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A broad-minded yet discriminating sensibility runs through the work of Daniel Romualdez, scion of a Filipino political dynasty whose first project, completed while he was still a student at Yale, was assisting in the renovation of his parents’ Stanford White house on Long Island. A prime illustration of the architect-designer’s approach is his own Connecticut residence (once owned by Bill Blass), an 18th-century former tavern that boasts a decor encompassing both Victorian taxidermy and a Giovanni Battista Tiepolo drawing. Though it might sound helter-skelter, the retreat, like all Romualdez projects, is an exquisitely calibrated balance of rarefied atmosphere and practical solutions. “I consider myself a problem solver,” says the low-key Manhattan-based maven, who worked for Thierry Despont and Robert A.M. Stern before opening his firm in 1993. Since then Romualdez has created homes for Tory Burch, Daphne Guinness , and Aerin Lauder—luxuriously idiosyncratic environments linked only by their supreme level of quality. 212-989-8429

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