TWO IF BY Sea

ON NANTUCKET, INTERIOR DESIGNER MEG BRAFF AND ARCHITECT GERARD BEEKMAN REJOIN A PAIR OF WATERFRONT TOWN HOUSES TO ITS RIGHTFUL WHOLE: A WARM, RICHLY DECORATED SANCTUARY KEEPING WATCH OVER THE ATLANTIC.

- ALISA CARROLL

Seating for a crowd wraps a custom coffee table covered in Holly Hunt leather. A framed custom wallpaper panel (Gracie) depicts Nantucket Harbor. OPPOSITE: A fringed canopy (Business & Pleasure Co.) shades a Summer Classics table.

THE NANTUCKET HOUSE sits between harbor and horizon like a living work of American folk art—land, sea, and sky expressed in a few strokes of primary color. The quintessentially New England shingle-style structure had suffered some design scars from previous renovations, including one that divided it into two identical town houses.

Enter interior designer Meg Braff, the creator of vivaciously classic interiors from Southampton to Sea Island, who was commissioned by the new owners to undertake its revival. A master of color, designer of fabrics and wallcoverings, and purveyor of antiques through her namesake shops in New York and Florida, Braff brought her confident palette and keen sense of place to help rediscover its soul.