Black Friday

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tailored. Ageless. Glamorous. Sleek. These are just a few of the adjectives used to describe black in a room. Pair black with white for a crisp, clean look. Add brass to an ebony space for a striking effect. High-gloss walls have a reflective quality - creating drama and the illusion of space. Mirrors, metallic surfaces and crystal chandeliers can help bounce the light around even more - making a small, dark room look larger. Vinyl wallcoverings, such as those offered by <a href="http://www.phillipjeffries.com/" target="_blank">Phillip Jeffries</a>, create the appearance of lacquer without all the layers of paint. <a href="http://houseandhome.com/design/photo-gallery-black-rooms?page=9" target="_blank">Interior designer Scott Yetman believes that every room should have black in it</a>, but <a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">designer Stephen Shubel cautions that black, like gold leaf, should be used carefully</a>. He suggests using black in a mostly white space "<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">like the lines in a drawing . . . tying everything together</a>." <a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/ideas/how-to-design-room-stan-topol-0411?click=main_sr#slide-11" target="_blank">Stan Topol thinks light floors are necessary with dark walls</a>, and <a href="http://houseandhome.com/design/photo-gallery-tommy-smythes-victorian-makeover?page=8" target="_blank">Tommy Smythe uses neutral grasscloth to balance high-gloss black</a>. For inspiration, take a look . . . </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz-N0reDIRJGA5qLSHV3040_vahVx4KS3apbym11aTnT1DfcTGJcSVP22NPb60-Zx1TnWpV5SCpTMj5lju9UD3996beKokgN_Wi4Wvb8YcdDJeJA7MiZLuuU4oR8pv8KRaJyeyfYEvV6u5/s1600/white-exterior-0706_xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz-N0reDIRJGA5qLSHV3040_vahVx4KS3apbym11aTnT1DfcTGJcSVP22NPb60-Zx1TnWpV5SCpTMj5lju9UD3996beKokgN_Wi4Wvb8YcdDJeJA7MiZLuuU4oR8pv8KRaJyeyfYEvV6u5/s640/white-exterior-0706_xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The front door of the three-story Georgian-style house in San Francisco is glossy black - very tailored."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Design by <a href="http://www.kenfulk.com/" target="_blank">Ken Fulk</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Karyn R. Millet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/such-style-0706?click=img_sr#slide-1" target="_blank">Such Style - and Kids, Too?</a>" by Mimi Read.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (July 2006).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0Gq5zU4PFl11UEibnR5VdscwwsxHZ7T7WRrIsBYBR_5q0pCMw3pvZJvznIfqAeMLBPO8UclZrl2OZC4NczREzG2tRb17Im5gHi1Ojbyb1RzTlagHLdw2d2YJcNU-5smaj6R9NDg4k_J7/s1600/Angele%252BParlange%252BBlue%252Bwalls%252Bblack%252Bdoors%252Bhallway%252BrIlas7Fklkwl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0Gq5zU4PFl11UEibnR5VdscwwsxHZ7T7WRrIsBYBR_5q0pCMw3pvZJvznIfqAeMLBPO8UclZrl2OZC4NczREzG2tRb17Im5gHi1Ojbyb1RzTlagHLdw2d2YJcNU-5smaj6R9NDg4k_J7/s640/Angele%252BParlange%252BBlue%252Bwalls%252Bblack%252Bdoors%252Bhallway%252BrIlas7Fklkwl.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"[Angele] Parlange's South African chandelier creates a glowing pattern on her ceiling. 'It's like looking at a kaleidoscope,' she says. The 1940s mirrored cabinet is from a Paris flea market."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Moore</a> "Black" paint in High Gloss finish.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manhattan pied-a-terre of Angele Parlange, designer and author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Creole-Thrift-Premium-Southern-Spending/dp/B000U62IF4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385529757&sr=8-1&keywords=creole+thrift" target="_blank">Creole Thrift</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Patrick Cline.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Florals and styling by Robert Valley.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art direction by Michelle Adams.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.lonny.com/magazine/December+2010/jwPpZwiA55O/1#76" target="_blank">Family Tradition</a>" written by Shawn Gauthier.</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> (December 2010).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1P1NoIQTt4hpn7THGf__vB-UD5WwY2SODwRU-_bNHlmt_pY-fx5QVY-plhaJFY0dLrlEErqSLHmbVDcjRekq_gP6vKW_JElxJV0P73iTqTIEZihPmo6bS2Rx8mweifRmOhgCcKDbg1WBY/s1600/Romano-EDC-06-13-14-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1P1NoIQTt4hpn7THGf__vB-UD5WwY2SODwRU-_bNHlmt_pY-fx5QVY-plhaJFY0dLrlEErqSLHmbVDcjRekq_gP6vKW_JElxJV0P73iTqTIEZihPmo6bS2Rx8mweifRmOhgCcKDbg1WBY/s640/Romano-EDC-06-13-14-lgn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Louis XV chairs covered in a Clarence House velvet are paired with prints by Robert Goodnough, left, and Andy Warhol, and the circa-1970 Lucite sculpture is by Vasa Mihich; doors in a glossy black by <a href="http://www.finepaintsofeurope.com/" target="_blank">Fine Paints of Europe</a> lead to the entrance hall, which features a Regency mahogany hall chair and walls glazed in a custom green lacquer."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upper East Side apartment of interior designer <a href="http://toddalexanderromano.com/" target="_blank">Todd Alexander Romano</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Renovation architects: Richard Bories and James Shearron, <a href="http://www.boriesandshearron.com/" target="_blank">Bories and Shearron</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by William Abranowicz.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Kathleen Hackett.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/interiors/dressed-to-the-nines#slide-5" target="_blank">Dressed to the Nines</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/" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a> (June 2013).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhom7-acfCpzFU9eX2nhLc2B5qguiPHiIVWOXN4fPhJlOLLebdj8Hb0qUhoQl6DTAOhqhCh7y3amwL_MTqSWxVvq3ZUc6u45uqVgjbyHvtxTf9YvDt44O6466rR15i-ndPNaKw2JSVMKD3p/s1600/EDC090112Wearstler14-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhom7-acfCpzFU9eX2nhLc2B5qguiPHiIVWOXN4fPhJlOLLebdj8Hb0qUhoQl6DTAOhqhCh7y3amwL_MTqSWxVvq3ZUc6u45uqVgjbyHvtxTf9YvDt44O6466rR15i-ndPNaKw2JSVMKD3p/s640/EDC090112Wearstler14-lgn.