Designer Profile

Oct 27, 2009

The Buzz on David Phoenix

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By Buzz Kaplan, Decorati Contributing Antiques Editor and author of The Buzz on Antiques. I met David Phoenix in 2002 when he was already at the top of his game in the Los Angeles high-end design market… Back then, I went to LA to see him because many of my designer clients told me “He’d be a [...] (more...)

Oct 20, 2009

Designing Happiness: Luke Vahle

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Decorati took some time out of Fifth Season Design owner Luke Vahle’s busy day to learn how this New York designer seeks to nourish the souls of his clients through bold, thought-provoking design that positively impacts both the residents and the planet. (more...)

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...)

Oct 6, 2009

The Buzz on James Lumsden: Back to the Classics

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By Buzz Kaplan, Decorati Contributing Antiques Editor and author of The Buzz on Antiques. The morning I interviewed Los Angeles design icon, Jim Lumsden, I forgot to eat breakfast and had low blood sugar. So when I arrived at his gorgeous home and office in the Hollywood Hills, I was feeling a bit woozy. When I arrived, [...] (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...)

Sep 22, 2009

Style Voyages: Arthur Dunnam

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Read Decorati’s exclusive tête-à-tête with Arthur Dunnam, design director of Jed Johnson Associates. How did you become interested in interior design? I was always interested in anything having to do with the arts: drawing, painting, sculpture. As a boy growing up in a small town in North Louisiana (an area not known for its architectural marvels!), I was [...] (more...)

Sep 15, 2009

The Buzz on Martyn Lawrence-Bullard

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By Buzz Kaplan, Decorati Contributing Antiques Editor and author of The Buzz on Antiques. If Che Guevara had a love child with Rupert Everett and that adorable baby became a top L.A. designer, his name would be Martyn Lawrence-Bullard. You know how when you’re in high school, you get voted as “Most Likely to Succeed” or “Best [...] (more...)

Sep 8, 2009

The Tailored Home: Janie Hirsch

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Keep reading Decorati’s exclusive interview with Janie Hirsch to learn about how this award-winning Atlanta designer developed a childhood thirst for design, loves all things French, and is embracing the internet to expand her knowledge of the design world. What was your inspiration for the Westbrook residence? The exterior of this home had a slight Italian influence, [...] (more...)

Aug 25, 2009

The Collected Interior: The Buzz on Suzanne Kasler

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Check out Decorati’s Contributing Antiques Editor, Buzz Kaplan’s, tête-à-tête with top Atlanta designer Suzanne Kasler. Photography by Frances Janisch. SEE SUSAN’S PORTFOLIO ON DECORATI Describe your design style in five words or less. Inspired. What are three most important elements of sophisticated design? Scale, proportion, and attention to detail. Your interiors are so strikingly different and new. Where do you [...] (more...)

Aug 18, 2009

Cinderella Ellsley: Romancing the Range

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By Karin Edwards .A Connecticut kitchen by Ellsley uses French flourish to soften the all-American dream of one roomy space that transitions easily from cooking to relaxing hangout, or formal entertaining. . Cinderella has nothing on Beverly Ellsley. Take one look at the centuries-old French parquet flooring that tops a kitchen island of her making and it’s obvious [...] (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...)

Aug 4, 2009

Classical Redux: Mick de Giulio

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By Karin Edwards . There’s a hole in the floor of the 14th Century fortress in Verona, Italy that mid-20th century designer Carlo Scarpa rescued from false, fantastical Victorian renovations into a museum of uncommon architectural integrity. Peer inside the hole, as Mick de Giulio did, and you’ll spy centuries of construction layers. Return to the art [...] (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 21, 2009

Fusion Kitchens: Troy Adams

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By Karin Edwards . Fusion menus delight with a blend of Eastern flavors and Continental cuisine. It takes more than a few far-reaching ingredients, however, to create a fusion kitchen in the mind of designer Troy Adams. Yes, his kitchens juxtapose exotic natural materials including basalt, lava stone, bamboo and cork with machined stainless steel. But the [...] (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 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 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...)

May 12, 2009

The Decor Impresario: Alan Tanksley

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By Donna Sapolin New York-based designer Alan Tanksley is directing a photo shoot of the interiors he recently completed for a 19th-century townhouse located in Manhattan’s West Village. Today, he is playing the role of Cecil B. DeMille, but if he has an alter ego it is more likely the imagined inhabitant of a library room [...] (more...)

May 5, 2009

Small Space, Big Style: Darren Henault

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By Donna Sapolin Darren Henault is rolling on the floor with his eight-month-old girl twins, Bunny and Lulu. Belly giggles punctuate his descriptions of the Manhattan apartment he recently designed for Eric Dahl, the owner of Sandringham Ltd.—the company that does all his custom upholstery. As if caring for a pair of babies isn’t enough of [...] (more...)

Apr 7, 2009

The Style Makers: Tocar

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Mar 31, 2009

Approachable Serenity: James Rixner

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Mar 17, 2009

The Country House: Edward Lobrano

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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 10, 2009

The Curator: Glenn Gissler

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Feb 3, 2009

Jay Jeffers: Style Infiltrator

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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...)