Article: The new classics: J. Crew designer Jenna Lyons Mazeau masters the perfect mix of down-to-earth luxury in her restored Brooklyn brownstone.

Jenna Lyons Mazeau points to the rack of baby bottles that sits on her otherwise immaculate cast-concrete kitchen countertop. "This is the trauma of my life," she says in mock dismay. The ground floor of her eclectically appointed five-story Park Slope home is disrupted by various other plastic tot toys. But from the way her eyes light up at the sight of her one-year-old son, Beckett, it's clear she's willing to sacrifice a bit of her well-defined aesthetic for a few baby bits here and there. And, frankly, it just adds to the wonderful mix of the Mazeau house, where Mazeau, 39, creative director at J. Crew, resides with her artist husband, Vincent Mazeau, and Beckett, who ...

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