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In the entry hall, the light fixture is vintage, and the stone sculpture is from JF Chen; the walls are painted in <a href="http://www.glidden.com/" target="_blank">Glidden</a>'s Onyx Black, the floor is patterned with three different marbles, and on the ceiling is a wall covering by SJW Studios."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mercer Island, Washington, home of Lara and Jeff Sanderson.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.kellywearstler.com/" target="_blank">Kelly Wearstler</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Mikkel Vang.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Celia Barbour.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/kelly-wearstler-design?click=main_sr#slide-2" target="_blank">Shadow Play</a>" produced by Anita Sarsidi.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1049949022"></span>Elle Decor<span id="goog_1049949023"></span></a> (September 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRAeNctLvOggvnY_awsjYrcFdnJ18q5sLW8Ax2dy0OA_AwuUq4QbBXu82B_6fWHqemxQ5odzFuscsnBmF7NOGXEHc3GVLOglGV9gwvQAH7mm_8cbpY2ioDzPjf0xVtdWNHN5qLKovfPmM/s1600/8-tommysmythetrendhouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRAeNctLvOggvnY_awsjYrcFdnJ18q5sLW8Ax2dy0OA_AwuUq4QbBXu82B_6fWHqemxQ5odzFuscsnBmF7NOGXEHc3GVLOglGV9gwvQAH7mm_8cbpY2ioDzPjf0xVtdWNHN5qLKovfPmM/s640/8-tommysmythetrendhouse.jpg" width="374" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Pair glossy black walls with brass accents. The black paint's glaze finish sets the walls aglow. A brass mirror, chandelier and pillow fabric infuse the dark space with warmth."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wall color: "Jet Black" (2120-10) from <a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Moore</a>'s Color Preview Collection.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Designer: Tommy Smythe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project Manager: Jenny Dames.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Angus Fergusson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://houseandhome.com/design/photo-gallery-tommy-smythes-victorian-makeover?page=7" target="_blank">Tommy Smythe's Victorian Makeover</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.houseandhome.com/" target="_blank">Canadian House and Home</a> (January 2012).</span><br /><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPQmjaM9bqrmC8laiLBO-vUiG9xciXHD53DdrXG4sstVeeaSmDFHVkdnB24-hBFMJJ1l_hb4zT1wOe89FgMPfXge8VcTz3txkKjjGnnRr9vNgMb2PpdQTP8ZHaKWwHwk3qPtLVHzUv5lEB/s1600/9-tommysmythetrendhouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPQmjaM9bqrmC8laiLBO-vUiG9xciXHD53DdrXG4sstVeeaSmDFHVkdnB24-hBFMJJ1l_hb4zT1wOe89FgMPfXge8VcTz3txkKjjGnnRr9vNgMb2PpdQTP8ZHaKWwHwk3qPtLVHzUv5lEB/s640/9-tommysmythetrendhouse.jpg" width="402" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Use bookshelves for customized TV storage. The backs of the shelves are covered in a neutral grasscloth wallpaper to balance the dark walls. Placing furniture in front of a bookcase creates a cozy, layered effect."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wall color: "Jet Black" (2120-10) from <a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Moore</a>'s Color Preview Collection.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Designer: Tommy Smythe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project Manager: Jenny Dames.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Angus Fergusson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://houseandhome.com/design/photo-gallery-tommy-smythes-victorian-makeover?page=8" target="_blank">Tommy Smythe's Victorian Makeover</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.houseandhome.com/" target="_blank">Canadian House and Home</a> (January 2012).</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/AVvXsEh_5sdZbyPAvnnt-ZYylrZ7Mkp-N4KTx8j9kN2yOaPYI4mW6aOojDvtmKcZW8klFw99fjonoNLxfhgmC53_GEaQcwLvra45Oaxhu9BELCawsZY96n3exevA9xh1oJjvIsniVr3wjgih-ttr/s1600/img_capecod_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_5sdZbyPAvnnt-ZYylrZ7Mkp-N4KTx8j9kN2yOaPYI4mW6aOojDvtmKcZW8klFw99fjonoNLxfhgmC53_GEaQcwLvra45Oaxhu9BELCawsZY96n3exevA9xh1oJjvIsniVr3wjgih-ttr/s640/img_capecod_8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Black lacquered walls set off the crisp white woodwork in the Ishams' family room. Horizontal stripes add a fresh twist to draperies."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black paint with "Brilliant White" trim by <a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Moore</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lance and Tracy Isham's classic shingled cottage on Cape Cod.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Michael Cox and Mary Foley, Foley and Cox Interiors Inc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Renovation architect: Douglas E. Dick, LDA Architects.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Bruce Buck.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text by Sandra S. Soria.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/weekendlivingsecondhome/cape-code-reconstruction_8.html" target="_blank">Cape Cod Reconstruction</a>" produced by Jenny Bradley.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Home</a>.</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/AVvXsEhT9IOa7k1-rtFmMdWO0CB4VwHQnkEhNnfb52R_fV_NLIdYxf8cTGcG5gOYg5yezsB7ss6szAEoItZV4lm4OaIPmYX1vXsu1MAGa4a4Fyi_URgb0W8_ke4QdzAkaup_oeA8D7AwUvaRWJFn/s1600/Black+Paint+black+white+desk+pair+pink+chairs+UQ7efBzWXnal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT9IOa7k1-rtFmMdWO0CB4VwHQnkEhNnfb52R_fV_NLIdYxf8cTGcG5gOYg5yezsB7ss6szAEoItZV4lm4OaIPmYX1vXsu1MAGa4a4Fyi_URgb0W8_ke4QdzAkaup_oeA8D7AwUvaRWJFn/s640/Black+Paint+black+white+desk+pair+pink+chairs+UQ7efBzWXnal.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The reception area's antiqued, mirrored wall panels supply reflected light to its dark, sophisticated palette. Bold, graphic lines lend definition to the interior, from the carpet's vivid pattern to the walls' painted moldings. The space features a careful balance of masculine and feminine elements, as well as a playful introduction to the lounge's chinoiserie decor."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://maison140.com/" target="_blank">Maison 140 Beverly Hills</a>, a boutique hotel.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.kellywearstler.com/" target="_blank">Kelly Wearstler</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Patrick Cline.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art direction by Michelle Adams.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.lonny.com/magazine/March+April+2012/WwrNBGVtUZd/1#46" target="_blank">Continental Hideaway</a>" written by Robert Leleux.