TWO OF A KIND Partners in the Boston design firm GauthierStacy open their homes for a side-by-side tour. TEXT BY STACY KUNSTEL • PHOTOGRAPHY BY LAURA MOSS • INTERIOR DESIGN: JIM GAUTHIER AND SUSAN STACY, GAUTHIER-STACY • ARCHITECT FOR JIM GAUTHIER: DOUG DOLEZAL • PRODUCED BY KYLE HOEPNER
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ou would think that two people who can finish one another’s thoughts and intuit each other’s design decisions, who attended the same college and have worked together for more than a decade and a half, might share similar approaches to living—especially given that they reside a few floors from one another in the same South End apartment building. • Not so for Jim Gauthier and Susan Stacy, partners in the Boston interior design firm Gauthier-Stacy. While the two have fashioned enough spaces together to fill volumes of home magazines, their own places put their differences on display as soon as you walk in their front doors. • Those who know them can see immediately that the
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