DREAM TEAM

For one lucky family, design stars Jeremiah Brent and Athena Calderone paired up to craft a chic beach retreat in Rhode Island

- CATHERINE HONG

For interior design fanboys and fangirls, the idea that someone could somehow hire both Jeremiah Brent and Athena Calderone to design their house is an exercise in daydreaming. With his reputation for creating elegantly soulful interiors, AD100 talent Brent is as in-demand as celebrity designers get-and that was true even before he became the newest cast member of Netflix's Queer Eye. As for Calderone, the domestic goddess and Instagram star whose Brooklyn town house launched precisely one zillion copycat renos, well, she doesn't even take on interior design clients. (Her one client being, basically, herself.) In other words, getting Brent and Calderone to team up on a house is like drafting Ronald Acuña Jr. and Shohei Ohtani on the same baseball team-the stuff of fantasy decorating leagues.

And yet in this case, a husband and wife with a deep love of design somehow really did score the Brent/Calderone dream team. And they say they owe it all to their affection for a single material: plaster.