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lonny.com/" target="_blank">Lonny</a> (March - April 2012).</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/AVvXsEhGtDioKfJDBMwuTA-Siuorp4j4XeoluLogUIC4hpcZcGepPU-5D7z3UzqUapZSPQDh5yhBD0ER-Ffn34MZRCrr8_qGjCCt7yEUzAlSUQgvzAXe6452e7S20gDinB33xKjihoGqsncxibs5/s1600/6-feature-shubel-0109-xlg-22939466.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGtDioKfJDBMwuTA-Siuorp4j4XeoluLogUIC4hpcZcGepPU-5D7z3UzqUapZSPQDh5yhBD0ER-Ffn34MZRCrr8_qGjCCt7yEUzAlSUQgvzAXe6452e7S20gDinB33xKjihoGqsncxibs5/s640/6-feature-shubel-0109-xlg-22939466.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Dark cabinetry painted <a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Moore</a>'s Midsummer Night creates a classic Edwardian feeling in the kitchen. Spin barstools from <a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/" target="_blank">Crate and Barrel</a>; light fixtures from Summer House; faucets by <a href="http://www.waterworks.com/" target="_blank">Waterworks</a>."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.stephenshubel.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Shubel</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Jeremy Samuelson.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/power-of-color#slide-7" target="_blank">A California Home Shows Off the Power of Color</a>" by Mimi Reed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>.</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZdB1CRao-D5F7Tmb3hx6jG-jWjvl2vhE7zgFT4XU4FUqisyP8EXTboqfzVlbi3LSktK_AERcF7-f_RjM3iZ3rSivx_UwPCr3nYtNWvsE90q5fQR9XA2avacPtJbJils2bdFhaOS5D7Ag/s1600/photo-house-home-traditional-kitchen-jenniferworts-mgraydon-OCT10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZdB1CRao-D5F7Tmb3hx6jG-jWjvl2vhE7zgFT4XU4FUqisyP8EXTboqfzVlbi3LSktK_AERcF7-f_RjM3iZ3rSivx_UwPCr3nYtNWvsE90q5fQR9XA2avacPtJbJils2bdFhaOS5D7Ag/s640/photo-house-home-traditional-kitchen-jenniferworts-mgraydon-OCT10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Highlight select cabinet doors with contrasting paint. Sleek stainless steel detailing on the range hood puts a contemporary spin on traditional style. In this kitchen designed by Jennifer Worts, a symmetrical layout enhances the timeless appeal of Shakes-style cabinetry. Glass pendants hang like jewels over the large Calacatta marble-topped island, granting a clear view to the backsplash."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Jennifer Worts, <a href="http://jenniferworts.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Worts Design Inc.</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Michael Graydon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1123436287"></span>Glamorous Black and White Kitchen<span id="goog_1123436288"></span></a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.houseandhome.com/" target="_blank">Canadian House and Home</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jAxI0WUY7so2iTMhTA3c5QI1ySZ-8cPl93-qAX9IZBj4YiZHtpTkyx1daKbqn6areT9eAG4kXB8xN7K0yuuTszuOCXtFf55xSaV7AHrgb6kI-YCa7VMWiG3R8ENQVx3tA60ly0pGxQlZ/s1600/item9.rendition.slideshowWideHorizontal.nate-berkus-before-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jAxI0WUY7so2iTMhTA3c5QI1ySZ-8cPl93-qAX9IZBj4YiZHtpTkyx1daKbqn6areT9eAG4kXB8xN7K0yuuTszuOCXtFf55xSaV7AHrgb6kI-YCa7VMWiG3R8ENQVx3tA60ly0pGxQlZ/s640/item9.rendition.slideshowWideHorizontal.nate-berkus-before-10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"[Nate] Berkus painted the existing kitchen cabinetry a high-gloss black by <a href="http://us.farrow-ball.com/" target="_blank">Farrow and Ball</a> and added crown molding and brass pulls; the subway-tile backsplash, Electrolux dishwasher, and marble-top island are new."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.nateberkus.com/" target="_blank">Nate Berkus</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Pieter Estersohn.</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/celebrity-homes/2012/nate-berkus-manhattan-apartment-before-after-renovation-slideshow_slideshow_After_10" target="_blank">Nate Berkus Renovates His Manhattan Duplex</a>" produced by Robert Rufino.</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/AVvXsEiiIfnR_mNwbFWzROMBvIuVgXO6Q_bcPFJJXGj-vmuDokYstpQhdBzwyRvkkfBorFGghJaCKUgmy0Qe9vs_XSw_awNXcda5ztYVwL-52MGMF-2w-uqd2fTnidgYC40iRyD98qudSzqw62JL/s1600/home-interior-design-ED1209--004-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiIfnR_mNwbFWzROMBvIuVgXO6Q_bcPFJJXGj-vmuDokYstpQhdBzwyRvkkfBorFGghJaCKUgmy0Qe9vs_XSw_awNXcda5ztYVwL-52MGMF-2w-uqd2fTnidgYC40iRyD98qudSzqw62JL/s640/home-interior-design-ED1209--004-lgn.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Glossy cabinetry in the butler's hall."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manhattan apartment of Valerie Colas-Thibouville and her family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior decoration by <a href="http://www.milesredd.com/" target="_blank">Miles Redd</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Renovation by Dick Bories and James Shearron, <a href="http://www.boriesandshearron.com/" target="_blank">Bories and Shearron</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.elledecor.com/home-remodeling/a-glamorous-renovation#slide-4" target="_blank">A Glamorous Renovation</a>" by Mitchell Owens.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a> (December 2009).</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQDXK-CqE5lLm0wAgekdr3y2v56dmna0jbTPLooJwRuij7u911QQiLnmMgCMQA9x-QlxfV0kbAa7mHGlwaPIDOveC-W2tV9SQ6WDEMkQQomFjH7ZlMHEnbDYUD5D262UASajrapKy60nH/s1600/kitchen-cabinet-0406_xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQDXK-CqE5lLm0wAgekdr3y2v56dmna0jbTPLooJwRuij7u911QQiLnmMgCMQA9x-QlxfV0kbAa7mHGlwaPIDOveC-W2tV9SQ6WDEMkQQomFjH7ZlMHEnbDYUD5D262UASajrapKy60nH/s640/kitchen-cabinet-0406_xlg.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A collapsible fireman's ladder hooks onto the stainless-steel rail for easy access to the top shelves. Black cabinets in the kitchen offer simplicity and sleekness. They're also a perfect backdrop to display an all-white collection [old Wedgwood and ironstone that belonged to designer Mallory Marshall's mother and grandmother]. Designer Mallory Marshall's kitchen in Maine features these mahogany cabinets finished in black to match her favorite piece in her husband's glass collection: a black bowl by <a href="http://aflippenlife.blogspot.com/2012/11/dale-chihuly-at-virginia-museum-of-fine.html" target="_blank">Dale Chihuly</a>." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maine home of designer Mallory Marshall.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Laura Moss.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/kitchens/dream/kitchen-otm-maine-0406#slide-3" target="_blank">Glowing Simplicity in Penobscot, Maine</a>" by Christine Pittel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (April 2006).</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/AVvXsEgCLnwaznOxnq2_xq0bi4Pbw9IaLsJWzWTii1tIvV-cA7Pa4LroMFC-5z6jLQc8QytDua2bcjlQ0aqV9AGGoY3RI9-P4qaZDZEA75H3l9Z3hVyfEKI5BdhlMTUdxtCmc7mZW6d0gUB-PI5x/s1600/01-hbx-high-gloss-black-kitchen-cabinets-tobin-0513-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLnwaznOxnq2_xq0bi4Pbw9IaLsJWzWTii1tIvV-cA7Pa4LroMFC-5z6jLQc8QytDua2bcjlQ0aqV9AGGoY3RI9-P4qaZDZEA75H3l9Z3hVyfEKI5BdhlMTUdxtCmc7mZW6d0gUB-PI5x/s640/01-hbx-high-gloss-black-kitchen-cabinets-tobin-0513-lgn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A crystal chandelier and high-gloss kitchen cabinets painted <a href="http://us.farrow-ball.com/" target="_blank">Farrow and Ball</a>'s Pitch Black 'remind me of Paris apartments and grand French style,' [designer and homeowner Tobi] Tobin says."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tobi Tobin's Hollywood Hills farmhouse.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://tobitobin.com/" target="_blank">Tobi Tobin</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Karyn R. Millet.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Lisa Cregan.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/modern-farmhouse-design-ideas-0513#slide-2" target="_blank">Light and Reflection</a>" produced by Doretta Sperduto.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (May 2013).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL9mA1oVD1s1VSHeEerwKJyXCFkJXWE1dChBmgQukvZEI80ovKh1WyYiPB6YT1A_KgPw7fMsD_kvcRBhuSJnygtEMtd553pwEQvawi4QCtnYU252AUFfTNXp9LxZ8NUL7Gk4EvnYgLkmx0/s1600/04-hbx-shell-collection-tobin-0513-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL9mA1oVD1s1VSHeEerwKJyXCFkJXWE1dChBmgQukvZEI80ovKh1WyYiPB6YT1A_KgPw7fMsD_kvcRBhuSJnygtEMtd553pwEQvawi4QCtnYU252AUFfTNXp9LxZ8NUL7Gk4EvnYgLkmx0/s640/04-hbx-shell-collection-tobin-0513-lgn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"An assortment of shells adds a natural element to the breakfast room."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tobi Tobin's Hollywood Hills farmhouse.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://tobitobin.com/" target="_blank">Tobi Tobin</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Karyn R. Millet.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Lisa Cregan.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/modern-farmhouse-design-ideas-0513#slide-5" target="_blank">Light and Reflection</a>" produced by Doretta Sperduto.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (May 2013).</span><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVQ6MB8InVCbbA7X5HWQEqhuwSeR4hvTxQblab2vCaz_RrCJz7J0WfXCz87E33E4TBaQTvqzPbjujWgRWdZF_XNFgB-Giw6vW6SmkNYB-qHSuZSq8_U935oMgftLGwzCQPb8w5HpcEwWin/s1600/shellsNO08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVQ6MB8InVCbbA7X5HWQEqhuwSeR4hvTxQblab2vCaz_RrCJz7J0WfXCz87E33E4TBaQTvqzPbjujWgRWdZF_XNFgB-Giw6vW6SmkNYB-qHSuZSq8_U935oMgftLGwzCQPb8w5HpcEwWin/s640/shellsNO08.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Crystal vases feature shells, rather than Christmas ornaments, layering freshness and character into a traditional living room. Black lampshades and a miniature juniper tree look particularly striking on a black and gilt console table."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Angus McRitchie.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://houseandhome.com/design/photo-gallery-christmas-decorating?page=48" target="_blank">Christmas Decorating Ideas</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.houseandhome.com/" target="_blank">Canadian House and Home</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvIVvmj3icL5P_AbbL06KqEbtqrd0hvY9SnLvpaaAo7_k4MQf6z3iwkNKZ4fEUSPW1ENPS2QIfGpF7bqoHF0JTRb0uhvJdvi45G4r-tkP2VxBGQAjJO9-FYJjvZJ9ihlrfa-aKigpwJKoj/s1600/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0103-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvIVvmj3icL5P_AbbL06KqEbtqrd0hvY9SnLvpaaAo7_k4MQf6z3iwkNKZ4fEUSPW1ENPS2QIfGpF7bqoHF0JTRb0uhvJdvi45G4r-tkP2VxBGQAjJO9-FYJjvZJ9ihlrfa-aKigpwJKoj/s640/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0103-lgn.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A print of a painting by Sir Alfred Munnings is displayed above a tray-top table in the library; the crystal decanters were flea-market finds."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Moon Stone Farm, the Lexington, Kentucky, retreat of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Photography by Roger Davies.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/at-home-badgley-mischka-58958#slide-7" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">At Home with Badgley Mischka</a>" by Julia Reed.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a> (September 2009). </span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkySZWXQiu1wxZFNiJsokGCj0qQwEGOmJJBm6OiatlfTiFW2cE76682DOJNuPQfvQ3elDmNishq1bMOzk66ywpweUjga3xwy0xwg_oHHiUqvbnJO1L19UUCMyf-WL1JY1QSLg4fzcI7Ozk/s1600/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0098-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkySZWXQiu1wxZFNiJsokGCj0qQwEGOmJJBm6OiatlfTiFW2cE76682DOJNuPQfvQ3elDmNishq1bMOzk66ywpweUjga3xwy0xwg_oHHiUqvbnJO1L19UUCMyf-WL1JY1QSLg4fzcI7Ozk/s640/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0098-lgn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">"The library shelves are studded with antlers from European hunting lodges and trophies found at flea markets and on eBay; the Windsor chairs are antique; the china is by <a href="http://www.hermes.com/index_us.html" target="_blank">Hermes</a>, and the napkins are by <a href="http://www.leontinelinens.com/" target="_blank">Leontine Linens</a>."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Moon Stone Farm, the Lexington, Kentucky, retreat of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Photography by Roger Davies.