Shop Talk

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspired by "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y43U1k4G-0" target="_blank">Labels or Love</a>" by Fergie and "<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/series/mr-selfridge/" target="_blank">Mr. Selfridge</a>" on PBS . . .</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLHBV5QvC1L7yA4EHXbso17BvCZz2a6H9GlJx0cNVKTJ3EjQo-OiflQaafLCX3kPJHkY89tbniYR8KGEaiBOaWisA6rD489byce7GFbrE4TQfsEj-XRnTo2sCdMPJ-8rnur1s9629dbM/s1600/0QilKvUnYjFx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmLHBV5QvC1L7yA4EHXbso17BvCZz2a6H9GlJx0cNVKTJ3EjQo-OiflQaafLCX3kPJHkY89tbniYR8KGEaiBOaWisA6rD489byce7GFbrE4TQfsEj-XRnTo2sCdMPJ-8rnur1s9629dbM/s1600/0QilKvUnYjFx.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "A gallery of raw-canvas chairs becomes an impressive display for handbags, shoes, and other accessories."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.lonny.com/See+It+Now/articles/VgCIh2YnFhd/Reed+Krakoff+New+SoHo+Flagship" target="_blank">Reed Krakoff's New SoHo Flagship</a>" by Jennifer Fernandez.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lonny.com/" target="_blank">Lonny</a> (February 26, 2015).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWTXPfQRKy0uLPsxDrVeg37ruolIrMC3cAFLM-3KArN_-rIhQhlmLfUXcSLw8-1x33QUj1EAs3eRwwlv4Mz-1Ow_zyHpAtBtfEyxMWt732giG63-QIISo-ltoCpgNeeJsZxp3kMriAwk/s1600/cn_image_0.size.chanel-boston-boutique-peter-marino-01-exterior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWTXPfQRKy0uLPsxDrVeg37ruolIrMC3cAFLM-3KArN_-rIhQhlmLfUXcSLw8-1x33QUj1EAs3eRwwlv4Mz-1Ow_zyHpAtBtfEyxMWt732giG63-QIISo-ltoCpgNeeJsZxp3kMriAwk/s1600/cn_image_0.size.chanel-boston-boutique-peter-marino-01-exterior.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Chanel’s new Boston store, crafted by architect Peter Marino."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Peter Marino.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Paul Warchol.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Raul Barreneche.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/shop/2014-03/peter-marino-chanel-boston-boutique" target="_blank">Peter Marino Designs Chanel's Sophisticated New Boston Flagship</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (March 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWy-xnfkg9ErBBkCJBAcwOQtwN9TkjYLNYht66Do9dR4CeTZm9xqvHkymHa2sGVHXXSnwJoe708wJFK4ELE9B8RML40dCo8TzAHJm7oFl8KM7gtLQEJFYTm8NNrK2U4id3dSAWlQa0Gk/s1600/cn_image_1.size.chanel-boston-boutique-peter-marino-02-interior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWy-xnfkg9ErBBkCJBAcwOQtwN9TkjYLNYht66Do9dR4CeTZm9xqvHkymHa2sGVHXXSnwJoe708wJFK4ELE9B8RML40dCo8TzAHJm7oFl8KM7gtLQEJFYTm8NNrK2U4id3dSAWlQa0Gk/s1600/cn_image_1.size.chanel-boston-boutique-peter-marino-02-interior.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Chanel’s new Boston store, crafted by architect Peter Marino. The boutique features references to Coco Chanel’s famed Paris apartment, including a sofa styled after the fashion designer’s own, standing in front of a Nancy Lorenz folding screen."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Peter Marino.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Paul Warchol.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Raul Barreneche.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/shop/2014-03/peter-marino-chanel-boston-boutique" target="_blank">Peter Marino Designs Chanel's Sophisticated New Boston Flagship</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (March 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRrexhrk_Q-cO_bKouJ4FuehRdJQDzV33dfA7dWVVEGmH0E3SGyAUne2kHeM0mOtclRWpAdSmS8Hx3jAASHKplD7LEGJrWfRD0gYontSkOQmZuP03N9sDmrTUhMpx61UERv5YnjGUCGw/s1600/cn_image.size.chanel-boston-boutique-peter-marino-04-interior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRrexhrk_Q-cO_bKouJ4FuehRdJQDzV33dfA7dWVVEGmH0E3SGyAUne2kHeM0mOtclRWpAdSmS8Hx3jAASHKplD7LEGJrWfRD0gYontSkOQmZuP03N9sDmrTUhMpx61UERv5YnjGUCGw/s1600/cn_image.size.chanel-boston-boutique-peter-marino-04-interior.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Chanel’s new Boston store, crafted by architect Peter Marino. A display case is paired with a polished-bronze sculpture by Antoine Poncet.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Peter Marino.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Paul Warchol.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Raul Barreneche.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/shop/2014-03/peter-marino-chanel-boston-boutique" target="_blank">Peter Marino Designs Chanel's Sophisticated New Boston Flagship</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (March 2014).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDpXcHNd9Reu_4GcizMcH41rJOCYiFTGJHMDEf0fhsHHYlFSdaxMyj7ORjeUHfCu7r8cG7NuLsP2rIJPPDOHQ9cPMWE7RMJQW3pr_wwfIAEHM-lSMJy-U2LKZmm2YNbDwh9eixgrtgzw/s1600/cn_image.size.harry-winston-shanghai-store-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDpXcHNd9Reu_4GcizMcH41rJOCYiFTGJHMDEf0fhsHHYlFSdaxMyj7ORjeUHfCu7r8cG7NuLsP2rIJPPDOHQ9cPMWE7RMJQW3pr_wwfIAEHM-lSMJy-U2LKZmm2YNbDwh9eixgrtgzw/s1600/cn_image.size.harry-winston-shanghai-store-02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Views of the soaring atrium from the ground level and above."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harry Winston’s new boutique on Tai Cang Road in Shanghai.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect/Interior designer: William Sofield.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Andrew Rowat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Mitchell Owens.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2012/06/harry-winston-shanghai-boutique-william-sofield" target="_blank">Harry Winston's Shanghai Boutique</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daily AD</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (July 9, 2012).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGdcL-UtqtMwZWyA7dsBzbm2lwrU6DErrqrKvMcktdJArYNlIbfEQYghNS8c5N0cYbQGnrmL-e0ucEa8EWUPxgcIWd9axorRoDxLoIT8l6qHXsahr2Lpo89oimbSPpCA9TxdxPXbMEFF4/s1600/cn_image_2.size.harry-winston-shanghai-store-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGdcL-UtqtMwZWyA7dsBzbm2lwrU6DErrqrKvMcktdJArYNlIbfEQYghNS8c5N0cYbQGnrmL-e0ucEa8EWUPxgcIWd9axorRoDxLoIT8l6qHXsahr2Lpo89oimbSPpCA9TxdxPXbMEFF4/s1600/cn_image_2.size.harry-winston-shanghai-store-04.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The top-level skylit space."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harry Winston’s new boutique on Tai Cang Road in Shanghai.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect/Interior designer: William Sofield.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Andrew Rowat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Mitchell Owens.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2012/06/harry-winston-shanghai-boutique-william-sofield" target="_blank">Harry Winston's Shanghai Boutique</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daily AD</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (July 9, 2012).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCa6ExxpCMxt2X_7a5tTtAnkqkY0SCJ_MNxXV1r9rm6A5OucEjvpSlRd7KkcFgyckJ1nCqORwNA_FvCuax6qx5hNNNwpaH0HrSLKORNvzfdz-ELkUI5wPk_tmltqpaOLs2cAA3pJ-fwnw/s1600/cn_image.size.rh-west-hollywood-03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCa6ExxpCMxt2X_7a5tTtAnkqkY0SCJ_MNxXV1r9rm6A5OucEjvpSlRd7KkcFgyckJ1nCqORwNA_FvCuax6qx5hNNNwpaH0HrSLKORNvzfdz-ELkUI5wPk_tmltqpaOLs2cAA3pJ-fwnw/s1600/cn_image.size.rh-west-hollywood-03.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A view through the arched hallways of the new space - RH West Hollywood, the Gallery on Melrose Avenue</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography courtesy of <a href="https://www.restorationhardware.com/" target="_blank">RH</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Mayer Rus.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2014/11/new-rh-west-hollywood" target="_blank">Step Inside RH’S New West Hollywood Location</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (November 13, 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPosWR4tbYUUaWKR6y-inj81lNHj-FtdC7ZdyZYigv7u8-ZUI8i19cDjvggP4-CWMWelJ8-WBGGhIO0EfYWFxgxil8vbm05xhrtcuQBtyI4EUCUGVfxHOZ9j2RZmS4N2DhuNvq9bT2_E/s1600/cn_image.size.tomas-maier-new-york-boutique-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLPosWR4tbYUUaWKR6y-inj81lNHj-FtdC7ZdyZYigv7u8-ZUI8i19cDjvggP4-CWMWelJ8-WBGGhIO0EfYWFxgxil8vbm05xhrtcuQBtyI4EUCUGVfxHOZ9j2RZmS4N2DhuNvq9bT2_E/s1600/cn_image.size.tomas-maier-new-york-boutique-02.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> "F<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ashion designer Tomas Maier's first Manhattan boutique—an extraordinary, 4,000-square-foot space encompassing two levels of a 19th-century Upper East Side townhouse"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Samuel Cochran.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2014/10/tomas-maier-store-new-york-city" target="_blank">An Exclusive Look Inside Tomas Maier's First New York Boutique</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (October 17, 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6oWWKTyDdRVK6CORUdKYsB1nZdKK-mMrU5gb4s1I7orRNsyDYuuBMi28LOnY7Shb0BPmC4hlu8rwjJ3Y7Gx7p7gtN93iPmCFRZDARE6sVUb3k20JpvdeKtH-IPaCtZFF0wOb9kPzTvxE/s1600/cn_image.size.van-cleef-and-arpels-manhattan-01-boutique-interior+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6oWWKTyDdRVK6CORUdKYsB1nZdKK-mMrU5gb4s1I7orRNsyDYuuBMi28LOnY7Shb0BPmC4hlu8rwjJ3Y7Gx7p7gtN93iPmCFRZDARE6sVUb3k20JpvdeKtH-IPaCtZFF0wOb9kPzTvxE/s1600/cn_image.size.van-cleef-and-arpels-manhattan-01-boutique-interior+(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The double-height entrance gallery at Van Cleef and Arpels’s newly renovated Fifth Avenue boutique."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku of Jouin Manku Studio.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Joshua McHugh.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Brad Goldfarb.