DesignNJ-FebMar 2024-Digital Issue

ARCHITECTURE AND THE QUEST FOR A COMFORTABLE, INVITING ATMOSPHERE
INFLUENCE THE DESIGN OF THE KITCHEN AND KEEPING ROOM AT THREE FIELDS
WRITTEN BY REN MILLER
PHOTOS BY MIKE VAN TASSELL
KITCHEN DESIGN BY ROBIN MITILENES
CABINETRY BY DEAN ZISA
KEEPING ROOM DESIGN BY SUSAN FARCY, ASID
Steeply pitched tile roofs with arched dormers,
wood casement windows with shutters, and
French doors that open to terraces are among
the architectural highlights of Three Fields, the site
of the 2023 Mansion in May Showhouse & Gardens
in the Borough of Mendham.
The showhouse was presented by the Women’s
Association for Morristown Medical Center
(WAMMC) and raised funds to expand and
modernize the Gagnon Institute of Bioskills Training
and Innovation at MMC. At the conclusion of the
showhouse, the WAMMC announced the monthlong
event had exceeded its goal and raised $1.65
million. Mansion in May is WAMMC’s signature
fundraiser. Since the first showhouse in 1974, the
event has generated more than $13 million for
Morristown Medical Center.
Three Fields was designed by New York architect
Greville Rickard and built between 1928 and 1930
for Benjamin Duncan Mosser and his wife, the
former Florence Willets Mosford, and has passed
through several owners since then. It sits on almost
36 acres featuring formal gardens, pools and pastoral
fields beyond. The architecture of the home itself
is rustic yet formal, more manor than modest, and
is filled with rooms that gave designers a chance to
showcase their best work. Here we highlight two
adjacent rooms that look right at home in the French
manor architecture.
A mix of materials and colors of nature creates a comfortably
sophisticated ambience in the kitchen and keeping room at
Three Fields.
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