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/at-home-badgley-mischka-58958#slide-6" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">At Home with Badgley Mischka</a>" by Julia Reed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" style="display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a> (September 2009). </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pOHMCAwFRpgzCU5q54kFaxzFpgr7gi78HBkSEf4724bPmAGSVL36KqCOshx0PKc9xiXNnIf_s5o2KdpzfP1ETdZ4DQ4WzHdUg4z544uKTKc96yZuBwsfEgM8uDQbTzGe0Vv1pyX0iEu3/s1600/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0097-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pOHMCAwFRpgzCU5q54kFaxzFpgr7gi78HBkSEf4724bPmAGSVL36KqCOshx0PKc9xiXNnIf_s5o2KdpzfP1ETdZ4DQ4WzHdUg4z544uKTKc96yZuBwsfEgM8uDQbTzGe0Vv1pyX0iEu3/s640/luxury-home-design-ED0909-BADGLEY30-0097-lgn.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">"The dining room's rock-crystal chandelier is suspended above a table by <a href="http://www.restorationhardware.com/" target="_blank">Restoration Hardware</a> painted black and surrounded by 1940s chairs that originally came from Churchill Downs; the monogrammed napkins are by <a href="http://www.leontinelinens.com/" target="_blank">Leontine Linens</a>, the candelabra lamps are from Mumbai, and the 19th-century console is Swedish."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Moon Stone Farm, the Lexington, Kentucky, retreat of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Photography by Roger Davies.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/at-home-badgley-mischka-58958#slide-5" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">At Home with Badgley Mischka</a>" by Julia Reed.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a> (September 2009). </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtTsJzVSq_DQPLnQTSur28cy46-BgoBWaOUsh_fUyYf4AHsjSJrW0Mdj7BWq8_3idlOCCVIivqrxepmRNcsYm2RTVkz1fh_EyVHVZxNMfiN3ltpdJ3mJcE-KCyv9CtbVRmtYnwAReWvch7/s1600/library-dark-chandelier-0710-kaihoi-04-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtTsJzVSq_DQPLnQTSur28cy46-BgoBWaOUsh_fUyYf4AHsjSJrW0Mdj7BWq8_3idlOCCVIivqrxepmRNcsYm2RTVkz1fh_EyVHVZxNMfiN3ltpdJ3mJcE-KCyv9CtbVRmtYnwAReWvch7/s640/library-dark-chandelier-0710-kaihoi-04-de.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"[David] Kaihoi built the floor-to-ceiling bookcase himself and painted it high-gloss Black by <a href="http://www.finepaintsofeurope.com/" target="_blank">Fine Paints of Europe</a>. The floor, painted to mimic a rug, is Hale Navy and White Down, both by <a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Moore</a>. 'Big furniture makes a small room seem grander,' says Kaihoi."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">East Village, New York City, apartment of David Kaihoi, his wife Monique Simard, and their daughter.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by David Kaihoi.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/small-apartment-decorating-0710?click=main_sr#slide-4" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Living Big in a One-Bedroom</a>" interview by Barbara King.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" style="color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">House Beautiful</a> (July - August 2010).</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvRkkCyp9pPNqUk5Uj_Mz5-UT2aJp4Vuqvab1nHjU6ierh5NZGc8vfIfiwNm97xGWE1ASY6JrWX9Zx5s2bI2wRBq6Pwh6G0WKndSbFY_WZs7Opxnvo20UjXkqJQhB90wHFFpcwaCvCFe_U/s1600/southern-1-0909-xl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvRkkCyp9pPNqUk5Uj_Mz5-UT2aJp4Vuqvab1nHjU6ierh5NZGc8vfIfiwNm97xGWE1ASY6JrWX9Zx5s2bI2wRBq6Pwh6G0WKndSbFY_WZs7Opxnvo20UjXkqJQhB90wHFFpcwaCvCFe_U/s640/southern-1-0909-xl.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In a Houston house with Georgian bones and siren allure, the drama begins in a foyer swathed in <a href="http://www.phillipjeffries.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Phillip Jeffries</a>’s Lacquered Walls in Eyeliner — a long-lasting vinyl that mimics lacquer and 'fools everyone,' says interior designer Rob Southern. For theatrical contrast, the shield-back English hall chairs are painted <a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Benjamin Moore</a>’s White Dove."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Rob Southern.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Victoria Pearson.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/bold-houston-design?click=main_sr#slide-1" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Bold and Dramatic Colors in a Houston Home</a>" by Mimi Read.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>.</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk0m5OARwhvBFrwUweLlzf9ijBvao0-IeIcKg9jDAnVIngi2OB-o8XsxwD4qGCQwB2QG1I6XaJkYZMD6y_iLfN0FZX23EowVDc3BCwVwRo8Q87UliM7hAM1i0oefDIsFHtpC_lpcM_IASk/s1600/hbx-topol-0511-black-sitting-area-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk0m5OARwhvBFrwUweLlzf9ijBvao0-IeIcKg9jDAnVIngi2OB-o8XsxwD4qGCQwB2QG1I6XaJkYZMD6y_iLfN0FZX23EowVDc3BCwVwRo8Q87UliM7hAM1i0oefDIsFHtpC_lpcM_IASk/s640/hbx-topol-0511-black-sitting-area-de.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" 'I don't like painted Sheetrock, and white walls are sterile. This black patent wallpaper is glamorous and makes the walls disappear. I like light floors with dark walls. The floor reflects the light shining down on it and pops it back up.' " Said by interior designer <a href="http://www.stantopol.com/" target="_blank">Stan Topol</a> regarding the design of his office.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The black patent wallcovering is Rigo by Sancar.</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;">Interview 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/decorating/ideas/how-to-design-room-stan-topol-0411?click=main_sr#slide-11" target="_blank">Stan Topol's Anatomy of a Room</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (May 2011).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHKYDdNST67E_nn8yxVdM2E3QqwFQI0ED418lduLFLC9nVgithOA72-wT_NMgF6gr8suhnWlt8nLlKdTut_lAZG13-t3ip-uHjcNQZPkTHZHnm8GPHCNDKxU-lmtNTmg6af4pqTfYJkgy/s1600/project_08_14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHKYDdNST67E_nn8yxVdM2E3QqwFQI0ED418lduLFLC9nVgithOA72-wT_NMgF6gr8suhnWlt8nLlKdTut_lAZG13-t3ip-uHjcNQZPkTHZHnm8GPHCNDKxU-lmtNTmg6af4pqTfYJkgy/s640/project_08_14.jpg" width="534" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In his 'moody and eclectic' bedroom, [Stephen] Shubel mounted flea-market finds against a black wall. <a href="http://www.deborahbowness.com/shop/us/artists-collection/genuine-fake-books" target="_blank">Genuine Fake Books wallpaper by Deborah Bowness</a> creates the illusion of more space. Comforter and striped pillowcases, <a href="http://www.westelm.com/" target="_blank">West Elm</a>."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior designer Stephen Shubel's 1,450-square-foot California cottage.