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/shop/2014-03/van-cleef-and-arpels-manhattan-boutique-renovation" target="_blank">Van Cleef and Arpels Gets a Glittering New Manhattan Boutique</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (March 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVuof1YVpCGqFOZLD-KLiwTkXPZhb7Y8I1yDXArAW7GiixRm5u-abPslSYmZVHkX_vTtvRvGlnpceOdIoSRH_ytSzopIz95U92F1MlTvAKqOdYYRNu0aGG7xdN_hfzybNFpyhjEp8Biog/s1600/cn_image_0.size.van-cleef-and-arpels-manhattan-02-04-jewelry-viewing-salon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVuof1YVpCGqFOZLD-KLiwTkXPZhb7Y8I1yDXArAW7GiixRm5u-abPslSYmZVHkX_vTtvRvGlnpceOdIoSRH_ytSzopIz95U92F1MlTvAKqOdYYRNu0aGG7xdN_hfzybNFpyhjEp8Biog/s1600/cn_image_0.size.van-cleef-and-arpels-manhattan-02-04-jewelry-viewing-salon.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A ground-floor viewing salon, left, and an antique white-gold-and-diamond necklace."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Van Cleef and Arpels’s newly renovated Fifth Avenue boutique.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku of Jouin Manku Studio.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Joshua McHugh.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Brad Goldfarb.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/shop/2014-03/van-cleef-and-arpels-manhattan-boutique-renovation" target="_blank">Van Cleef and Arpels Gets a Glittering New Manhattan Boutique</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (March 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLP42VqktdZ_rhTtJiM_qlH8tzkwYiFfUsKkwClITJUQyOK3_9NAjdOlStVRnbf7k0kzatSSVDz4brFyy6kB4JixOY2dEhK2y2Y1o-O4_KvOfBosycXK7WDHX5MVEiK4ZhFmjizDnhw34/s1600/cn_image_0.size.faberge-02-new-york-flagship-boutique.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLP42VqktdZ_rhTtJiM_qlH8tzkwYiFfUsKkwClITJUQyOK3_9NAjdOlStVRnbf7k0kzatSSVDz4brFyy6kB4JixOY2dEhK2y2Y1o-O4_KvOfBosycXK7WDHX5MVEiK4ZhFmjizDnhw34/s1600/cn_image_0.size.faberge-02-new-york-flagship-boutique.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Display cases in Fabergé’s new boutique </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on New York’s Upper East Side. "The 850-square-foot Madison Avenue space is the first American location for the firm, which was founded in Russia in the mid-19th century and shut down in the wake of the 1917 Revolution." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography courtesy of Fabergé.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Ellie Somerville McNevin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2012/07/faberge-store-new-york-upper-east-side" target="_blank">Recapturing the Luster</a>" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (July 16, 2012).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimnJdOfjJpjrnqWaaTOT-uO5zWpzQafCyPBtuv3USMh0eMZAAapRQRf40ssrA4bNim6x1BUF0O-jm89LBQ0UHIwrIPSfElVSLesjRwl-DPNpyxoML05VdILYZa_Tix76vQBCTX-YcKD04/s1600/cn_image_1.size.faberge-01-new-york-flagship-boutique.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimnJdOfjJpjrnqWaaTOT-uO5zWpzQafCyPBtuv3USMh0eMZAAapRQRf40ssrA4bNim6x1BUF0O-jm89LBQ0UHIwrIPSfElVSLesjRwl-DPNpyxoML05VdILYZa_Tix76vQBCTX-YcKD04/s1600/cn_image_1.size.faberge-01-new-york-flagship-boutique.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The viewing area in Fabergé’s new boutique </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on New York’s Upper East Side. The 850-square-foot Madison Avenue space is the first American location for the firm, which was founded in Russia in the mid-19th century and shut down in the wake of the 1917 Revolution." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography courtesy of Fabergé.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Ellie Somerville McNevin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2012/07/faberge-store-new-york-upper-east-side" target="_blank">Recapturing the Luster</a>" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (July 16, 2012).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuuHFwGPVn8YoPIfFtlj4IEsj7WEgUWKVz8tTk5yyCvk0yw0LjKwdu5w28qc3Hj3nCsvfWh65mW4QQPlHwSJBlDWLhomsBM6CvxKbGitNt4xRHjCab9aHRSeW41dILrENaSYtCFmxCw4/s1600/cn_image_3.size.louis-vuitton-paris-boutique-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuuHFwGPVn8YoPIfFtlj4IEsj7WEgUWKVz8tTk5yyCvk0yw0LjKwdu5w28qc3Hj3nCsvfWh65mW4QQPlHwSJBlDWLhomsBM6CvxKbGitNt4xRHjCab9aHRSeW41dILrENaSYtCFmxCw4/s1600/cn_image_3.size.louis-vuitton-paris-boutique-02.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Handbags on display in backlit alcoves.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Branching off Paris’s famed Champs-Élysées, Avenue Montaigne is home to some of the finest luxury brands in the world, including a celebrated Louis Vuitton store. On December 15, the company unveiled the results of a redesign and expansion of the boutique, which has been devised by architect Peter Marino to resemble a sophisticated modern apartment. The new interior has a neutral palette of beiges and browns, punctuated by blush and coral accents."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Peter Marino.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Grégoire Vieille and courtesy of Louis Vuitton.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Stefanie Waldek. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/01/louis-vuitton-avenue-montaigne" target="_blank">Peter Marino Updates the Louis Vuitton Boutique on Avenue Montaigne in Paris</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January 9, 2015).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1L4sHSinr6RbTnQ8DreqDBXD7tAnlSN0-I9EdFfJVnLRtNRk2WgFsvWNQw_JD_kLAn16F5lSF3Ep0JVR8RqFc9g8zNJFjWoJVlJkwcWgHNWqcVsyq5lSbG1gkocqZ4zSr_ubK6qCwyXs/s1600/cn_image_1.size.louis-vuitton-paris-boutique-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1L4sHSinr6RbTnQ8DreqDBXD7tAnlSN0-I9EdFfJVnLRtNRk2WgFsvWNQw_JD_kLAn16F5lSF3Ep0JVR8RqFc9g8zNJFjWoJVlJkwcWgHNWqcVsyq5lSbG1gkocqZ4zSr_ubK6qCwyXs/s1600/cn_image_1.size.louis-vuitton-paris-boutique-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "A seating area in the Peter Marino–designed Louis Vuitton boutique."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Peter Marino.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Grégoire Vieille and courtesy of Louis Vuitton.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Stefanie Waldek. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/01/louis-vuitton-avenue-montaigne" target="_blank">Peter Marino Updates the Louis Vuitton Boutique on Avenue Montaigne in Paris</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January 9, 2015).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivYYuQ9k0Sn776V-tPeuGq-zmC-7vspjwMiUeA6QCJfp8FNIy_cwTES-mKnAd6FeNu5rUTDV0wto9CiyZkv1l6kSPDGOBHz7cXlfce128D1_7zCp1QKAzX0ZGLy3xWS7IMxHLBpBJxGxY/s1600/ddbfb56a1c30b4f634a9ec4192433077.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivYYuQ9k0Sn776V-tPeuGq-zmC-7vspjwMiUeA6QCJfp8FNIy_cwTES-mKnAd6FeNu5rUTDV0wto9CiyZkv1l6kSPDGOBHz7cXlfce128D1_7zCp1QKAzX0ZGLy3xWS7IMxHLBpBJxGxY/s1600/ddbfb56a1c30b4f634a9ec4192433077.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Trompe l'oeil paneling and tassel tiebacks in the private fitting-room suite are a nod to 17th-century French salons." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Daniel Romualdez. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography Joshua McHugh. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by David Colman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/celebrity-homes/2013/lauren-santo-domingo-moda-operandi-new-york-offices-daniel-romualdez-slideshow_slideshow_item4_5" target="_blank">Moda Operandi's Manhattan Office</a>"  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (September 2013).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmA7oWdihCtqazaMmLMefn-_a4qmHozs7AKM8MwQ5HPVZ2O-3Fg_R4E4AbazMek076gbBvEAjruGutk-Q1HdqZadPXhOEYgOo7RswYgrvg_qd_HkHszzRpXr32sPEb9STG3CKSHN8w4KU/s1600/cn_image_1.size.mary-mcdonald-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmA7oWdihCtqazaMmLMefn-_a4qmHozs7AKM8MwQ5HPVZ2O-3Fg_R4E4AbazMek076gbBvEAjruGutk-Q1HdqZadPXhOEYgOo7RswYgrvg_qd_HkHszzRpXr32sPEb9STG3CKSHN8w4KU/s1600/cn_image_1.size.mary-mcdonald-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A watercolor rendering of Romona Keveza’s new bridal and ready-to-wear Manhattan showroom, designed by Mary McDonald."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rendering courtesy of Mita Corsini Bland.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Hannah Martin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2014/10/romona-keveza-salon-mary-mcdonald" target="_blank">Mary McDonald Designs a Chic New Fashion Showroom in New York City</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (October 10, 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxB7peLlNnBOYGK3GNkCSU8OY0e8oGJXcWBHI1ASdSh0vYEBE8rsYb1bbzZeq_G4R-8ZaLxBjSKdkgiIvEpPKNyAaJWm47O1EqCQfseDYJFKaG4S2AQtuB2ZsaKNuk0JVHzNkmdO8E7YQ/s1600/cn_image_3.size.mary-mcdonald-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxB7peLlNnBOYGK3GNkCSU8OY0e8oGJXcWBHI1ASdSh0vYEBE8rsYb1bbzZeq_G4R-8ZaLxBjSKdkgiIvEpPKNyAaJWm47O1EqCQfseDYJFKaG4S2AQtuB2ZsaKNuk0JVHzNkmdO8E7YQ/s1600/cn_image_3.size.mary-mcdonald-02.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A watercolor rendering of Romona Keveza’s new bridal and ready-to-wear Manhattan showroom, designed by Mary McDonald."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rendering courtesy of Mita Corsini Bland.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Hannah Martin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2014/10/romona-keveza-salon-mary-mcdonald" target="_blank">Mary McDonald Designs a Chic New Fashion Showroom in New York City</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (October 10, 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZKY4SjJ6p_xOlOKkN5ICW9tJt86wei3rY7FGpupaylnE5G0ae8rZnyLSq7baLT-D4g-i_rDw2sfyOEbbyZf2V6j0ptP1WkZOwasywG3wICaV040-4CsnFL9FbpUS4DoAntP8ddj2sWE/s1600/cn_image_3.size.jimmy-choo-rodeo-drive-02-boutique-interior-shoe-lounge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZKY4SjJ6p_xOlOKkN5ICW9tJt86wei3rY7FGpupaylnE5G0ae8rZnyLSq7baLT-D4g-i_rDw2sfyOEbbyZf2V6j0ptP1WkZOwasywG3wICaV040-4CsnFL9FbpUS4DoAntP8ddj2sWE/s1600/cn_image_3.size.jimmy-choo-rodeo-drive-02-boutique-interior-shoe-lounge.