A broad-minded yet discriminating sensibility runs through the work of Daniel Romualdez, scion of a Filipino political dynasty whose first project, completed while he was still a student at Yale, was assisting in the renovation of his parents’ Stanford White house on Long Island. A prime illustration of the architect-designer’s approach is his own Connecticut residence (once owned by Bill Blass), an 18th-century former tavern that boasts a decor encompassing both Victorian taxidermy and a Giovanni Battista Tiepolo drawing. Though it might sound helter-skelter, the retreat, like all Romualdez projects, is an exquisitely calibrated balance of rarefied atmosphere and practical solutions. “I consider myself a problem solver,” says the low-key Manhattan-based maven, who worked for Thierry Despont and Robert A.M. Stern before opening his firm in 1993. Since then Romualdez has created homes for Tory Burch,Daphne Guinness, and Aerin Lauder—luxuriously idiosyncratic environments linked only by their supreme level of quality.212-989-8429
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