Based near San Miguel de Allende, the outfit became known worldwide for its one-of-a-kind pieces. Cris Briger had formerly parlayed her strong aesthetic eye into a to-the-trade furniture and accessories company with her late husband, Paul.
Tableware, artwork, and furniture designed by the family and then crafted by skilled artisans from the company’s workshops in Mexico and West Palm Beach include colorful hand-painted Talavera ceramics and sprawling framed papier-mâché botanicals, both of which the family refers to as “our version of Mexico.” The family’s connection to the country runs deep. The pieces have to breathe, and they have to connect with the things around them.” “I could stuff this place full, but then Casa Gusto would just be another furniture shop. “We’re putting home design in a different light,” says Peed of the evolving scenes. Another set piece pays homage to the legendary horticulturist Bunny Mellon and her storied Virginia garden room, with touches from Cris Briger including floor-to-ceiling wall panels, blooming florals and greenery, and a rotating collection of furnishings. In one scene, admirers might see how a remastered baroque wooden console could interact with a white-petaled tole orchid or pansy just manufactured by Mexican artists. The team then arranges those pieces in gorgeous tableaux that allow the imagination to take flight.
“We wanted to reimagine them for today’s audience.” “We’d normally find these prints at a place like our grandma’s house,” Pablo says. Gusto Brocante, the garden room that nods to Bunny Mellon, with dinnerware and tole flowers.įounded in 2018, Casa Gusto inspires design lovers with a fanciful showroom filled with discoveries-from furnishings to tableware-updated with a coat of Briger-Peed whimsy, or “gusto.” The trio transforms, for instance, botanical engravings by the early nineteenth-century English illustrator and engraver George Brookshaw-perhaps now considered old-fashioned-with frames and mats painted in a pattern that elevates them to theater.
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