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "The store’s design includes mohair upholstery and gold-accented display fixtures."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Jimmy Choo boutique on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by Jimmy Choo creative director Sandra Choi in collaboration with London-based David Collins Studio.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Jimmy Cohrssen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Mayer Rus.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2014/05/jimmy-choo-rodeo-drive-boutique" target="_blank">Jimmy Choo Opens a Glamorous Rodeo Drive Boutique</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (May 14, 2014).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hCeDUeK2gEQo0CFmdXjBC4FZDAQiIikHmEiqTpmoCFhtTYfY1bT8gReY0oREHdXq1IWMvk6wDjzF2kcEJ8YiJWI4hwOcqX_8YAj99-OuG58D2g7cn90ydgBFc02ldDkMvkyJwlTuujY/s1600/cn_image_0.size.jimmy-choo-rodeo-drive-04-boutique-entrance-area.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hCeDUeK2gEQo0CFmdXjBC4FZDAQiIikHmEiqTpmoCFhtTYfY1bT8gReY0oREHdXq1IWMvk6wDjzF2kcEJ8YiJWI4hwOcqX_8YAj99-OuG58D2g7cn90ydgBFc02ldDkMvkyJwlTuujY/s1600/cn_image_0.size.jimmy-choo-rodeo-drive-04-boutique-entrance-area.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The store’s ceiling is crowned by a chandelier made of gold-leafed metal frames and rock crystals."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Jimmy Choo boutique on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by Jimmy Choo creative director Sandra Choi in collaboration with London-based David Collins Studio.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Jimmy Cohrssen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Mayer Rus.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2014/05/jimmy-choo-rodeo-drive-boutique" target="_blank">Jimmy Choo Opens a Glamorous Rodeo Drive Boutique</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (May 14, 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiLx6FjsJDtdpL8CY6QuGdjOSNyxInyQEmiofKudUT1jCKrNuk4zjrW_Tcmo02_m0yE8sbQW-nN4HeNi933Bf2MNbk2r-Ao5E3dSXjOQ3p_ertIARz193Xi8KIcMd7K-Skb-50mgG-sE/s1600/cn_image_3.size.harry-winston-amfar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiLx6FjsJDtdpL8CY6QuGdjOSNyxInyQEmiofKudUT1jCKrNuk4zjrW_Tcmo02_m0yE8sbQW-nN4HeNi933Bf2MNbk2r-Ao5E3dSXjOQ3p_ertIARz193Xi8KIcMd7K-Skb-50mgG-sE/s1600/cn_image_3.size.harry-winston-amfar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Harry Winston’s New York City flagship. The jeweler recently announced a three-year partnership with amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography courtesy of Harry Winston.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Hadley Keller.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/01/harry-winston-amfar-partnership" target="_blank">Harry Winston Announces Partnership With amfAR</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January 23, 2015).</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgapR72K98q2W3V96g9uaFpggTLkBLwdjwNdJwg-EuJrEbZL2jXElTulFlS-sUSsWN8n2oPS4qS0cvRGpnzh13u8XEQqdwNxMGaxSXYU4dpBXl8zBWIZ2lDV3ei6kdxcbt6moTFd2i-_G0/s1600/cn_image_3.size.kara-ross-boutique-02-manhattan-interior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgapR72K98q2W3V96g9uaFpggTLkBLwdjwNdJwg-EuJrEbZL2jXElTulFlS-sUSsWN8n2oPS4qS0cvRGpnzh13u8XEQqdwNxMGaxSXYU4dpBXl8zBWIZ2lDV3ei6kdxcbt6moTFd2i-_G0/s1600/cn_image_3.size.kara-ross-boutique-02-manhattan-interior.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "A compact floor plan forced a creative and methodical use of space."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Kara Ross boutique in Manhattan, located on Madison Avenue near 60th Street.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by architect/interior designer Tony Ingrao.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Bruce Buck.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Alyssa Bird.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2014/02/kara-ross-manhattan-boutique" target="_blank">Kara Ross Opens Her First Boutique In Manhattan</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 7, 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yuy-85vrAIpHbUbzdZzPL-eeb029cJsNpRUmVu6hJDfIYe7hG9m5UXmrOYYtUIAP78crHYVOyqdLfCnqVjTOf4twIB54EOWRZStrt8PfJ5m0QD_zL0NM6aLftiquwS0gNRKAiXsNNAg/s1600/cn_image_3.size.lalique-paris-jewelry-boutique-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yuy-85vrAIpHbUbzdZzPL-eeb029cJsNpRUmVu6hJDfIYe7hG9m5UXmrOYYtUIAP78crHYVOyqdLfCnqVjTOf4twIB54EOWRZStrt8PfJ5m0QD_zL0NM6aLftiquwS0gNRKAiXsNNAg/s1600/cn_image_3.size.lalique-paris-jewelry-boutique-01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Lalique's new Paris boutique has an entire floor dedicated to jewelry. The coup de théâtre is a chandelier dripping in 2,500 Lalique Gourmande crystal rings." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Architectural conception, furniture design, and Gourmande rings mobile: Agence Pustetto.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo courtesy of Agence Pustetto.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Mayer Rus.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2014/07/lalique-jewelry-store-opening" target="_blank">Legendary Crystal Company Lalique Opens a Jewelry Shop in Paris</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (July 2, 2014).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFOvfDBV3k6uEUlmr_Ej-xy7ZGXULNPuoYCdpw8ELiLWbg-C_oK9-feJnclizEe_fPvzriIN0oEvTSjiYR7CFxFGx_N6-K-KBoV8jgWCO94yFskwKZTz0GSoHa2fYWqpuvoO4Baje2-IU/s1600/cn_image_3.size.missoni-flagship-paris-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFOvfDBV3k6uEUlmr_Ej-xy7ZGXULNPuoYCdpw8ELiLWbg-C_oK9-feJnclizEe_fPvzriIN0oEvTSjiYR7CFxFGx_N6-K-KBoV8jgWCO94yFskwKZTz0GSoHa2fYWqpuvoO4Baje2-IU/s1600/cn_image_3.size.missoni-flagship-paris-02.jpg" width="536" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A pair of doors decorated with the company’s iconic zigzag pattern. Colorful frocks hang from metal rods finished in copper, and modular display cases hold accessories. French palaces and gardens inspired the use of the more traditional elements, such as parquet flooring."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design conceived by Angela Missoni and Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography courtesy of Missoni.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Alyssa Bird.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/02/missoni-flagship-paris" target="_blank">Missoni Opens a Flagship on Paris's Rue Saint-Honore</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Daily AD</i>, <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (February 12, 2015).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgz9Arteoes77a9DtzNdmTT5-DJEZQpsMTjwUa2ucJ0mOnMKh3_FlDQ_oMSIA-iZ-dqourkxD-ajGVAUW3zfue9iz0Y7khR0kQGWIzF3y5OvtaXyqK9FaUqd-NLxbYma6PYmr2MVVlrpM/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.best-new-fashion-store-openings-03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgz9Arteoes77a9DtzNdmTT5-DJEZQpsMTjwUa2ucJ0mOnMKh3_FlDQ_oMSIA-iZ-dqourkxD-ajGVAUW3zfue9iz0Y7khR0kQGWIzF3y5OvtaXyqK9FaUqd-NLxbYma6PYmr2MVVlrpM/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.best-new-fashion-store-openings-03.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Sir David Chipperfield conceived Bally’s newest location in London’s Mayfair neighborhood, the brand’s first flagship in two decades." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/shop/2014-12/best-new-fashion-store-openings_slideshow_item2_3" target="_blank">The Best New Fashion Boutiques</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1ZCp6AyE7WYEZUk1coSJ4GSvvhRkC8_wQ4zg_cSHpX8PskojVyNAgWFw70zbzmpkOGQPyXy7imLQ41QOE3sgl-uGXrWehRuP5bx2ptgNJAYogfYg6XrL3QBquW5ZEgKCOQ04qA5vVxM/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.best-new-fashion-store-openings-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1ZCp6AyE7WYEZUk1coSJ4GSvvhRkC8_wQ4zg_cSHpX8PskojVyNAgWFw70zbzmpkOGQPyXy7imLQ41QOE3sgl-uGXrWehRuP5bx2ptgNJAYogfYg6XrL3QBquW5ZEgKCOQ04qA5vVxM/s1600/item3.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.best-new-fashion-store-openings-04.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Sir David Chipperfield conceived Bally’s newest location in London’s Mayfair neighborhood, the brand’s first flagship in two decades. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leather-upholstered swivel chairs and tubular metal furnishings."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/shop/2014-12/best-new-fashion-store-openings_slideshow_item3_4" target="_blank">The Best New Fashion Boutiques</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7oDC27XLQL3Z9Nw7YVdQ4fF68HwGX-fhmCD8SqUhHs8CgFzq_7DVebnysGNQTZIhFwdnA0soByFAqrRu-ZZv0LO5H4wkD14SDfKrB1m9BK1K_pYhOri6r5T44Z9MHFYpaJnQogHwBp8/s1600/item4.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.best-new-fashion-store-openings-05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7oDC27XLQL3Z9Nw7YVdQ4fF68HwGX-fhmCD8SqUhHs8CgFzq_7DVebnysGNQTZIhFwdnA0soByFAqrRu-ZZv0LO5H4wkD14SDfKrB1m9BK1K_pYhOri6r5T44Z9MHFYpaJnQogHwBp8/s1600/item4.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.best-new-fashion-store-openings-05.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Bottega Veneta, Boston - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Italian leather manufacturer opened its first Boston boutique, a 2,500-square-foot space in the city’s Back Bay neighborhood."