InBrooklyn,aCoupleWithOpposingTastesStrikeaBalanceInBrooklyn,aCoupleWithOpposingTastesStrikeaBalance

In Brooklyn, a Couple With Opposing Tastes Strike a Balance

 Followingaperiodofeditingandrediscovery,austerityandabundance—andawiderangeofobjets—livesidebysideinthisBedford-Stuyvesantapartment.Followingaperiodofeditingandrediscovery,austerityandabundance—andawiderangeofobjets—livesidebysideinthisBedford-Stuyvesantapartment.
Following a period of editing and rediscovery, austerity and abundance — and a wide range of objets — live side by side in this Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment.
Last year, the pair launched an online store, SpeakLow, offering everything from 1950s Japanese silver demitasse spoons to the palm-size woodland dioramas that Brown crafts from moss, tree bark and hand-carved clay mushrooms.
The couple’s opposing aesthetics are most clearly on display in the bedroom: The wall behind the black upholstered platform bed is covered almost entirely with nudes in different mediums, a patchwork of both Brown’s collection of midcentury academic sketches.
While Brown has learned to let go of certain belongings, Pham increasingly sees the value in having possessions.
That’s always been my dream, or perhaps how I solved crises in the past,” he says.