At Home on Fairfield Beach

A runner handwoven by women from Uzbekistan brings softness to the entry staircase; the glam factor comes from a set of handblown glass light fixtures suspended from slender thirty-foot-long strands of wire.

A turquoise vellum-clad buffet from Julian Chichester makes a bold statement in the dining room, while the Apparatus light fixture dangles like loose jewelry above a custom walnut table surrounded by caned chairs with angular backs that resemble sails.

Designers Meghan De Maria and Courtney Yanni incorporated wood accents and furnishings that, along with veined marble, add movement and soften the crisp white kitchen cabinetry, tile, and walls.

Nano glass that reflects the brass framework of the kitchen shelves tops one of the two islands. Colors from the hallway’s Phillip Jeffries wallpaper inspired the blue leather seats on the stools.

Anne Collier’s Are You Out of Your Mind, a whimsical painting of an audio cassette with a beach scene on the label, hangs in the living room.

The fireplace’s blue-gray marble surround corresponds with the cushions on a pair of jute-backed chairs; the glass table rests on a trio of white-oak balls.

The owners’ affinity for green is most strikingly realized in the family room with its complementary wall art curated by Betsy Biscone Art Advisory.

The artwork above the bed in the primary bedroom is by Dave Muller; Betsy Biscone Art Advisory commissioned it through Blum & Poe gallery.

The designers were tasked with taking the edge off a starkly modern primary bath, so they added pale lavender wallpaper and a plush, slightly freeform vanity bench.

The Palm Beach Room welcomes guests to a tropical top-floor sanctuary.

The caned chairs on the back deck echo the chairs in the adjacent dining room, while the base of the stormproof concrete table resembles the walls of a seaside bathing pavilion.

A “golden thread” is an element that is present in all parts of a whole; it pulls everything together. For Moss Design’s Courtney Yanni and Meghan De Maria, gold itself was part of the throughline they used to weave the design of a Fairfield beach house with a dash of bling.

Repeat clients, a family of five, tasked Moss Design with reinterpreting “New England coastal design with a little New Jersey flair,” as a nod to the wife’s Garden State heritage, says De Maria.

Not Jersey Shore, mind you: the saltwater taffy on the table in the foyer is as close to Seaside Heights as the home gets. Rather, the overall design blends texture and a strategic use of coastal colors (including blue hues matching those in the Phillip Jeffries Flight wallpaper in the main hallway) with some Atlantic City glam.

“The beach is their backyard, but the owners didn’t want a beach-bungalow vibe,” says De Maria. Instead, copious use of marble and glass adds a veneer of sophistication and elegance to spaces with stand-out organic elements like the dining room’s decorative wood ceiling beams, the kitchen’s white-oak-trimmed range hood and pendants suspended from saddle-leather straps, and the living room’s jute-backed chairs.

Gold tones, meanwhile, make mostly understated appearances throughout the home, particularly in the kitchen where Moss Design added brass-framed glassware shelves to complement the wine storage that dominates an entire wall. Sink fixtures and cabinet hardware, likewise, have a brassy sheen. Even some natural elements, like a tripod table in the primary bath, get a little pizazz. The team applied a gilded veneer to the table’s three legs that otherwise resemble tree branches.

Unique forms also unify the design. The hourglass-shaped backs on the kitchen counter stools are echoed in the turquoise buffet table in the dining room, a signature piece that captures the colors of the abundantly visible seascape outside. (Here, too, you’ll find brass trim tracing the buffet’s Rubenesque curves.)

Interior design: Moss Design