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/shop/2014-12/best-new-fashion-store-openings_slideshow_item4_5" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">The Best New Fashion Boutiques</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQGbZa_qZJoiqOh2Xd2OhQs_fCZJJRc0Mqr5GCwyrLIG0x_RswyNj01b6q3dJPUtpwlG3WuAKvRmKsfcZrkvjvl5QrpHb8ZWsM2EEWK6iy_CRBwuBokfEgEvy8kyQ7fBEJxPJp3FTbvg/s1600/item05.rendition.slideshowVertical.peter-marino-05-chanel-soho.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQGbZa_qZJoiqOh2Xd2OhQs_fCZJJRc0Mqr5GCwyrLIG0x_RswyNj01b6q3dJPUtpwlG3WuAKvRmKsfcZrkvjvl5QrpHb8ZWsM2EEWK6iy_CRBwuBokfEgEvy8kyQ7fBEJxPJp3FTbvg/s1600/item05.rendition.slideshowVertical.peter-marino-05-chanel-soho.jpg" width="590" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "The architect employed a starkly contrasting palette for the Chanel store in New York’s SoHo district."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Peter Marino.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Matt Tyrnauer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architecture/2012-01/architect-peter-marino-slideshow_slideshow_item4_5" target="_blank">Peter Marino's Edgy Style</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (January 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1g43RpGuSjJH5AZQlJwGAz7z5FXKiVpcIpskS9NZ8_tVS9O8Xq4cREmnlx3FezaDgG9TmT0B-lRUpVkUfsQloB3EyQr0PRC5fpG2oU4hpZGHFcVtGS9IBqRug3nnBRLyfa1wbZ453RaQ/s1600/item06.rendition.slideshowVertical.mish-new-york-06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1g43RpGuSjJH5AZQlJwGAz7z5FXKiVpcIpskS9NZ8_tVS9O8Xq4cREmnlx3FezaDgG9TmT0B-lRUpVkUfsQloB3EyQr0PRC5fpG2oU4hpZGHFcVtGS9IBqRug3nnBRLyfa1wbZ453RaQ/s1600/item06.rendition.slideshowVertical.mish-new-york-06.jpg" width="590" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "An Art Deco sofa pops against hand-painted walls in the foyer."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeweler Mish Tworkowski’s new boutique dazzles in downtown Manhattan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by architect Joseph Singer and decorator Ina Lindemann.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Joshua McHugh</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/shop/2011-12/mish-new-york-jewelry-slideshow_slideshow_item5_6" target="_blank">Mish New York's Sparkling Salon</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a> (December 2011).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE0O5975HlIWVNJCsw5HnuGZEJCRaJAUkh5zOOBwPOIHxH7jZ_eRzs3LGaFSl0XUS1Z7_-ep4eDRp_9YiWdUwO2VhGOCLxCFuFQXdeDrt5M8He4_Oir06MKiVJhlv9-02osUBu4vtdfUU/s1600/QGCHpAWPtTFx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE0O5975HlIWVNJCsw5HnuGZEJCRaJAUkh5zOOBwPOIHxH7jZ_eRzs3LGaFSl0XUS1Z7_-ep4eDRp_9YiWdUwO2VhGOCLxCFuFQXdeDrt5M8He4_Oir06MKiVJhlv9-02osUBu4vtdfUU/s1600/QGCHpAWPtTFx.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Whitewashed marble flooring, plywood accents, and gray felt-upholstered furnishings" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><a href="http://www.lonny.com/See+It+Now/articles/VgCIh2YnFhd/Reed+Krakoff+New+SoHo+Flagship" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Reed Krakoff's New SoHo Flagship</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" by Jennifer Fernandez.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lonny.com/" target="_blank">Lonny</a> (February 26, 2015).</span></div>

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The Fifth Wall - Gold and Silver Ceilings

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many homeowners paint their ceilings "Decorator's White." They don't realize that the ceiling is a room's "fifth wall"  - an extra canvas they can use to add drama to a space. Metal-leaf ceilings transform entryways, powder rooms, master baths, and libraries. According to decorative painter <a href="http://www.willemrackestudio.com/">Willem Racke</a>, who is based in San Francisco, "Ceilings are a good way to make a room more cohesive."  He notes in the <a href="http://www.wallstreetjournal.com/">Wall Street Journal</a> ("<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323374504578221691051717694.html?KEYWORDS=willem+racke#articleTabs%3Darticle">From Chinoiserie to Faux Tortoise Shell</a>" by Sarah Tilton, January 10, 2013) that "metal-leaf ceilings are always popular . . . though the trend has moved from gold to silver." I think silver and gold are equally beautiful, and I offer examples of both below. Which do you prefer?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiryDZ_Lc7eI43H9V_VTc6PVAGYO4sMBhD4u5R4UaxBTreaBTy94K9ytKh1wWHhyphenhyphen7lQw8SnZoFKSZSUEl89EZeIg6XEDixnAIWXlF1Uy1oNxHk-4meUaVwvROoJjh4SWnL8O5rl14XDQ9tt/s1600/img_glamour-sophis_ss6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiryDZ_Lc7eI43H9V_VTc6PVAGYO4sMBhD4u5R4UaxBTreaBTy94K9ytKh1wWHhyphenhyphen7lQw8SnZoFKSZSUEl89EZeIg6XEDixnAIWXlF1Uy1oNxHk-4meUaVwvROoJjh4SWnL8O5rl14XDQ9tt/s640/img_glamour-sophis_ss6.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"At the end of the hall, a trumeau reflects a row of crystal chandeliers. Antique Silver Leaf ceiling treatment. Decorative painting on eglomise: <a href="http://simesstudios.com/">Simes Studios Inc.</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lake Forest, Illinois home of Ditomassos family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior designers: Kara Mann and Kristin Nelson, <a href="http://www.karamann.com/">Kara Mann Design</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Werner Straube.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Krissa Rossbund.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/howwelive/sophistication-home-design_ss6.html">Glamour and Sophistication</a>" produced by Hilary Rose.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgque-tMZ5rIGfEAzzM1ldw0rtNS_ll0GGCt2a-L7vwCohSu2LdnG75r8sDG84LIuxoII8sb69kpO8vkD-HUZZ_bDOISqupr5cSPnIjjwonyIkgSZf5iyjI0xVu1LsU_r_JR6ytvC_WMSbZ/s1600/img_glamour-sophisticationl_ss13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgque-tMZ5rIGfEAzzM1ldw0rtNS_ll0GGCt2a-L7vwCohSu2LdnG75r8sDG84LIuxoII8sb69kpO8vkD-HUZZ_bDOISqupr5cSPnIjjwonyIkgSZf5iyjI0xVu1LsU_r_JR6ytvC_WMSbZ/s640/img_glamour-sophisticationl_ss13.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Ditomassos, who frequently entertain, wanted the butler's pantry to equal the glamour of the rest of the home. Vaulted ceilings shine with a silver leaf finish [by <a href="http://www.designredstudio.com/">DesignRed Decorative Painting</a>], and white built-in cabinets house the homeowners' collection of porcelain serving pieces."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lake Forest, Illinois home of Ditomassos family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior designers: Kara Mann and Kristin Nelson, <a href="http://www.karamann.com/">Kara Mann Design</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Werner Straube.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Krissa Rossbund.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/howwelive/sophistication-home-design_ss13.html">Glamour and Sophistication</a>" produced by Hilary Rose.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbryp-hL1eCGR-QbvvMVPEGrhKmCCwyXDD2f1djpC4cRKw1gazS242TVJwOXEUcMWLfjnsZ-e7sYhx5Ru9XGjHYtlFI10xHlhM6bVOKputWAJmXq3mlV6Iozu5dGo950LcevN-5pBHwPpI/s1600/hbx-library-with-lacquered-walls-and-silver-ceiling-0512-thomas09-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbryp-hL1eCGR-QbvvMVPEGrhKmCCwyXDD2f1djpC4cRKw1gazS242TVJwOXEUcMWLfjnsZ-e7sYhx5Ru9XGjHYtlFI10xHlhM6bVOKputWAJmXq3mlV6Iozu5dGo950LcevN-5pBHwPpI/s640/hbx-library-with-lacquered-walls-and-silver-ceiling-0512-thomas09-lgn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Red, white, and blue gets a bohemian twist in the library with lacquered walls, a silver ceiling, and ethnic textiles."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A 1960s Washington, D.C. town house.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Hillary Thomas and Jeff Lincoln.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Eric Piasecki.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/mad-men-decorating-style-0512#slide-9">A 1960s Town House With a Touch of Mad Men Style</a>" by David A. Keeps.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (May 2012).</span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tY7TRbudcZXb_A07gvbex1tfwuo1451AkJliB79ZFyYnE45qTpxI-J1_6vOpSRNxn3Z_d_e3KNucW6K80oPg8Plpq9XT1RV38yw9HG-is94uFn2VIAvUScGGnupolqkR23BJQuGNr_Nj/s1600/101560835.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tY7TRbudcZXb_A07gvbex1tfwuo1451AkJliB79ZFyYnE45qTpxI-J1_6vOpSRNxn3Z_d_e3KNucW6K80oPg8Plpq9XT1RV38yw9HG-is94uFn2VIAvUScGGnupolqkR23BJQuGNr_Nj/s640/101560835.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hollywood glam rules in the dining room with a gold-leaf ceiling and chairs designed by Billy Haimes covered in Clarence House coral velvet." Ceiling wallpaper: "Gold Leaf" by <a href="http://zuber.fr/">Zuber Inc.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hollywood Regency-style house.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by Timothy Corrigan, <a href="http://timothy-corrigan.com/">Timothy Corrigan Inc.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Mark Edward Harris and Michael McCreary.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Amy Elbert.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/howwelive/hollywood-regency-remodel_ss9.html">Hollywood Before and After</a>" produced by Laura Hull.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqtimH8GyhMOVcNhkemJayEoj0SEPhXJ06jEAKvMMS63L3YZJwlou8j-2Wvz7p9Ddw_CeBb9Iwhk3dVonsx-fhccnvXm9RpW0JJyYvRGD-ftOfiAw6MolyOv4OkJt7pR5qv1HSusZBeHFL/s1600/101560840.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqtimH8GyhMOVcNhkemJayEoj0SEPhXJ06jEAKvMMS63L3YZJwlou8j-2Wvz7p9Ddw_CeBb9Iwhk3dVonsx-fhccnvXm9RpW0JJyYvRGD-ftOfiAw6MolyOv4OkJt7pR5qv1HSusZBeHFL/s640/101560840.jpg" width="446" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hollywood glam rules in the dining room with a gold-leaf ceiling and chairs designed by Billy Haimes covered in Clarence House coral velvet." Ceiling wallpaper: "Gold Leaf" by</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://zuber.fr/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zuber Inc.