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More Classic America...
Speaking of Classic America, I hope you'll join me tomorrow night for an ICAA-sponsored lecture on classical architecture, which will be presented by Birmingham-based architect James Carter.The details...
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A Fantasy of a Flower Room
I don't mind black and white photography, but there are times when I find it maddening. Take, for the example, the photos of this gem of a flower room, which was painted in trompe l'oeil. How can one...
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Old World Weavers
A recent windfall of late Seventies issues of Architectural Digest and Southern Accents provided me with another windfall: a clutch of Old World Weavers advertisements. As you know, Old World Weavers,...
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Modern Meets Traditional
Variations on a modern theme. That's how a 1940 issue of House & Garden described the Sutton Place apartment, seen here, of socialite Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin. Decorated by Virginia Conner, who was...
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House Tour: The New York House of Benjamin Garber and William Kennedy
What to do when your work schedule is so hectic that it leaves you little time to prepare a blog post? You scramble to find photos of a house so attractive that you don't have to devote much time to...
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Give Me The Night
One reason why I fancy 1970s-era issues of Architectural Digest is because each issue usually featured at least one decorated-for-night apartment. Often bijou in size and typically located in...
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studio B Collection
Design centers around the country are currently hosting Fall Market events including ADAC, whose multi-day Discover ADAC event is always highly anticipated and very well-attended. One of the many...
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Veranda: The Romance of Flowers
"The Amen! of Nature is always a flower." So said Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose inspired quotation is just one of many that appear in Clinton Smith's charming new book, Veranda: The Romance of Flowers....
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Transcending Time
Last week, Christie's Paris held a sale that featured the contents of an apartment overlooking the Seine. Lots included work by Jean-Michel Frank, Paul Dupré-Lafon, and Marc du Plantier, the kind of...
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Southeastern Horticultural Society Visionaires of Design Awards
If you live in the Atlanta area and have an interest in design, then by all means purchase your tickets to the Southeastern Horticultural Society's 2015 Visionaries of Design Awards, which will be held...
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Rooms for Living
Rooms for living...isn't that the desired outcome of decorating? And yet, how often do we see rooms that don't feel or look very livable? It seems appropriate, then, that Suzanne Rheinstein, a...
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Fabric Debuts
Leaving 1958 behind and moving forward to 2015...I want to call your attention to two new fabric collections, both of which were designed by friends. The first is by Steve McKenzie, who, along with...
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Organized Entertaining
As many of you know, I covet my decades-old design magazines for their articles about now-obscure designers. (That's not to say that I don't enjoy finding articles about Draper, de Wolfe, and others...
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A Reminder
If you have not yet purchased your tickets to next week's Visionaries of Design Awards, consider doing so today. They are going quickly!For more information or to order tickets, please visit...
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A Dinner for Nicky Haslam
I'm feeling miserly because I only gave you two photos for the Blass post, so I thought I would show you another example of a lovely outdoor space, one which was set for a party.A few weeks ago, I...
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The Penthouse Terrace of Bill Blass
What a treat for me to find these 1974 Architectural Digest photos of Bill Blass's penthouse terrace...and what a disappointment to find that only two photos were featured. That's surprising, really,...
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High-Rise Elegance
There is so much I want to say about this Chicago high-rise apartment, which was photographed for Architectural Digest in 1978. First, it was decorated by Bruce Gregga, whose work I have long admired....
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On the Newsstands This Month...
I have two published articles out on the newsstands this month, both about designers whom I greatly admire.For the December issue of flower, I had the opportunity to write about Alex Papachristidis and...
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Fall Book Releases
With October slipping away, I realized that the only way to review the fall book releases in a timely fashion was to present them in one fell swoop. So, without further ado....Life/Style: Elegant...
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An Ode to Argo
The latest addition to my design wish-list? That would be Soane's entire Argo collection, with which I'm obsessed. Inspired by a 1940s French brass-rope table, the collection, which is made of brass...
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