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.stephenshubel.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Shubel</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Luca Trovato.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Douglas Brenner.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"California Cottage" 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/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (July/August 2012).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMOWIf7RMizJNO9ERQ8TrYQBVUaanydJHwJB8-SkdgyUG_U2dKwkRYO1kbhSSeEGCud-ggRn9AgK3P22yb-gyhjxDMx-tPTa0mC_-IB2hsUrc-Sq1ynaGF7yRESBPTawoUIYpDn9VlknUb/s1600/04-hbx-hidden-washer-and-dryer-pojani-0913-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMOWIf7RMizJNO9ERQ8TrYQBVUaanydJHwJB8-SkdgyUG_U2dKwkRYO1kbhSSeEGCud-ggRn9AgK3P22yb-gyhjxDMx-tPTa0mC_-IB2hsUrc-Sq1ynaGF7yRESBPTawoUIYpDn9VlknUb/s640/04-hbx-hidden-washer-and-dryer-pojani-0913-lgn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The washer and dryer are tucked into cupboards painted in <a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Moore</a>'s Black Latex Chalkboard paint. Basaltina floor time by Rondine."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrew and Yvonne Pojani's bathroom in a 1900s Southborough, Massachusetts, farmhouse.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Andrew and Yvonne Pojani.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Eric Roth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview by Christine Pittel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/rustic-country-bathroom-decor-0913#slide-4" target="_blank">Bath of the Month</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (September 2013). </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxPGOSxGMBhOir5D-OacSHfnVW89-nuOqlj7qoOZPleqY48LeAKk2COM7APOcsfVnoKjpEoOlfjIon8kfe9teLiz0xzuHqrziUIhCJfFrNENl2bpFvp0YIhtvmAGkrAABjlDawI0gYn4H/s1600/ss_102083219.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnxPGOSxGMBhOir5D-OacSHfnVW89-nuOqlj7qoOZPleqY48LeAKk2COM7APOcsfVnoKjpEoOlfjIon8kfe9teLiz0xzuHqrziUIhCJfFrNENl2bpFvp0YIhtvmAGkrAABjlDawI0gYn4H/s640/ss_102083219.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"[The room is] centered on a black-and-white pedestal table. Bold black-striped fabric used for Roman shades and a credenza table skirt repeat the color theme, while warm maple chairs soften the mood. For a dash of drama, window trim, base, and crown moldings were painted gloss black. 'It pops against the eggshell-finish white walls,' [designer L. Jonathan] Savage says."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O'More College of Design Showhouse in Franklin, Tennessee.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by L. Jonathan Savage, <a href="http://www.ljonathansavage.com/" target="_blank">Savage Interior Design</a>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Werner Straube.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/showhouses/charming-southern-showhouse_ss11.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Living on Campus</a>" written by Amy Elbert.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/" style="color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Traditional Home</a> (July - August 2013). </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/AVvXsEgbwgX22Ty51BsUoKtsXc5dPRBCzAXARmn9PGEEt-z33H9lx3lpYsAxt1owoB4TKpO7LZjrlW9to4hoTCycMzdV2DyGQdUGEhiS-X-OHVcqyCi88eki9kDrB_bRwWKqiQYTwWKYdfbapGow/s1600/nov11-yetman-diningroom-besthomes2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbwgX22Ty51BsUoKtsXc5dPRBCzAXARmn9PGEEt-z33H9lx3lpYsAxt1owoB4TKpO7LZjrlW9to4hoTCycMzdV2DyGQdUGEhiS-X-OHVcqyCi88eki9kDrB_bRwWKqiQYTwWKYdfbapGow/s640/nov11-yetman-diningroom-besthomes2011.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Mix modern and traditional to keep the look current. Interior designer Scott Yetman believes that every room should have black in it. . . . In the dining room, a contemporary light fixture combines with a Regency-style table and repro white chairs upholstered with black leather and blue gingham fabric."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quebec holiday home of Scott Yetman and Jean Michel Lavoie.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Scott Yetman.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Monic Richard.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://houseandhome.com/design/photo-gallery-black-rooms?page=9" target="_blank">Photo Gallery: Black Rooms</a>"</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.houseandhome.com/" target="_blank">Canadian House and Home</a>.</span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEajVz7Z3Pv327vVhIswPDZ5QB4OoKQzUvJ8AYnOoxtuvHo15P3jozt1V0DcwxZPWZ-COP9pnBACrz0NbVeqLSOwo2J6mVS6WJUZdz8vbZDYISHCkrVZ3v4my0X_Cuq9db0sHBtQZwHmC5/s1600/ss_102112830.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEajVz7Z3Pv327vVhIswPDZ5QB4OoKQzUvJ8AYnOoxtuvHo15P3jozt1V0DcwxZPWZ-COP9pnBACrz0NbVeqLSOwo2J6mVS6WJUZdz8vbZDYISHCkrVZ3v4my0X_Cuq9db0sHBtQZwHmC5/s640/ss_102112830.jpg" width="544" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Anita Phipps chose black-and-white stripes to enrich the walls of the men's half bath off the main hall. She played up the original checkered-tile floor by dressing windows in a complementary woven fabric. Next, she transformed an antique gold frame into a statement mirror. A black chandelier echoes the existing black pedestal sink."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black paint: "Tricorn Black" by <a href="http://www.sherwin-williams.com/" target="_blank">Sherwin-Williams</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cream paint: "Hemp" by <a href="http://www.c2paint.com/" target="_blank">C2 Paint</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tudor-style manor house built in 1930 in Greensboro, North Carolina.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Anita Phipps, <a href="http://www.aphippsdesigns.com/" target="_blank">A. Phipps Designs</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by John Bessler and Peter Rymwid.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/showhouses/showhouse-Adamsleigh_ss11.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">The Showhouse at Adamsleigh</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" written by Clara Haneberg and Candace Ord Manroe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Home</a>.</span></div>

Black Friday

Tailored. Ageless. Glamorous. Sleek. These are just a few of the adjectives used to describe black in a room. Pair black with white for a cr...