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hollywood Regency-style house.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by Timothy Corrigan, <a href="http://timothy-corrigan.com/">Timothy Corrigan Inc.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Mark Edward Harris and Michael McCreary.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Amy Elbert.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/howwelive/hollywood-regency-remodel_ss10.html">Hollywood Before and After</a>" produced by Laura Hull.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_9SJohsH9pS_KpiWwaIJX-_shh5i6JKOO3MSbiNf85Xp4M5FLJcNdazATubCMObzGmO6bnNsAFCnn4daHaC9dwJyKU2tD3bIEjD0-PgHNjxNHvm_5473m8FEr8zhNovNXrN0s9otMGGf/s1600/BlogShimmeringCeilingsDomino.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_9SJohsH9pS_KpiWwaIJX-_shh5i6JKOO3MSbiNf85Xp4M5FLJcNdazATubCMObzGmO6bnNsAFCnn4daHaC9dwJyKU2tD3bIEjD0-PgHNjxNHvm_5473m8FEr8zhNovNXrN0s9otMGGf/s640/BlogShimmeringCeilingsDomino.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"[Mary] McDonald envisioned a clubby space with gray walls, graphite wool drapes, crisp while molding, and a handsome vintage Jansen table. Still, she says, 'I've got an 18th-century Francophile fetish.' Ceiling, meet Versailles: Gold wallpaper adds major opulence. Mementos in a single shade - emerald - introduce sophisticated punch."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mary McDonald's Hollywood guest house.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.marymcdonaldinc.com/">Mary McDonald</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Bold and the Beautiful"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dominomag.com/">Domino</a> (Fall - Winter 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKF1_GqBPE5LhmoKhTFuneGNq9YVwfwhSOQ4IsRGJeqGO1kRCe3gIo0syHRoeqo9LgWbbdJyiLOMZXwu7dIRQPSHkp5L6zYShJkbG55SiYcrnqmEdsN3mBxwkpSXDP7qvvCOwKJ_cUQlIQ/s1600/EDC090112Wearstler01-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKF1_GqBPE5LhmoKhTFuneGNq9YVwfwhSOQ4IsRGJeqGO1kRCe3gIo0syHRoeqo9LgWbbdJyiLOMZXwu7dIRQPSHkp5L6zYShJkbG55SiYcrnqmEdsN3mBxwkpSXDP7qvvCOwKJ_cUQlIQ/s640/EDC090112Wearstler01-lgn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The dining table, inspired by Jean-Michel Frank, is surrounded by Art Deco chairs; the chandeliers are of Venetian glass, the ceiling is sheathed in a <a href="http://www.degournay.com/">de Gournay</a> wall covering ["Gilded"]."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mercer Island, Washington home of Lara and Jeff Sanderson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.kellywearstler.com/">Kelly Wearstler</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Mikkel Vang.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Celia Barbour.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/kelly-wearstler-design#slide-8">Shadow Play</a>" produced by Anita Sarsidi.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/">Elle Decor</a> (September 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdHXtj8L7RgRYs4xUEJLEPp6ZA6PaWwrm68p9fjra4yukOyB2E43oddgy5l1au32KF27B2jHAQ2PdRkGl538Fm1Zke5LlUc03y5V2TvHTlqGJM0-WKCgcJ2NXeGmvOgbOT08hv7HNvdZuy/s1600/modern-living-room-lavender-curtains-1011-healingbarsanti02-mdn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdHXtj8L7RgRYs4xUEJLEPp6ZA6PaWwrm68p9fjra4yukOyB2E43oddgy5l1au32KF27B2jHAQ2PdRkGl538Fm1Zke5LlUc03y5V2TvHTlqGJM0-WKCgcJ2NXeGmvOgbOT08hv7HNvdZuy/s640/modern-living-room-lavender-curtains-1011-healingbarsanti02-mdn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The living room ceiling is papered in 'Metallic Leaf' by <a href="http://www.phillipjeffries.com/">Phillip Jeffries</a>."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family home in Scarsdale, New York.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Pat Healing, <a href="http://www.hbhome.com/">HB Home</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Maura McEvoy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/interior-design-color-ideas-1011?click=img_sr#slide-1">A Daring, Dramatic, and Colorful Family Home</a>" by Lisa Cregan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (October 2011).</span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayGTTU6Q_PLuNN18dBEOKmB6YhshrKhlOHU7sS0gD5xgDID6tvduvxIxonNIT6IW5nKSZaZxJpgrlWC3uPwOsigg7xxynJXdmlSpwwOdzbQMySRPnGkjzX1WhPLMMxJfcy9zvEBFm138G/s1600/modern-living-room-metallic-ceiling-1011-healingbarsanti03-mdn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayGTTU6Q_PLuNN18dBEOKmB6YhshrKhlOHU7sS0gD5xgDID6tvduvxIxonNIT6IW5nKSZaZxJpgrlWC3uPwOsigg7xxynJXdmlSpwwOdzbQMySRPnGkjzX1WhPLMMxJfcy9zvEBFm138G/s640/modern-living-room-metallic-ceiling-1011-healingbarsanti03-mdn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The living room ceiling is papered in 'Metallic Leaf' by</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.phillipjeffries.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phillip Jeffries</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Family home in Scarsdale, New York.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Pat Healing, <a href="http://www.hbhome.com/">HB Home</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Maura McEvoy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/interior-design-color-ideas-1011?click=img_sr#slide-2">A Daring, Dramatic, and Colorful Family Home</a>" by Lisa Cregan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (October 2011).</span> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmw7SodenX_qcoU8xdR18o50GrKJZ0C6BwUp_O-083SKxEEMKf6RaX-d_t0Qe5hQ0lRdEEhf5KdUo1ntQXLjP6p7LsrPEqK5dukTthzQPN80k-wGQNgJneExKYAV2v1oy7N7shtqEEj8j/s1600/pink-chairs-tree-chandeleir-diningroom-0311-sommers-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmw7SodenX_qcoU8xdR18o50GrKJZ0C6BwUp_O-083SKxEEMKf6RaX-d_t0Qe5hQ0lRdEEhf5KdUo1ntQXLjP6p7LsrPEqK5dukTthzQPN80k-wGQNgJneExKYAV2v1oy7N7shtqEEj8j/s640/pink-chairs-tree-chandeleir-diningroom-0311-sommers-de.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"To make the Tony Duquette chandelier feel more at home, [Ruthie] Sommers had decorative painter Peter Bolton create an elaborate tree design in gold leaf on the dining room ceiling. Jacaranda and plum trees inspired the vibrant pink Penny Morrison fabric on the front of the chairs and the Claremont floral on the back."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Los Angeles, California home of Ruthie Sommers.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.ruthiesommers.com/">Ruthie Sommers</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/colors/how-to-decorating-with-pink-0211?click=img_sr#slide-7">Photography by Victoria Pearson</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by David A. Keeps.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Sweet Life" produced by Doretta Sperduto.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (March 2011).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtVNl_sFtSUagV1eOuLWqqDLfTWp7y8aOzDHGlNLZ8CIUylo0hMDOmLnJd7Z45vmwNUMJM23kN_rch_QKgT_nbu7gV3CKCZ4UoT4v0-DogsZZdKV6j1Io_bQkW1SCwHb-H5-LUFPR4cbk/s1600/ss_101719259.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtVNl_sFtSUagV1eOuLWqqDLfTWp7y8aOzDHGlNLZ8CIUylo0hMDOmLnJd7Z45vmwNUMJM23kN_rch_QKgT_nbu7gV3CKCZ4UoT4v0-DogsZZdKV6j1Io_bQkW1SCwHb-H5-LUFPR4cbk/s640/ss_101719259.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Inspired by the sparkly powder room at Bemelmans Bar in Manhattan's Carlyle hotel, the room is sheathed in gold-patterned chinoiserie wallpaper and floored in penny tiles."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These penny tiles really do look like pennies.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ceiling: Custom, hand-applied gold leaf by Vonda Jessup.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Floor tiles: Gold penny tile by <a href="http://www.arizonatile.com/">Arizona Tile</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wall covering: <a href="http://search.brunschwig.com/Brunschwig-and-Fils-Print/BR69426050-1328/CoverInformation.aspx">"Chiri on Jute and Cotton"/Gold on Natural, Brunschwig and Fils</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scottsdale, Arizona home of Berkley Vallone.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Berkley Vallone, <a href="http://www.vallonedesign.com/">Vallone Design</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/howwelive/small-home-big-style_ss9.html">Small Home. Big Style</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQeV329U1T03-rCTz4zbR0SmOm2fEyKzQJE8GJA1gcaZSOBcXV8oaDuo_oswTtzW4sadMjPGivqhHlcJnw5yXLCi-gC1lVqxmyG4YOUAcE-0rFjsnqrHEN-aEjU8n_MonlMjWTTG74C38k/s1600/jerry-maggi-mehal-griffey-EDC-1212-03-lgn-34392088+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQeV329U1T03-rCTz4zbR0SmOm2fEyKzQJE8GJA1gcaZSOBcXV8oaDuo_oswTtzW4sadMjPGivqhHlcJnw5yXLCi-gC1lVqxmyG4YOUAcE-0rFjsnqrHEN-aEjU8n_MonlMjWTTG74C38k/s640/jerry-maggi-mehal-griffey-EDC-1212-03-lgn-34392088+%25281%2529.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The walls and floor of the master bath are covered in Bisazza tiles, the French mirror is 1950s, and the custom sink was handmade by Sicilian craftsmen; the fittings are by Hansgrohe, and the ceiling is covered in gold leaf." Note the "random gold tiles sprinkled in to pick up the gold leaf on the ceiling."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mehall Griffey and Jerry Maggi's apartment in Catania, on the island of Siciliy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Gianni Franchellucci.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Craig Seligman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/interiors/italian-design-jerry-maggi-mehall-griffey-interiors?click=main_sr#slide-2">A Sojourn in Sicily</a>" produced by Anita Sarsidi.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/">Elle Decor</a> (December 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5HcqqLsOw7QkbFqOpBch0iCGu9pnSpt5zbMKULDBWeNpYIoD5YlYVRIQyoxE4qUKbBb8xXfA5XGHwUu1L4ghFH3_qHa6Dz0GsVIhRT6tUCggSn-Jf2wYKbCDep9ydXmmJKert3q6eqAeY/s1600/img_youngatheart_ss9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5HcqqLsOw7QkbFqOpBch0iCGu9pnSpt5zbMKULDBWeNpYIoD5YlYVRIQyoxE4qUKbBb8xXfA5XGHwUu1L4ghFH3_qHa6Dz0GsVIhRT6tUCggSn-Jf2wYKbCDep9ydXmmJKert3q6eqAeY/s640/img_youngatheart_ss9.