This Quiet Painter's Cottage Is a Brimming with Flowers and Flea-Market Finds

In the main room, a 1st century a.d. Roman leg sits on an iron table from a French flea market; the Louis XVI armchairs are from Philippe Vichot in Paris. Jakob did the drawing next to the daybed, another flea-market find.

Swedish dining chairs from Dienst & Dotter surround a Jakob-made table; the painting is by Jakob’s friend Mary Heilmann.

One of Jakob’s drawings rests on the mantel in a sitting area; the wall piece is by Robert Rauschenberg and the side table is by Marcel Breuer.

The bedroom in the “tower” addition, completed in 1986, includes an antique four-poster and an oil stick painting by Jakob.

The artist made the room’s work table; the cupboard is a find from upstate New York.

Furnishings in the guest room/library include a bed from a Paris flea market, a chair bought at Sotheby’s, and a Moroccan rug; the custom table is by Gary Anderson.

The sun-flooded master bath in the tower addition features a soaking tub and a pedestal sink.

Jakob’s collection of mixing bowls and pottery covers two tables in the kitchen; the pendant lamp is from Moss.

Antique funerary objects from Peru and a yellow peony from Jakob’s garden.

Artist and landscape designer Robert Jakob, photographed in the double hornbeam hedge on his four-acre property in Springs.