When it came time to appoint the interiors, which Paola imagined as “warm, inviting, full of light…with elements of London and Europe” (she had a pattern-wrapped David Hicks room and the Bloomsbury vibes at Charleston house on the mind), it was a no-brainer to assign the job to their friends Charlotte Rey and Duncan Campbell, of the UK-based firm Campbell-Rey.
It was their first home together as newlyweds, for starters ( they were married in Ibiza in 2021), and it’s where they would welcome their son, Massimo. The place held a certain significance for Paola and Aram. “The layout, the moldings, the fireplace it felt like fate.” “It reminded me of my childhood home,” she remembers. She was looking for something that felt familiar, “old-school New York,” as she calls it, and when she first laid eyes on the apartment, she knew it was the one. The senior advisor at Schwartzman& had lived in London for almost a decade when she and her husband, Aram, made the call to return to the city-even the neighborhood-where she grew up. “It was a homecoming!” Paola Saracino Fendi recalls gleefully of her young family’s move into this pre-war apartment on New York’s Upper East Side.