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Shining over the master bath, the ceiling is covered in torn pieces of wallpaper flecked with silver leaf."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Custom wall covering: "Ripped Silver Paper" by <a href="http://walterknabe.com/">Walter Knabe Studio</a>.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tub and faucet: <a href="http://kohler.com/">Kohler</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://suzannekasler.com/">Suzanne Kasler</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architectural design by <a href="http://wtbaker.com/">William T. Baker</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tria Giovan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by Sarah Egge.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/howwelive/young-at-heart_ss9.html">Young at Heart</a>" produced by Betsy Harris.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5zclLKyg6tDYLWdhUt-z7vl2_xGeoJh0nsry0siWrnhzh1_JN-B9QOMXmpuwz5-VcHJ-SgY_8CD8M5m3aEB16BpdsmS-CsIPLMK9KB90IMhXGZnB71RXk_yxJ0USfPou5CRxQWLvo5ZyD/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.07_alexa-hampton-connecticut-home.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5zclLKyg6tDYLWdhUt-z7vl2_xGeoJh0nsry0siWrnhzh1_JN-B9QOMXmpuwz5-VcHJ-SgY_8CD8M5m3aEB16BpdsmS-CsIPLMK9KB90IMhXGZnB71RXk_yxJ0USfPou5CRxQWLvo5ZyD/s640/item6.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.07_alexa-hampton-connecticut-home.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The dining room features a reclaimed-elm pedestal table from Mecox and a silver-leafed ceiling; the mirrored sideboard and silver candlesticks are from John Rosselli Antiques."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Joel Barkley.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decorator: Alexa Hampton.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Durston Saylor.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Jesse Kornbluth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/decor/2011-06/alexa-hampton-connecticut-home-slideshow#slide=7">A Sophisticated Connecticut Home</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (June 2011).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZXsOCVrK6uJcQ7zN8TaHJu8OOkoSVIZDibk01IG7uI4U08xpEt6nj9iZem82-tdtsM5cFNKMnoqI27y-fGwvTsM4s_b0IhFMYDwBy3q3r1yKemRkelNr7ihSp5-hlfvwZ0ZdfmYXyWXiO/s1600/item03.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.03_in_her_fashion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZXsOCVrK6uJcQ7zN8TaHJu8OOkoSVIZDibk01IG7uI4U08xpEt6nj9iZem82-tdtsM5cFNKMnoqI27y-fGwvTsM4s_b0IhFMYDwBy3q3r1yKemRkelNr7ihSp5-hlfvwZ0ZdfmYXyWXiO/s640/item03.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.03_in_her_fashion.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver-leaf paper on the living room ceiling of Daphne Guinness's New York City apartment.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by architect Daniel Romualdez.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Thomas Loof.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Styled by Carolina Irving.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architecture/2011-03/in_her_fashion_slideshow#slide=3">In Her Fashion</a>" written and produced  by James Reginato.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (March 2011).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9WEPUwBQ1-A9TcgJYx9_gLf3QFQdgBWZP7nkryKyA5hAG066hwQmdiMyDySjmhizrZ9rW_VrUGSzqsFkPiBdrKdjvlwN4RCadOa193x9OugqmJ9waVtur4QNdKFr8mxUr_w67bkMd4EV/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl03_britt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9WEPUwBQ1-A9TcgJYx9_gLf3QFQdgBWZP7nkryKyA5hAG066hwQmdiMyDySjmhizrZ9rW_VrUGSzqsFkPiBdrKdjvlwN4RCadOa193x9OugqmJ9waVtur4QNdKFr8mxUr_w67bkMd4EV/s640/item2.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl03_britt.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Moroccan lanterns hang from the ceiling, which was papered and lacquered in silver. Clarence House leopard and brown fabrics."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greenwich Village apartment.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Thomas Britt, ASID.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architectural design by Peter Napolitano.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo credit: Scott Frances.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Penelope Rowlands.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/AD100/2010/thomas_britt/britt_slideshow_022007#slide=3">Bold Move in New York</a>" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (February 2007).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjGDdIcT8JcTrX2Uw2WbdMcEX2ix89iAV7TDoYc3WvyISPyabOEHBxQit6preSicU1G39erZbiO316aKHB3ftl-TR19GPeMNaEmnKHirIIBZvaKoHHI1YRsAjQQC-4t7P_Y3NNW4xQKvn/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl07_britt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjGDdIcT8JcTrX2Uw2WbdMcEX2ix89iAV7TDoYc3WvyISPyabOEHBxQit6preSicU1G39erZbiO316aKHB3ftl-TR19GPeMNaEmnKHirIIBZvaKoHHI1YRsAjQQC-4t7P_Y3NNW4xQKvn/s640/item6.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl07_britt.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A silver papered ceiling enhances the airiness" of the kitchen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greenwich Village apartment.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Thomas Britt, ASID.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architectural design by Peter Napolitano.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo credit: Scott Frances.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Penelope Rowlands.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/AD100/2010/thomas_britt/britt_slideshow_022007#slide=7">Bold Move in New York</a>" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architectural Digest</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(February 2007).</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXQz_Fg8_ofXQTuFGccYi0JM-_LvS8Y4S9rrzpevjs33kCrzl5blpJ_tsVpp4GJlXct7O1lmO4PcJpTX_jQtPTL6Pr-R_ZkIPRPL9215NzLb09az282Lk2abXT_1RZV-z-xMNSyuHA66To/s1600/item0.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl01_allem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXQz_Fg8_ofXQTuFGccYi0JM-_LvS8Y4S9rrzpevjs33kCrzl5blpJ_tsVpp4GJlXct7O1lmO4PcJpTX_jQtPTL6Pr-R_ZkIPRPL9215NzLb09az282Lk2abXT_1RZV-z-xMNSyuHA66To/s640/item0.rendition.slideshowHorizontal.arsl01_allem.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" 'The space itself was inspirational,' designer Charles Allem says of a penthouse he remade for a Manhattan couple. Silver leaf adds drama to the living room's barrel-vaulted ceiling. [The silver leaf was "done by hand on a scaffolding . . . [and] took . . . three months."] Velvet draperies, hand-printed in Italy, 'never stop cascading,' he says, from the beveled-mirror rods he designed. Italian etchings and Murano glass lamp, left, Lorin Marsh. Stark carpet."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Charles Allem, ASID.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Paul Warchol.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Nancy Collins.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/AD100/2010/charles_allem/allem_article_042007">Manhattan Grand</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a> (April 2007).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMdlz53WcgTbaADflnaoXoicMDv6IgnuW_icXrRkOq7YfQxnD21drz15wNJYv6zqvbCaVqWo7CqEiuZZNtFS_1WGt0wJmGNLHEPr9jHRqG0k_Z5IiirgQqsbsrzaQEofTUcPwqLj7-SYIQ/s1600/ss_101774345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMdlz53WcgTbaADflnaoXoicMDv6IgnuW_icXrRkOq7YfQxnD21drz15wNJYv6zqvbCaVqWo7CqEiuZZNtFS_1WGt0wJmGNLHEPr9jHRqG0k_Z5IiirgQqsbsrzaQEofTUcPwqLj7-SYIQ/s640/ss_101774345.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Willem Racke and Leigh Edwards did not deviate far from the home's Mediterranean roots in this entrance hall. 'We wanted it to encourage guests to see more of the house,' Racke explains. The original woodwork and marble-tiled floor drove color direction. Gold highlights were added to the ceiling, finished to look like rich leather."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Willem Racke and Leigh Edwards, <a href="http://www.willemrackestudio.com/">Willem Racke Studio</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Entrance Hall, Traditional Home's 2011 San Francisco Decorator Showhouse.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Philip Harvey.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by Clara Haneberg.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/showhouses/sanfrancisco-decorator-showcase-2011_ss2.html">2011 San Francisco Decorator Showhouse</a>" produced by Heather Lobdell.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/">Traditional Home</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A photo of the black-and-white striped "circus tent" bathroom that Willem Racke created for interior designer <a href="http://www.stephenshubel.com/">Stephen Shubel</a>'s San Francisco studio appears in my blog post, "<a href="http://aflippenlife.blogspot.com/2012/08/black-and-white.html">Black and White</a>," dated August 28, 2012.</span></div></div>

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Dreaming of an Orange Christmas

