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A Little Bit Country
The Cotswolds meet Connecticut in designer Becca Casey’s retail and lifestyle site Ayr Barns. by MARNI ELYSE KATZ
Becca Casey’s friends teased her when she and her husband up and moved out of Brooklyn before a baby was even on the radar. “We just didn’t feel like city folk,” says the designer, who is now mom to a one-and-a-half-year-old son and two dogs. That said, she did a good impression. Before landing in Wilton by way of Greenwich, Casey was a loft dweller who worked for New York City's Jenny Wolf Interiors, a follow-up act to her entry position at Robert Passal Interior Design. After college, Casey says she looked for work in New York and L.A., but the deal was sealed when Robert Passal responded to her resume “in a New York minute.” Now, the designer, who established her Norwalk-based firm, Becca Interiors, in 2016, is channeling her childhood with a new venture. In July, she launched Ayr Barns, a retail-and-lifestyle site that reflects her upbringing in the
ABOVE: The Seville Rattan Vase’s ample opening makes it easy to arrange an oversized display of branches; that's Ayr Barns founder Becca Casey wearing the Lottie Sun Hat. RIGHT: Candlelight is always a good idea. This sturdy glass votive holder does double duty outdoors or on your desk as a container for loose change and paperclips.
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