move every eight years so that I can redecorate and I’ve looked around but I can’t find another house that makes me as happy as this one does.’

Michael’s original motive in finding a new home was to move closer to his office in the city. ‘I lived 40 blocks away and it could take forever to get there,’ he says. Tipped off about the historic houses in Tuxedo Park, Michael viewed five in one day, returning to buy one a week later. ‘Tuxedo has so many beautiful old homes it’s almost like living in a historic house museum park,’ he says, laughing. He now shares the house with Alexander, his partner of 20 years, and two handsome retrievers, Boris and Natasha.