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Red and green are the traditional colors of Christmas, of course, but when I think of the holidays, I also think of orange. I remember visiting historical homes, such as Bayou Bend in my hometown of Houston (pictured below), as a child and seeing Christmas decorations made of oranges, apples, pineapples, and pears. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RGo2EBXKzXMoJTTbp1YApXLhLqLe5iwrWOycJncidwjWHwNguomorTzP_BLO73uHu9_4p4O6DLfQtRu2e511TXrzHWtlyCafxho97usMZyqxvc3Ls0W5xdFXh9Bqn_4LI-xd9XqkQgl7/s1600/215bc42f3d8299d8e9ae8c695f7dd882.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RGo2EBXKzXMoJTTbp1YApXLhLqLe5iwrWOycJncidwjWHwNguomorTzP_BLO73uHu9_4p4O6DLfQtRu2e511TXrzHWtlyCafxho97usMZyqxvc3Ls0W5xdFXh9Bqn_4LI-xd9XqkQgl7/s640/215bc42f3d8299d8e9ae8c695f7dd882.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas display at <a href="http://www.mfah.org/visit/yuletide/">Bayou Bend</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo Credit: <a href="http://www.mfah.org/">Bayou Bend/MFAH</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Bayou Bend is the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston museum for American decorative arts and paintings. Displayed in the former home of Houston civic leader and philanthropist Ima Hogg (1882 - 1975), the collection is one of the finest showcases of American furnishings, silver, ceramics, and paintings in the world. The house is situated on 14 acres of organically maintained gardens in Houston's historic River Oaks neighborhood."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am sharing some photos of homes decorated by Mary McDonald, Stephen Shubel, Pamela Pierce, Jan Roden, and Michelle Stewart. These designers have incorporated the color orange into holiday decor by using citrus, which in many cases complements orange furnishings or artwork that is part of the homeowners' everyday decor.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found the following photographs of designer Mary McDonald's Beverly Hills home on the <a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda website</a>. I love the way the orange trees and the fruit in the garlands complement the orange that seems to fill her house year-round. Her literal use of peacock blue adds drama to an already magnificent space. Orange and blue are complementary colors, but she has used them in a way that makes a powerful statement. As she explains in a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575519763635033670.html#articleTabs%3Darticle"><i>Wall Street Journal</i> article dated October 8, 2010</a>,"I can't say there's any rule about colors that go together. It's more about the value of a color, its tonality. You have to strive for balance." She further notes, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also tend to use a palette of just two or three colors evenly placed around the room.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.5px;">" The orange and blue appear to be part of the stained glass window in the picture below, and they reappear throughout the following rooms: </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVYSWS6AB7Jo1GjNLizzsSLL2uK9XvBnmse4t95USNQlFLWvHWei4gZpE-NLQBMmcI4lWMkmFBaT6LVI6ffCBNeFyi9cJC1evqKC-Up6UA9BTzcAlE3AzPVAHTGZi8_Jj-RKioQo_7WE4p/s1600/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-1_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVYSWS6AB7Jo1GjNLizzsSLL2uK9XvBnmse4t95USNQlFLWvHWei4gZpE-NLQBMmcI4lWMkmFBaT6LVI6ffCBNeFyi9cJC1evqKC-Up6UA9BTzcAlE3AzPVAHTGZi8_Jj-RKioQo_7WE4p/s640/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-1_md.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Mary McDonald's Beverly Hills home, decorated for Christmas, is aglow under a French 19th-century crystal and dore bronze chandelier and stained-glass windows."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://marymcdonaldinc.com/">Mary McDonald</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel-Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/los-angeles-holiday-decorating-1208?click=main_sr#slide-1">Winter Warmth</a>" by Victoria Amory.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (December 2008).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpvMICvapqkgEySydZ_Szroil8XvdvnfRiSnJdcrxfI-1gObDnYBwGp92530RwEk6MT2vH6vluAoRctttsu-xednIO3S76y1_huZ6R9aPzY_fe6qH6YIMHOieB-Qf62ZIg8G_ELcJ8CSA/s1600/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-2_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpvMICvapqkgEySydZ_Szroil8XvdvnfRiSnJdcrxfI-1gObDnYBwGp92530RwEk6MT2vH6vluAoRctttsu-xednIO3S76y1_huZ6R9aPzY_fe6qH6YIMHOieB-Qf62ZIg8G_ELcJ8CSA/s640/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-2_md.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Queen Anne settee in needlepoint. Pillows in Clarence House leopard velvet and Ralph Lauren velvet. Reproduction French stool in velvet and Scalamandre damask. Anglo-Indian chair in fabric by Manuel Canovas. Ikat on table. Ralph Lauren hurricanes. Tony Duquette candlesticks. French empire mirror."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beverly Hills home of Mary McDonald.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://marymcdonaldinc.com/">Mary McDonald</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel-Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/los-angeles-holiday-decorating-1208?click=main_sr#slide-2">Winter Warmth</a>" by Victoria Amory.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (December 2008).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETWedPpjbd4iPlIAu13dpAO00KLE6wPcrCsChba0kFjWUwPSDdCb9uLbJnzTv5RbFuahPBxpQUl1c6IgrUX97vpEyn2yH2-zOcHdWY8bQjn8M93HIb836zp6WNMOO4DsAI4lReyIqyG_a/s1600/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-3_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETWedPpjbd4iPlIAu13dpAO00KLE6wPcrCsChba0kFjWUwPSDdCb9uLbJnzTv5RbFuahPBxpQUl1c6IgrUX97vpEyn2yH2-zOcHdWY8bQjn8M93HIb836zp6WNMOO4DsAI4lReyIqyG_a/s640/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-3_md.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Sheraton urn on Regency table. French 1940s chairs."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beverly Hills home of Mary McDonald.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://marymcdonaldinc.com/">Mary McDonald</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel-Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/los-angeles-holiday-decorating-1208?click=main_sr#slide-3">Winter Warmth</a>" by Victoria Amory.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (December 2008).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Cx2s5o1tBEMmI8F6Z7KgVgeRGrkIwbc6GqjbZxsPhhqFOAbQonG0q1RR_AJwvFD3M12Rbmj8iRbHxITUxo3KkSp1QVJvx_GlejWIqDK_L2KlW8S7EWltqUtH-stg7w00HrktOvgFp8Ko/s1600/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-4_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Cx2s5o1tBEMmI8F6Z7KgVgeRGrkIwbc6GqjbZxsPhhqFOAbQonG0q1RR_AJwvFD3M12Rbmj8iRbHxITUxo3KkSp1QVJvx_GlejWIqDK_L2KlW8S7EWltqUtH-stg7w00HrktOvgFp8Ko/s640/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-4_md.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Custom velvet drapes. Reproduction Italian lamps. Swedish Empire daybeds."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beverly Hills home of Mary McDonald.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://marymcdonaldinc.com/">Mary McDonald</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel-Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/los-angeles-holiday-decorating-1208?click=main_sr#slide-4">Winter Warmth</a>" by Victoria Amory.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (December 2008).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-MomJY8ZLMFn3zEI-FU54bfUeDkUdy1hIhUO3Hy8v5bwdYN5eA0J984KLppdmj4inLdhmyB7pXzIYffouDGyNWsx2ox0ZJvPqRdzwczMJY1FUDpkXV5vYJcB_AVjaZR91tVMOemMuUOS/s1600/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-5_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6-MomJY8ZLMFn3zEI-FU54bfUeDkUdy1hIhUO3Hy8v5bwdYN5eA0J984KLppdmj4inLdhmyB7pXzIYffouDGyNWsx2ox0ZJvPqRdzwczMJY1FUDpkXV5vYJcB_AVjaZR91tVMOemMuUOS/s640/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-5_md.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Reproduction Italian lamps. Swedish Empire daybeds. French sconces. Spanish 18th-century oil. J. Robert Scott chairs; bolsters in Clarence House velvet."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beverly Hills home of Mary McDonald.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://marymcdonaldinc.com/">Mary McDonald</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel-Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/los-angeles-holiday-decorating-1208?click=main_sr#slide-5">Winter Warmth</a>" by Victoria Amory.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (December 2008).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRFbv7QRn4SpRCJJbNJc4EFbJN3PzgltWTPm31Qp3U0MHGhR-sq4AbfJOt_wB0u4OomG4UjNKE3hRBNCSzVcQGvyNLkGBU30hJxcstuIyzLKJUx-LEHhobjICQP42QG6FUoUbbqDcsFkmL/s1600/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-6_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRFbv7QRn4SpRCJJbNJc4EFbJN3PzgltWTPm31Qp3U0MHGhR-sq4AbfJOt_wB0u4OomG4UjNKE3hRBNCSzVcQGvyNLkGBU30hJxcstuIyzLKJUx-LEHhobjICQP42QG6FUoUbbqDcsFkmL/s640/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-6_md.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Flanking doorway in McDonald's home, Anglo-Indian, Regency-style inlaid chairs with cushions in Ralph Lauren linen; pillows in Ralph Lauren velvet. Custom velvet drapes. Peacock feathers, fans and faux birds from India, pine cones, velvet ribbon and dried, real and faux fruits embellish the holiday greenery."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beverly Hills home of Mary McDonald.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://marymcdonaldinc.com/">Mary McDonald</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel-Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/los-angeles-holiday-decorating-1208?click=main_sr#slide-6">Winter Warmth</a>" by Victoria Amory.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (December 2008).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNmHjvOKIYXXTp3L_QPStod2E6bpmY3QUjgvQbzDqs6pQfF4Opacs0qrEWcA_87uSi2AR7XpIA83KFYx2B_Wo8gi-BIL9lJWPDL53XPk2RCa4Dx3AbEFJBfr1X1vD0hZUyLt40QN7QINj/s1600/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-7_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNmHjvOKIYXXTp3L_QPStod2E6bpmY3QUjgvQbzDqs6pQfF4Opacs0qrEWcA_87uSi2AR7XpIA83KFYx2B_Wo8gi-BIL9lJWPDL53XPk2RCa4Dx3AbEFJBfr1X1vD0hZUyLt40QN7QINj/s640/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-7_md.