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‘The Collected Home,’ a ‘Lifestyle Shop’ Opens in Rowayton
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Risa King began hunting for architectural pieces for her New Canaan home — a unique ca. 1921-built ranch house on Brushy Ridge Road that had been part of a larger estate — straightaway after purchasing it six years ago. She also traveled to antique markets, craft fairs, estate sales and auctions to find pieces that felt right for its roughly 4,500 square feet of living space. King, a mother of eight with a historian’s sensibility, keen eye for detail and budding entrepreneurship researched the home extensively — it once belonged to a New York City publisher and Agatha Christie sat in her living room — and lived at times in a RV parked out front while the house underwent renovations. King said that when she renovates a home, “I don’t want to strip it of all it’s character.”
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— This article originally was published by NewCanaanite.com.