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The Shape of Things in Black and White

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">School may be out for the summer, but I offer a geometry lesson - shapes in black and white . . . </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/AVvXsEgFpFUREhTdkU8SR7kgTZbUeC89x5ErhV2Fy8X3QvUVZPpAMck-2wHloi1Cr9EToBr7inld8rcPWYmm493NKFPz_oMshZiRxAcrewBi4HqGvDWHyzCwd3IMGOyZE1OUSPU3KATjlVC1kcM/s1600/fresh_start_03-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFpFUREhTdkU8SR7kgTZbUeC89x5ErhV2Fy8X3QvUVZPpAMck-2wHloi1Cr9EToBr7inld8rcPWYmm493NKFPz_oMshZiRxAcrewBi4HqGvDWHyzCwd3IMGOyZE1OUSPU3KATjlVC1kcM/s640/fresh_start_03-lgn.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">"Contrasting with reclaimed barn-wood floors, sliding panels made of raw porcelain, silicone and Plexiglas by artist <a href="http://www.margaretboozer.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Margaret Boozer</span></a><span style="background: white;"> separate the dining room from the kitchen and bedrooms."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Apartment in the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Interior design by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.darrylcarter.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Darryl Carter</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Photography by Gordon Beall.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/home-remodeling/a-fresh-start#slide-3" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">A Fresh Start</span></a>" by Elle Decor Staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Metropolitan Home (January 2009).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4G1CA8y60chcKRHe5Hbb1ROjY3OaVZ03jW8ieAfRGdzLRhqAsUEQ8bxzsWDmb4jCxoaUOYFxj0wHIdg9ETeGumDYlmf2wZ54U4pYNFGr5TpSmuhBnkhvQIrCr_UjjBz9UdR6k4dV9EWg/s1600/06_10-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4G1CA8y60chcKRHe5Hbb1ROjY3OaVZ03jW8ieAfRGdzLRhqAsUEQ8bxzsWDmb4jCxoaUOYFxj0wHIdg9ETeGumDYlmf2wZ54U4pYNFGr5TpSmuhBnkhvQIrCr_UjjBz9UdR6k4dV9EWg/s640/06_10-lgn.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The white door leads to a pantry."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://darrylcarter.com/" target="_blank">Darryl Carter</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Darryl Carter's renovation of his parents' kitchen in Potomac, Maryland.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Erik Johnson.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/home-remodeling/family-style#slide-5" target="_blank">Family Style</a>" by Elle Decor Staff.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a>.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8XRU-SxqFPcpF9zXYh83VKemMbi_P90A3g2ubrZhA7Z_gNMbyL26tFNqrvCJvNhaXRFvTJcUnTDF9TujZrGqeRERev8v9vhpebk-WqV-z0vLpz08XZkl7wqJGLR5kJnuQn9W8BmgqHvI/s1600/dcblackbraithwaite-lgn-23197559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8XRU-SxqFPcpF9zXYh83VKemMbi_P90A3g2ubrZhA7Z_gNMbyL26tFNqrvCJvNhaXRFvTJcUnTDF9TujZrGqeRERev8v9vhpebk-WqV-z0vLpz08XZkl7wqJGLR5kJnuQn9W8BmgqHvI/s640/dcblackbraithwaite-lgn-23197559.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Designer Nancy Braithwaite relied on linearity and strong simple colors like black, beige, and gray to create a spa-like tranquility in this home office."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Melanie Acevedo.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/luxury-homes/a-touch-of-black-color-inspiration-for-your-life?click=img_sr#slide-3" target="_blank">Well-Edited: Black Color Inspiration</a>" by Kayla Desroches.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank">Veranda</a> (March 2011).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBwXAXh-4EXibiqSL1IO5_DOzJ4mjaitcV_yAcSs5eU0TH7uYGq1WLikdI2GZyvbfw0rNMSzNHwVfhY4AXwr08g_BdvuAPV_x3YKi-BM8_Qs28g80mt17PI1Tntr5YHTXZS_dryBtZqU/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowWideHorizontal.february-estates-02-franceADFeb2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBwXAXh-4EXibiqSL1IO5_DOzJ4mjaitcV_yAcSs5eU0TH7uYGq1WLikdI2GZyvbfw0rNMSzNHwVfhY4AXwr08g_BdvuAPV_x3YKi-BM8_Qs28g80mt17PI1Tntr5YHTXZS_dryBtZqU/s640/item2.rendition.slideshowWideHorizontal.february-estates-02-franceADFeb2013.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" 'Smooth surfaces, straight edges, sharp curves, polished materials, right angles, clarity and order.' That's how architect Robert Mallet-Stevens described this 1920s villa, which he conceived for fashion designer Paul Poiret. Construction halted when the couturier ran out of funds, but screen siren Elvire Popesco bought the place and hired architect Paul Boyer to finish it."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Property in Mezy-Sur-Seine, France.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo courtesy of Patrice Besse via Architectural Digest.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/ad/real-estate/2013/february-estates-for-sale_slideshow_item2_3" target="_blank">On the Market: February 2013</a>" written by Amanda Friedman.</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> (February 2013).</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/AVvXsEgyX2Z_lcZezhEUkR4iOqoHU3E3guS09S0lXpv3nwZu-Fuk61GND419slCNnkuIzZh_s1ZAH0NkXIf3DOtfu02BSkub5AWzEeuMpZTcK_mukKHFUJJ8R3foIGGYDKMuHJ0EjCsyIgQt5CQ/s1600/12-crisp-stairs-dec0907-xlgHBBetsyBrown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyX2Z_lcZezhEUkR4iOqoHU3E3guS09S0lXpv3nwZu-Fuk61GND419slCNnkuIzZh_s1ZAH0NkXIf3DOtfu02BSkub5AWzEeuMpZTcK_mukKHFUJJ8R3foIGGYDKMuHJ0EjCsyIgQt5CQ/s640/12-crisp-stairs-dec0907-xlgHBBetsyBrown.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Stairs and floors painted<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Benjamin Moore</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>White Dove; and walls painted<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.prattandlambert.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Pratt & Lambert</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Silver Lining. Painting by Jong Mok Lee.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Alabama home.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Interior design by Betsy Brown,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://betsybrowninc.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Betsy Brown Interiors</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Photography by Don Freeman.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/neutrals-are-crisp-0907?click=img_sr#slide-3" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Neutrals Are Crisp</span></a>” by Frances Schultz.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">House Beautiful</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">(September 2007).