Folk Lure

Translating her fairy-tale vision into The Six Bells Countryside Inn, Audrey Gelman and designer Adam Greco lay on the charm

- SAM COCHRAN

AT THE SIX BELLS COUNTRYSIDE INN, RECENTLY UNVEILED IN ROSENDALE, NEW YORK, THE LAMPLIGHT JUNIOR SUITE FEATURES A BOX BED DRESSED IN A QUILT AND PILLOWS FROM THE LODGING'S NAMESAKE LINE.

The banal minimalism of contemporary Pinterest boards has no place in Barrow’s Green. All throughout this fictional hamlet, edges err on the side of ruffled, patterns tend toward the whimsical and dense, and Tyrolean touches abound, the ills and anxieties of modern life blissfully receding against a tableau of folk arts and crafts. And though it may not be a real place—born instead from the imagination of Audrey Gelman—it is a real mindset, one now writ large at The Six Bells Countryside Inn, opening this month in New York’s Hudson Valley.

IN THE ENTRANCE LOUNGE, A CEILING MURAL DEPICTS BARROW'S GREEN, THE FICTIONAL VILLAGE OF FOUNDER AUDREY GELMAN'S IMAGINATION.