BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE JUNE 2019

Mention Newport, Rhode Island, and visions of Gilded Age mansions and preppy yacht clubs may follow. Designer Desiree Burns doesn’t think that way. When she and her husband found a summer place outside the touristy downtown, she looked forward, not back. “It’s modern glam for the beach,” says Desiree Burns, who spent six years in Los Angeles as a jewelry designer before moving back East and into interior design.