Metropolitan Home

Metropolitan Home of the Month. 18th and 19th century American folk art fits right into the newly opened spaces of a modern house.

At first, David Guilmet and Patrick Bell refused to see the property. Having searched two years for an 18th century farmhouse to renovate, what could they find to love in something so angular, so intolerant of ornament, so white as a 1931 Bauhaus-style home?