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Peacock feathers, fans and faux birds from India, pine cones, velvet ribbon and dried, real and faux fruits embellish the holiday greenery."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beverly Hills home of Mary McDonald.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://marymcdonaldinc.com/">Mary McDonald</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel-Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/los-angeles-holiday-decorating-1208?click=main_sr#slide-7">Winter Warmth</a>" by Victoria Amory.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (December 2008).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTfXDImZ07PCxCou7XF6myFIhpp_1CXIjchst-okGXVAXMhnCQ39ABORa588Bi0YgaMEiygmwfZORJWkbbNP69cZ_2lqxTcn3gOnjFw2pCyV1EQu5XYtDuKjR3XC2GMFyVhd_JGmVD3KMF/s1600/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-8_md.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTfXDImZ07PCxCou7XF6myFIhpp_1CXIjchst-okGXVAXMhnCQ39ABORa588Bi0YgaMEiygmwfZORJWkbbNP69cZ_2lqxTcn3gOnjFw2pCyV1EQu5XYtDuKjR3XC2GMFyVhd_JGmVD3KMF/s640/mcdonald-beverly-hills-1108-8_md.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Regency marble-top, gilded console. French 18th-century portrait in giltwood frame from Paris. French 19th-century dore bronze candlesticks. Bronze stags and Christmas decorations are from the homeowner's collection."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beverly Hills home of Mary McDonald.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://marymcdonaldinc.com/">Mary McDonald</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Miguel-Flores-Vianna.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/los-angeles-holiday-decorating-1208?click=main_sr#slide-8">Winter Warmth</a>" by Victoria Amory.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (December 2008).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8lCxdyvwtzI5HTLC8-m5bCn6v-XDildC9odmLx7YedMarnaw4Sx35KpQd49tzoCOr5Gq8jfsP0Utcc84IA2vzscCtRcFZE7nZf5t_VSN2TbRxT3rpcS5MiEy0BGdHr9hOVfRZkpkeQrH/s1600/holidayrooms3tree-lgn-54628820.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8lCxdyvwtzI5HTLC8-m5bCn6v-XDildC9odmLx7YedMarnaw4Sx35KpQd49tzoCOr5Gq8jfsP0Utcc84IA2vzscCtRcFZE7nZf5t_VSN2TbRxT3rpcS5MiEy0BGdHr9hOVfRZkpkeQrH/s640/holidayrooms3tree-lgn-54628820.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Original oak beams lend rustic charm to interiors filled with antique, vintage and new furnishings collected in France. Napoleon III chair. A 19th-century ottoman."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Francisco designer Stephen Shubel's Loire Valley 16th-century home decorated for Christmas. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.stephenshubel.com/">Stephen Shubel</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Thibault Jeanson.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gregory Firlotte.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/holidayrooms?click=main_sr#slide-3">Loire Holiday</a>" produced by Carolyn Englefield.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (November - December 2005).</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlskoaojNNONfchPm6bIaxMG_5PKJ8iqADmXqlmulNblbqdmTau-DphMQ2F_1wmHC5wK8RtGS5_n3UPaEVSHqNIdQa6lKMue2FEMTIQrG5OjVAauZxyX-T5d8N6tLyBOLK-Y41dzQKWqky/s1600/OrangeStephenShubelstraightened.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlskoaojNNONfchPm6bIaxMG_5PKJ8iqADmXqlmulNblbqdmTau-DphMQ2F_1wmHC5wK8RtGS5_n3UPaEVSHqNIdQa6lKMue2FEMTIQrG5OjVAauZxyX-T5d8N6tLyBOLK-Y41dzQKWqky/s640/OrangeStephenShubelstraightened.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Original oak beams lend rustic charm to interiors filled with antique, vintage and new furnishings collected in France. Sofa from Habite, Paris. Old World Weavers leopard silk velvet on pillows. Bust, 19th-century, sits atop 1930s pedestal."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Francisco designer Stephen Shubel's Loire Valley 16th-century home decorated for Christmas. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.stephenshubel.com/">Stephen Shubel</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Thibault Jeanson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Gregory Firlotte.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Loire Holiday" produced by Carolyn Englefield.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (November - December 2005).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN8pv9QCmRuDpbkeK97NU6a92j94mY9NUFqd0wOanfrGVyMWtAOjYOfrftNHGl7aLoHCSF_BKWcpH2BkILvC1uvjLg47oPu7KqQpOI_Oj_2lEwABuAimivORTaCRa23j_sBAC_GyRYtNFN/s1600/BlogGreenSpacesPamelaPierce+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN8pv9QCmRuDpbkeK97NU6a92j94mY9NUFqd0wOanfrGVyMWtAOjYOfrftNHGl7aLoHCSF_BKWcpH2BkILvC1uvjLg47oPu7KqQpOI_Oj_2lEwABuAimivORTaCRa23j_sBAC_GyRYtNFN/s640/BlogGreenSpacesPamelaPierce+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Italianate home constructed in 1995 in Houston, Texas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A December drizzle highlights the glow of the windows onto the rear terrace, with its antique limestone fountain and oversized French Anduze urns." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://ppiercedesigns.nairisoft.com/index.aspx">Pamela Pierce</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tria Giovan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Tailor-Made Trimmings" by Lydia Somerville.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Southern Accents</i> (November - December 2003).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96T9UqXevJgM18xO32gEGjdg6knskO7yRSXknGQs4LUC4Rp6JJV-6wRQbVhccOfGKYXnDjfCA7eJdQJmVFzhX_MsdbMCyECUl8AaQ7gb6P_zDMk_bXgqzEBfvVl9VSajypqPGKLjTXiK0/s1600/BlogOrangeChristmasPamelaPierce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96T9UqXevJgM18xO32gEGjdg6knskO7yRSXknGQs4LUC4Rp6JJV-6wRQbVhccOfGKYXnDjfCA7eJdQJmVFzhX_MsdbMCyECUl8AaQ7gb6P_zDMk_bXgqzEBfvVl9VSajypqPGKLjTXiK0/s640/BlogOrangeChristmasPamelaPierce.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A 19th-century still life above 18th-century French limestone mantel. Custom lounge chairs slipcovered in Rogers and Goffigon camel hair. Curtains in Old World Weavers toile."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New construction in Houston, Texas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://ppiercedesigns.nairisoft.com/index.aspx">Pamela Pierce</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Peter Vitale.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Nancy Perot Mulford.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"House Warming - Invitation to Comfort" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/">Veranda</a> (November - December 2006).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMeCfkeY0gb4Fxguq0__VfSjraKyFOYaRMioWN7bR3gyhfNJOiv3V4jtJCJu7RFJ_TB8O-zHz1tTM5GGXqvKzPmKjDzK4OSGlGIHuTbGowsjfY1GCtXAK65oOMj-k74LXmP4j-S_ZrrEk/s1600/BlogOrangeCrushHBDec2003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMeCfkeY0gb4Fxguq0__VfSjraKyFOYaRMioWN7bR3gyhfNJOiv3V4jtJCJu7RFJ_TB8O-zHz1tTM5GGXqvKzPmKjDzK4OSGlGIHuTbGowsjfY1GCtXAK65oOMj-k74LXmP4j-S_ZrrEk/s640/BlogOrangeCrushHBDec2003.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A seasonal still life combines a pumpkin, fruits, and pastry stands of graduated sizes."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charlottesville, Virginia home of Jan Roden, interior designer and owner of <a href="http://www.andgeorge.com/">And George</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Gordon Beall.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by Ted Loos.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A Fresh Look at Tradition" produced by Senga Mortimer.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> (December 2003).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhr6vcOrvmlJQ33MO1ZiKdRXaur1CAoU6eLTRYHUoNnAEzA3sGfsNuVo3ohvjSeV1YT1kPATRNeCXaevCaE7vtrABOGdHsD1zDSbe_sDj2zPvxtgn6VxZppEkhrN3RTVlNa5czGeR1DTUv/s1600/BlogOrangeChristmasMichelleStewart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhr6vcOrvmlJQ33MO1ZiKdRXaur1CAoU6eLTRYHUoNnAEzA3sGfsNuVo3ohvjSeV1YT1kPATRNeCXaevCaE7vtrABOGdHsD1zDSbe_sDj2zPvxtgn6VxZppEkhrN3RTVlNa5czGeR1DTUv/s640/BlogOrangeChristmasMichelleStewart.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The dining table features a composition of cake stands with compotes of roses, peonies, and kumquats, wreathed by whimsical snow covered trees."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Houston, Texas home of Michelle Stewart and her family.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Michelle Stewart.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tria Giovan.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by Jill Kirchner Simpson.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"White Christmas" produced by Susanna Showers Moldawer.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Southern Accents</i> (November - December 2005).</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The dramatically scaled still life of oranges is by Mexican artist Gustavo Valenzuela."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Houston, Texas home of Michelle Stewart and her family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Michelle Stewart.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Tria Giovan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by Jill Kirchner Simpson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"White Christmas" produced by Susanna Showers Moldawer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Southern Accents</i> (November - December 2005).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Dreaming of an Orange Christmas

Red and green are the traditional colors of Christmas, of course, but when I think of the holidays, I also think of orange. I remember visit...

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