A Willy Guhl chair perches poolside behind Marcel Breuer’s 1951 Stillman House, which Ed Tang (left) and John Auerbach acquired several years ago as a weekend getaway in Litchfield, Connecticut. Soon after, they bought the neighboring 1953 Huvelle House, designed by John Johansen, and have since created an art-filled compound where they recently established an artist residency program.

The interiors of the Stillman House were outfitted in consultation with Axel and Boris Vervoordt, whose firm designed the living room’s sofa, rug, and low table, which are grouped with a Pierre Jeanneret bench (used as a cocktail table) and armchairs; a large Cassi Namoda canvas occupies one wall, while an Austin Eddy painting hangs on the Marcel Breuer bookshelves, which feature Charlotte Perriand sconces along the top and display ceramics and objects from the couple’s collection. 

A side view of the Stillman House.

A large Danh Vo work overlooks the open staircase.

Colored panels enliven the back of the Stillman House.

In the artist residency studio, an Umar Rashid painting presides over a seating area with a Marcel Breuer cocktail table and chairs joined by Lena Henke steel-mesh side tables; a Campana Brothers cabinet in synthetic raffia stands next to a floor lamp by XYZ Design from Pearl Lam Galleries. 

The home’s dining alcove, furnished with a Pierre Chapo table and Pierre Jeanneret chairs, features a circular painting by Rachel Eulena Williams. 

Auerbach and Tang commissioned a Lee Ufan sculpture for the front garden of the Huvelle House. 

A sofa and cocktail table by BDDW stand atop a Tuareg mat rug in the home’s living room, where artworks by (from left) Elizabeth Glaessner, Cecily Brown, and Vojtěch Kovařík hang on the far wall; the table lamps are by Anouska Hempel, and the floor sculpture is by Yu Ji. 

In the office, a small Doron Langberg painting is mounted above an antique Buddha sculpture next to the 1950s Edward Wormley desk and midcentury armchair.

In the Huvelle’s library, a work by Susumu Kamijo hangs near a BDDW armchair, a Charlotte Perriand stool, and an India Mahdavi rattan table.

A slatted screen shades the deck overlooking the pool.

An Anouska Hempel light fixture is installed above the Huvelle House dining area’s BDDW chairs and table, which is topped by a vase made by Marcel Breuer’s nephew Guy Wolff.

Artworks in the Stillman House’s primary bedroom include a Robin F. Williams pastel over the bed, which has Anouska Hempel lamps on either side. 

A Max Lamb table and chairs and a Tajh Rust canvas inside the Stillman House in Connecticut.