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A Long Island Treehouse That’s Pure Fantasy

October 7, 2025
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A Long Island Treehouse That’s Pure Fantasy
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Last year, when the interior designer Muriel Brandolini, 65, was visiting the Southampton, N.Y., home of some clients, her eye was drawn to the treehouse that the couple had recently built for their five young grandchildren. The two-story building consisted of a nearly 60-square-foot room supported by four pillars, with the lower level open to the elements. The staircase that led to its second floor had simple white ropes for railings, and the structure, like the property’s main residence, was clad in cedar shake shingles. Immaculate if uninspired, it looked more like a landscaping shed than a children’s playhouse. Brandolini, who says her most enjoyable projects have included designing children’s bedrooms and play spaces, asked the grandparents if she could try revamping the treehouse.

She found inspiration in the fantastical jungle scenes painted by Henri Rousseau between the 1890s and the turn of the 20th century. (Those pictures were themselves the result of imagined adventures, and regular visits to Paris’s Jardin des Plantes, as the artist never left France.) Rather than painting the structure one solid color, which Brandolini thought would be “too heavy” for its setting — beneath a giant gnarled elm tree and surrounded by hydrangeas — the designer worked with the artist Lukas Koszegi Andres to develop and apply a green camouflage pattern that would more closely connect the treehouse to the foliage. She enclosed the lower level with retractable mesh curtains, which would allow sunlight and breezes to pass through, printed in the same camouflage.

The fabric’s perforations made it the ideal canvas for embroidery, too. On a trip with her husband to Chennai, India, in 2019, Brandolini visited Vastrakala, the workshop co-founded by the embroiderer Jean-François Lesage, the artistic director of Lesage Intérieurs, whose family established Maison Lesage in 1924 (it was acquired by Chanel in 2002). She commissioned the atelier to help her adorn the ao dai — a traditional Vietnamese tunic — that she wore to her son’s wedding last October. For the treehouse renovation, Brandolini wondered if such intricate embroideries could withstand outdoor exposure. Lesage was up for the challenge and came back to her with a series of drawings resembling Rousseau’s wild landscapes, including scenes of gibbons hanging from branches and a panda eating bamboo. Vastrakala then rendered the designs in vibrant weatherproof plastic beads.

Brandolini also worked with the New Jersey-based studio Couture for Homes on a number of elements for the project. For the upgraded staircase railings, six different ropes — among them ones used on boats and for rappelling — were hand-knotted into macramé and placed at different heights, so children of varying ages could all have something to grab. Brandolini bought a menagerie of plastic animal figurines such as alligators, anteaters and macaws and affixed them to the rope railings with multicolored carabiners. Fedora Design created washable rugs for both levels of the treehouse. Shaped like splatters of paint, the rugs were inspired by Brandolini’s visit to the former studio of Jackson Pollock in the nearby hamlet of Springs. Finally, Brandolini persuaded Rio Kobayashi, a London-based designer and woodworker, to make his first easel, out of ash wood, for the upstairs space. “Everything is a source of ideas,” she says. “When you allow a child to live like that, they can only dream.”

Jameson Montgomery is a fashion assistant at T Magazine.

The post A Long Island Treehouse That’s Pure Fantasy appeared first on New York Times.

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