Palette shopping? How about an afternoon at your local museum.... On a recent visit to Washington DC, I enjoyed an afternoon at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, visiting one of my favorite paintings, The People of Chilmark by Thomas Hart Benton. [...]
Archive for the ‘Furniture’ Category
October 12th, 2010 - 10:28 am § in Furniture
The Chair – Classic Furniture from Antiquity to Modern Day
I have always had a fetish for chairs, well designed chairs that is. When I was at Ringling School of Art and Design we had to draw one hundred chairs, design a chair and create a three dimensional model of our design. That assignment left me with a [...]
Interior Decorating with Flea Market Finds
One of my favorite things to do whether I am three thousand miles across the ocean or two blocks from my home is flea market shop. Great satisfaction comes from waking on a sunny, crisp Saturday morning, [...]
The Powder Room
The powder room is generally a small space with a lot of possibility. I really enjoy designing a powder room. This is is place to make a luxurious presentation and offers a gesture of gracious hospitality. Because they are usually small, you can make them spectacular, packing in quite a design pun[...]
June 26th, 2010 - 7:53 pm § in Architecture, Color, Draperies, Floors, Furniture, Layouts, Lighting, Walls
Balancing Act
You don't have to be a professional designer to know if a room projects the qualities of balance and harmony. You can feel it intuitively. People naturally enjoy balance and harmony, it is comfortable[...]
Top 10 Decorating Essentials
Decorating essentials, the seeds from which your own design will grow.[...]