Just back from the opening of DecoDence – an ultra fab exhibition showcasing Mario Pulice’s unparalleled ocean liner related collection at the South Street Seaport Museum. A perfect antidote to the economy-over-comfort trend in current day travel, the show gives a rare glimpse of some of the actual objects and fine French furnishings that one [...]
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Our Post President’s Day Post
Just coming off the President’s day Holiday weekend, I’m reminded of my intent to decorate the Obama White House. Not sure why this has not come about, but I’m having a grand time fantasizing! One cannot help but wax a bit nostalgic about the Kennedy era, when, with the help of Stephane Boudin of Maison [...]
Art at the Lever House
Lever House, the modern architectural master piece of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s Gordon Bunshaft, was one of the first International style glass curtain wall skyscrapers to be built on Park Avenue.
In the late nineties a massive renovation restored the Lever’s spectacular structure to its original sexy splendor, and since then the ground floor and courtyard [...]
Palm Beach Prelude
WIJW at large! – We’ve begun our Palm Beach coverage here, bright and early and a little bleary eyed, at the historic Chesterfield Hotel – a hardy English style breakfast poolside soon found us rejuvenated and ready to hit some of our favorite Palm Beach locals before heading to our main attraction, the American International [...]
Resources Rule
I love creating something that clients never dreamed possible (or possibly never knew they wanted)! – The challenge is to produce a cohesive statement that reflects the tastes of the the clients – creating an environment that not only soothes and comforts but elates and inspires the spirit.
An indispensable part of being a successful designer [...]
Claremont
It’s no secret that I’m a bit of an Anglophile – and I think it often comes through in the interiors I create.
Claremont is a historic London based textile firm that has been in operation for almost eighty years. Several years ago, while I was still working with Parish Hadley, Claremont’s New York outpost introduced [...]
