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Oct 13, 2009

The Study of Elegance: Joe Nye

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By Donna Sapolin Los Angeles interior designer Joe Nye doesn’t hew to a single stylistic credo; instead, he lets his clients’ needs inspire a host of unique solutions. Yet, there is one quality that all his projects hold in common and that is their sense of graciousness. Raised in a Kearney, Nebraska household where the use [...] (more...)

Sep 29, 2009

Objects of Desire: Laura Kirar

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By Donna Sapolin Laura Kirar exits a status meeting, shuts the door to her office, and settles into a comfy chair. At the helm of two design businesses-TRU Design devoted to residential and commercial interiors, and LKDL Miami, dedicated to licensing and products-she’s got a lot on her plate. Yet you’d be hard-pressed to know just [...] (more...)

Aug 11, 2009

California Classic: Kathryn Waltzer

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By Donna Sapolin When a mid-west couple decided to move west, they purchased a 5,500-square-foot English Tudor house in Pacific Palisades and then turned to Los Angeles designer Kathryn Waltzer to lend it a more down-to-earth outlook, one suited to a casual lifestyle that revolves around the needs of a brood of three pre-teen boys. The [...] (more...)

Jul 28, 2009

Glamour Wars: Jamie Drake

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By Donna Sapolin . Interior designer Jamie Drake hops off the curb to flag a New York City cab and answers my call. The urban din—bustling crowds, honking horns and screeching brakes—could rattle even the most inveterate multi-tasker, but Drake manages to calmly and deliberately articulate his design vision while dashing from one pressing errand to the [...] (more...)

Jul 14, 2009

Vive Le Luxe: Helene Aumont

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By Donna Sapolin Sitting astride one of the Dutch Friesian horses she owns, Helene Aumont trots through the vineyards near her ranch in Santa Ynez, California. It is early in the morning and she is taking some personal time before heading into the bustling office of her eponymous furniture design business, the Helene Aumont Collection, where [...] (more...)

Jul 7, 2009

The Ring Master: Katherine North

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By Donna Sapolin Few designers point to the circus as a key source of inspiration. But San Francisco-based designer Katherine North is quick to identify this extravaganza of color and international showmanship as one that wields a significant impact on her design perspective. Her great great uncles were the Ringling Bros., her father owns and operates [...] (more...)

Jun 23, 2009

The Dramatist: Jean de Merry

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by Donna Sapolin Jean de Merry is a storyteller. Lyrical words were once his medium but now it is new Art Deco-inspired furnishings that spark the imaginations of onlookers with unspoken sagas about people and homes and both the quotidian and glamorous (more...)

Jun 16, 2009

Practicality Perfected: Palmer Weiss

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By Donna Sapolin San-Francisco-based interior designer Palmer Weiss grew up in Charleston, South Carolina where furnishings passed down over several generations often stand alongside aged collections and newly purchased items, filling homes with an air of unstudied charm. Weiss is no stranger to the painstaking efforts designers take to achieve an eclectic, years-in-the-making look and to [...] (more...)

Jun 12, 2009

Mid-Century Modern

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Describing a style that reigned from about 1933 to 1965, Mid-Century Modern built upon the foundation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s principles of organic architecture and the simple forms that characterized the International Style and Bauhaus movements. (more...)

Jun 11, 2009

Hollywood Regency

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The Hollywood Regency style was characterized by high glamour and glitz and emerged through the work of interior designers, such as Dorothy Draper, Elsie de Wolfe, and William (Billy) Haines, who decorated the homes of film luminaries in Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s. (more...)

Jun 9, 2009

Bon Vivant: Mattaliano

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By Donna Sapolin Decorati conducted an exclusive Interview with Cassandra Flandermeyer, Vice President of Development of world renown furniture manufacturer Mattaliano. Keep reading to get a sneak peak of Mattaliano’s newest products that will be featured at this year’s Neocon World’s Trade Fair at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, June 15-17th. SHOP THIS PHOTO How did Mattaliano [...] (more...)

Jun 2, 2009

Here Comes the Sun: John Barman

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By Donna Sapolin Interior designer John Barman and Woody Allen have something in common. Apart from a home base in Manhattan, a high level of creative intelligence, and the glowing admiration of others for their prodigious talents, each has an acute understanding of the challenges that face visionaries and a forward-looking perspective. In Woody Allen’s latest [...] (more...)

Apr 21, 2009

Life, Luxury, and Luminocity: Rosemary Hallgarten

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Apr 14, 2009

The Architecture of Cloth: Twill Textiles

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By Donna Sapolin Suzanne Lovell, the owner of Chicago-based Suzanne Lovell Interiors and co-owner with hand-weaver Sam Kasten of Twill Textiles, is staring at a leaf she found this morning while walking her standard poodle, Lamb. Lovell studies its shape and veining along with the hallmarks of autumn’s arrival-blazing frog belly green and eggplant hues. “These [...] (more...)

Apr 7, 2009

The Style Makers: Tocar

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Mar 23, 2009

Neoclassical

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By Donna Sapolin In the second half of the 18th century, attention to the ruins of Andrea Palladio structures in Rome and Athens along with architectural discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii prompted a Greco-Roman style revival in the furniture of France and England. The style contrasted with and reacted against the (more...)

Mar 3, 2009

Shane Shines

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Feb 24, 2009

Thomas Jayne: A Calming Sense of Age

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By Donna Sapolin When New York-based interior designer Thomas Jayne speaks it is with erudition and civility—two qualities on which he places a great deal of emphasis but, which, in times of slipshod manners and diminished historical awareness, might be regarded as throwbacks to another era. However, much like the environments he shapes, his values and [...] (more...)

Feb 17, 2009

Hide and Seek: Kyle Bunting Rugs

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Feb 10, 2009

The Curator: Glenn Gissler

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Feb 3, 2009

Jay Jeffers: Style Infiltrator

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Jan 27, 2009

Name Recognition: Scott Arthur Yerkey

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Featuring the Sutherland 2-Drawer Chest and Nightstand and Goldman Bench. Photograph by Bob Maurer Photography. (more...)

Jan 20, 2009

Maya Romanoff: Revolution in the Air

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Jan 13, 2009

The Pursuit of Perfection: Powell & Bonnell

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Featuring the Avenue Dining Chair, Halo Chandelier, Kudu Chair, Mirage Table, Ricochet Mirror, Strata Side Table. (more...)

Jan 6, 2009

Studies in Balance: White Webb Finds Elegant Equilibrium

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Dec 30, 2008

Familiar Ground: Kathryn Scott

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Written by Donna Sapolin Few would take issue with the notion that an interior designer should develop a deep familiarity with the space he or she is hired to design for a client. One could even make the point that the more familiar the designer is with the space, the more readily he or she can [...] (more...)

Dec 22, 2008

The Editor: Joseph Noble

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Special Advertising Section A well-known interior designer shuffles through a box of Joseph Noble samples-high-tech and woven fabrics that catch the light in a way that exposes titillating color combinations and nuanced patterns. An expression of pure pleasure washes over the designer’s face: “I always know what I’m going to get here, what the quality and [...] (more...)