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"Inner Directed\nModern Pieces Bring a Former Barn into the 21st Century\n\"They are modernists who have ended up living in old structures,\" designer Russell Groves says of longtime clients\u2014a hedge-fund manager and his wife, parents of three-year-old twin daughters\u2014who asked him to reimagine the interiors of a 19th-century barn that had been moved from Canada to Connecticut and subsequently converted into a 15-room house.\n\"We chose modern pieces that had a sense of warmth, a tactile quality,\" says Groves, whose challenge was \"to find a way to bring a breath of modernism\" to the rustic spaces. Idelle Weber's Across the Meadow, left, and Jardin de Paris, an 1897 poster by Jules Ch\u00E9ret, hang in the living room. Sofa fabric, Robert Allen. Stool fabric from Dedar.\nThe kitchen's modern appliances contrast with the barn's original wood beams, posts and flooring. \"What we did here, basically, was revise what we found,\" says Groves. \"We used zinc and marble countertops. They're materials that get better with time.\"\nInterior Designer S. Russell Groves.\n\"There was a lot of texture already present here,\" the designer says of the dining room. \"So we chose a very simple table and chairs\u2014wood themselves, in order to relate to the surroundings\u2014and a customized chandelier.\" The flagstone fireplace dominates the space.\n\"In town, we live in a house in Brooklyn Heights,\" says the husband. \"In the country, we wanted a more open plan, with lots of light and a relaxed atmosphere. Russell understood how we wanted to use and live in the house better than we did ourselves.\"\n\nA Noguchi floor lamp and side table are next to a pair of woven-leather chairs in a seating area in the guesthouse.\nThe custom walnut four-poster in the master bedroom was designed by Groves. A Bakelite-and-chrome side table is flanked by a pair of rocking chairs, which he produced in collaboration with Connecticut-based furniture maker Ian Ingersoll. Groves's plan was \"to make the house comfortable for the family and also take the design up in quality several notches.\"\nGroves also laid out the landscaping around the pool. The architecture of the barn \"relates to the landscape and the surrounding structures,\" says the husband, but the interiors \"make it a modern house with the charm, feeling and materials of something that's older.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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