Greydon House — Nantucket, USA

Greydon House — Nantucket, USA
(Image credit: Greydon house)

Not to be indelicate, but Nantucket is a town notorious for its resistance to any tampering of its elegant clapboard and shingles silhouette. All the more reason to applaud the work by the New York-based designers Roman and Williams on the handsome mid-19th-century Greek Revival building in the town centre.

The former home of a local doctor has emerged from an extraordinary, yet respectful, makeover into a 20-room hotel. Whether the reception or the panelled library, every room is dressed in a rich palette of colours and textures, layered with a palimpsest of Nantucket’s history as a whaling centre alongside Native American ceramics, Dutch doors, Caucasian rugs, flame-stich prints, and hand-painted Portuguese tiles.

The bedrooms, especially, are cosy cocoons of blues and whites, offset by timber floors, plank walled bathrooms and polished brass, and white-trimmed sash windows that look out onto a garden blooming with herbs, sea roses, dense bushes of horsetail, and wisteria. 

Greydon House — Nantucket, USA

(Image credit: Greydon house)

Greydon House — Nantucket, USA

(Image credit: Greydon house)

Greydon House — Nantucket, USA

(Image credit: Greydon house)

Greydon House — Nantucket, USA

(Image credit: Greydon house)

Greydon House — Nantucket, USA

(Image credit: Greydon house)

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Daven Wu is the Singapore Editor at Wallpaper*. A former corporate lawyer, he has been covering Singapore and the neighbouring South-East Asian region since 1999, writing extensively about architecture, design, and travel for both the magazine and website. He is also the City Editor for the Phaidon Wallpaper* City Guide to Singapore.