Design Diary: John Derian’s Provincetown House

Photos of John Derian‘s Provincetown cottage were published by Vogue Living a while back, as well as Martha Stewart Living. This week the Boston Globe featured it too. I still haven’t been into his shop, which is right behind the house, but I’ll try to go this weekend and take some photos. I’m off to the Cape for the rest of the summer in the morning!

John Derian lounges against antique grain sack pillows on his porch. The swathe of red on the right are two14-foot vintage Chinese life saving boat oars.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

The shingled home is a restored 1789 sea captain’s house on Commercial Street in Provincetown’s West End. The Greek Revival columns were added in the early 19th century.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

The white sofa is Derian’s “Geranium,” a design inspired by Hepplewhite-style antiques of the late 16th century. (Locally, Lekker in the South End carries Derian’s line of upholstered pieces.)  The worn pedestal table holds a Chinese lacquered box, a trough filled with carpet balls, and a stone lamp from France. The duo of framed birds above the sofa are ink drawings.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

In the cozy kitchen, a 19th-century round butcher block table is used as extra counter space. The fixture hanging above is a Robert Ogden mirror shade made by Mennonites in Pennsylvania. The 19th-century sofa is covered in antique grain sacks.

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Photo: Vogue Living

A tattered chair and a stump sea made from a 19th-century beam. The print on the large pillow echoes that of the wallpaper.

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Photo: Vogue Living

The living room has its original wallpaper and a paint-splattered wood floor.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

The front bedroom, which is in the original part of the house, has a 19th century canopy bed. A 19th century Dutch seascape hangs above a marble-topped 19th century French cafe table. A Hugo Guinness drawing of a geranium hangs next to the fireplace over a French side chair.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

A guest room with a French iron bed covered in a 19th-century homespun sheet from Transylvania; a red Jeanette Farrier pillow adds color. A vintage insect chart, a style we’ve seen a lot of lately, leans against the wall next to the sink. The gold-painted empire mirror is from 1830.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

Left: An 18th-century chest holds a 19th-century French lantern bottle covered in fabric and a Boston School painting; , a Federal mirror hangs above.  Right: A Hugo Guinness linocut ‘‘Chrysanthemum’’ drawing hangs above an early 19th-century Amish dry sink, on which an enormous clam shell and a 19th-century candle holder rest.

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Photo: Julia Cumes for the Boston Globe

British-born artist Peter Gee‘s palette makes for great art. Gee owned and taught at the Hawthorne School of Art in Ptown before he died in 2005. (His work looks amazing . . . look for an ARTmonday post devoted to Gee later this summer.)

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