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Photography: Kelly Marshall

Fifth Avenue

Family Home by Jeremiah Brent Design in New York, NY

There’s the old saying, taken from the 1940 Thomas Wolfe novel of the same title that “you can’t go home again.” But diving into the latest chapter of Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent’s search for where to put down roots, one is inspired to learn that while returning home may be incredibly difficult to pull off, it’s not impossible. Nevertheless, when it was all over, returning to a home they’d already loved was a different emotional experience from any of their prior moves. “It was like a wave of relief,” says Brent. Together they’ve embraced the opportunity to create a new space that represents how they’ve evolved as a family. Berkus says he and Brent have “found our own style together. It’s a blend of his modernity and rule breaking, with my sort of traditionalism and crazy auction-house encyclopedic furniture history that lives in my brain.”

One new treasure is a Carlo Bugatti chair Berkus gifted Brent for his birthday last year. In the kitchen, subway tile was removed from the walls, the formerly black cabinetry has been lightened to white, and the butcher block on the countertops and the brass wrapping the island have been replaced with Calacatta Paonazzo marble. And while the public rooms are bathed in creamy neutrals that allow the architectural details and furniture to star, the bedrooms each feature bold wallpapers that cocoon their inhabitants.

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