Doug Meyer, known for colorful murals, sculptures, and ceramic-paintings, designed a second home in the Hudson Valley that rejects local Federal and Jeffersonian restraint. After a friend objected to conservative plans, Meyer tore up his designs and restarted. The completed three-story, 2,200-square-foot house—called Wyldlands—draws on Niki de Saint Phalle and Antoni Gaudí, translated through Meyer's acid colors and playful motifs. Interior details include plaster, wood, and resin wall panels encrusted with plexiglass and semiprecious stones, a lime-green patent vinyl sofa, a kitchen clad in irregular plexiglass mosaic panels, and a pink powder room diorama.
In the living room, wall panels composed of plaster, wood, and resin are encrusted with ­plexiglass and semiprecious stones. The sofa is ­upholstered in lime-green patent vinyl. "I couldn't have it in some traditional mode," Meyer says. "It's kind of what I do, taking something and changing it out to where it makes sense to me." The kitchen is ­covered in irregular-size plexiglass mosaic ­panels, like the inside of a disco ball, and the ­powder room is a pink diorama.
The result is a three-story, 2,200-square-foot ­playground the likes of which Hudson has never seen. Meyer borrowed liberally from Niki de Saint Phalle's Tarot ­Garden in Italy and the fantastical work of Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, but it's all done with his ­signature acid colors and Fraggle Rock flourishes. In fact, the house is called Wyldlands after a 2021 exhibit of ­Meyer's at Daniel Cooney Fine Art.
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