IN PURSUIT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY

A DESIGN STUDIO WITH UNPARALLELED ACCESS TO EUROPEAN ANTIQUES, DESIGNERS, AND MAKERS IS OPENING AN EXPERIENTIAL SHOWROOM.

Denver-based interior designer Susan Weiss spent years scouring European antique markets, galleries, and showrooms to find authentic, rare, and storied pieces for her international clientele. In 2021, she joined forces with renowned Swedish antiques dealer Daniel Larsson, who is based in Höganäs, Sweden, and considered to be the foremost authority on Baroque, Rococo, Gustavian, and Empire-period Swedish furniture and decorative arts. Their company, Emerson Bailey, quickly established itself to discerning clients in the U.S. as the purveyors of extraordinary European antique furniture and objects as well as new contemporary design brands.

This spring, Weiss and Larsson will bring their collection and curation to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Although they’ve not yet found the perfect location, Emerson Bailey’s new showroom will be a destination and include a gallery, event space, and even a handful of Emerson Bailey properties, where people can stay in one of the team’s exquisitely curated spaces. “Susan and I have the same passion. We are entrenched in rarities, the sophistication of environments and design, and how to offer the experience of beautiful things that people have never before witnessed or shared space with,” says Larsson. “In the E | B properties, people will be immersed in the types of experiences we’re privileged to create. We can’t wait to introduce that to a community that understands the grandeur of the natural world and appreciates beauty.” At an E | B residence, you’re likely to spend the night with pieces that have intricate stories.

We curate opportunities for those who want something that no one else has and who want to know the story behind it.
— Susan Weiss, interior designer

E | B recently acquired an 18th-century Rococo buffet from Lars Sjöberg, an art historian, former curator (for 36 years) of 18th-century furnishings at Stockholm’s National Museum of Antiquities, and writer. Larsson’s and Weiss’s extensive relationships with European antiques experts, gallery owners, and dealers result in Emerson Bailey having exclusive access to coveted pieces and collections.

But Emerson Bailey doesn’t only look to the past. The firm sources contemporary pieces from rugs to ironwork, ceramics, and lighting. It imports beautiful and enduring brass sinks and plumbing fixtures from TONI Copenhagen, Denmark’s oldest manufacturer of kitchen and bathroom fixtures. “One or two antiques can add modernity and depth to a contemporary space,” Larsson says.

While all different, Emerson Bailey’s antiques and contemporary pieces share several qualities: timelessness, rareness, and legitimacy. “We curate opportunities for those who want something that no one else has and who want to know the story behind it,” Weiss says. “New and old, our objects simply have to be the best, special, and rare. They become sculptural art, not just furniture, and they bring depth and soul to a space.”