</span></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglt6Pp24evKfE3QNNg71vYaVVfq13hXeoTOgDjc4xlijWlpXoUeC3_QzR89pAKSXj2T3pjzyKjKpDI7jys1yS40TBztMO6DEFgmuYmCSbw73VZ3YkhkYbYMCZ0xqiBihnBJRpFWpF6GFI/s1600/Decorating-ideas-botbol-ED0510-12-lgn+%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/AVvXsEglt6Pp24evKfE3QNNg71vYaVVfq13hXeoTOgDjc4xlijWlpXoUeC3_QzR89pAKSXj2T3pjzyKjKpDI7jys1yS40TBztMO6DEFgmuYmCSbw73VZ3YkhkYbYMCZ0xqiBihnBJRpFWpF6GFI/s640/Decorating-ideas-botbol-ED0510-12-lgn+%25281%2529.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The master bath is sheathed in slate floor tiles, and the towels are by Olatz."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michel Botbol and Arthur Krystofiak's home in Brookhaven Hamlet, New York</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Renovation by architect <a href="http://www.spatialdiscipline.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Calvert Wright</a>.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Roger Davies.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/home-remodeling/a-barn-rescued-and-reborn#slide-10" target="_blank">A Barn Rescued and Reborn</a>" by Cynthia Kling.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a> (May 2010).</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/AVvXsEgr6VnDY9RXkLg6Aia8_AU8mHJbUqknU2fIYG93gIdyDxI9XvI7RXz0QeB9s9JgEK4HQnvS6Ok58gKNnBm2pzf6gHMr9n97nGlM_VpBb4Pl9IoIIZnmTtRajLnYrpl-knEIjmW3zl7eiA8/s1600/item7.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.delphine-krakoff-new-york-city-11-guest-bathroom-kohler-bisazza-tileAD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6VnDY9RXkLg6Aia8_AU8mHJbUqknU2fIYG93gIdyDxI9XvI7RXz0QeB9s9JgEK4HQnvS6Ok58gKNnBm2pzf6gHMr9n97nGlM_VpBb4Pl9IoIIZnmTtRajLnYrpl-knEIjmW3zl7eiA8/s640/item7.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.delphine-krakoff-new-york-city-11-guest-bathroom-kohler-bisazza-tileAD.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A guest bath is sheathed in <a href="http://www.bisazza.com/" target="_blank">Bisazza</a> tile; the sink is by <a href="http://www.us.kohler.com/us/" target="_blank">Kohler</a>, and the shower and sink fittings are by <a href="http://www.waterworks.com/" target="_blank">Waterworks</a>."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Six-story townhouse in Manhattan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Delphine Krakoff, <a href="http://www.pamplemoussedesign.com/" target="_blank">Pamplemousse Design Inc.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gut renovation by <a href="http://www.olivercope.com/" target="_blank">Oliver Cope Architect</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Bjorn Wallander.</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/decor/2013-07/delphine-krakoff-oliver-cope-new-york-townhouse-slideshow_slideshow_item7_8" target="_blank">Uncommon Vision</a>" produced by Robert Rufino.</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> (July 2013).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Ureev139hZ0dJ6Wrd8GIE231Zy_Lut8-hiYN5FBhf7FzR92M0Wi5TYKZpZ6BU1YyQJp-6hFG_JpC9j1ppuUiSgfS1eyTk_4nR4PNpXA2CDg6ltBuRR1ZZp2O5bDJ_Lv9FXSmL4f6VyU/s1600/12-water-bedroom-dec0607-xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Ureev139hZ0dJ6Wrd8GIE231Zy_Lut8-hiYN5FBhf7FzR92M0Wi5TYKZpZ6BU1YyQJp-6hFG_JpC9j1ppuUiSgfS1eyTk_4nR4PNpXA2CDg6ltBuRR1ZZp2O5bDJ_Lv9FXSmL4f6VyU/s640/12-water-bedroom-dec0607-xlg.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Drop-leaf table from Wertz Brothers in Los Angeles, lamp from Laurin Copen Antiques in Bridgehampton. Striped rug, <a href="http://www.dashandalbert.com/" target="_blank">Dash and Albert</a>. Custom tester bed by Robert Fooshee."</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A Long Island house that draws inspiration from the sea."</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.ruthiesommers.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;">Ruthie Sommers</a>.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Don Freeman.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/colors/water-color-0607?click=main_sr#slide-10" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;">Water Color</a>" by Frances Schultz.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;">House Beautiful</a> (June 2007).</span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gtKpT3TuCyhd0OUA2-ybEXIAv-s9QVWqtPdW264FTjwKi-EXTZ9w_sMgrgXIjx7EYsDTN0D1N9K7mkFhPvZQOcPAhQ0wnOxqbm05qT8OeIKCgu9__T-U6KvNPcwx_RcGV8Jb9LHMR6A/s1600/interior-design-MH1109-wearstler-014-lgnmethome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gtKpT3TuCyhd0OUA2-ybEXIAv-s9QVWqtPdW264FTjwKi-EXTZ9w_sMgrgXIjx7EYsDTN0D1N9K7mkFhPvZQOcPAhQ0wnOxqbm05qT8OeIKCgu9__T-U6KvNPcwx_RcGV8Jb9LHMR6A/s640/interior-design-MH1109-wearstler-014-lgnmethome.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"A pair of Cassina’s<span style="background: white;"> Cab chairs by Mario Bellini in white leather and the bold graphics of a black-and-white abstract </span>painting<span style="background: white;"> complement the warm white walls and bleached walnut floors."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kelly Wearstler's beach house in Malibu.<br />Interior design by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.kellywearstler.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Kelly Wearstler</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Photography by Francois Halard.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/kelly-wearstlers-ultra-glam-beach-house-60399#slide-14" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Kelly Wearstler's Ultra-Glam Beach House</span></a>" by Susan Morgan.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Metropolitan Home (November 2009).</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9GpOXBA_iuSVuKL9nkL5oz998koCHV3ApZ3QLNjbfVOiQqCOVUsdt9vu0hNDBkhgAuyVB3P4qiUtZrr8Kf_m2cMw72J4C2PAusBnKFWFTs-fq5-gtEAcKnJu5_PNJYYMpr5_Yoffh1Q/s1600/hbx-0611-fulk07-black-white-silhouettes-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9GpOXBA_iuSVuKL9nkL5oz998koCHV3ApZ3QLNjbfVOiQqCOVUsdt9vu0hNDBkhgAuyVB3P4qiUtZrr8Kf_m2cMw72J4C2PAusBnKFWFTs-fq5-gtEAcKnJu5_PNJYYMpr5_Yoffh1Q/s640/hbx-0611-fulk07-black-white-silhouettes-de.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"French silhouettes of children" hang on a guest bedroom wall.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by <a href="http://www.kenfulk.com/" target="_blank">Ken Fulk</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Francesco Lagnese.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/house-pictures/san-francisco-victorian-ken-fulk-0611?click=main_sr#slide-14" target="_blank">Dressing Up a San Francisco Victorian</a>" by Douglas Brenner.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (June 2011)</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDaeBpR_xB1GtJtW6HWvZPuI0qPOusCmdBWYLlamzMrwTnFWSBUfxVU_GOpAq0GR8R_Us0j9IZB3Uou-drCSrGSzaG0JGumDcShgWVKzOlHqiDqqrtTMHaqG6lL2utirjwJk-8Q6CrMA/s1600/street15_VMFA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDaeBpR_xB1GtJtW6HWvZPuI0qPOusCmdBWYLlamzMrwTnFWSBUfxVU_GOpAq0GR8R_Us0j9IZB3Uou-drCSrGSzaG0JGumDcShgWVKzOlHqiDqqrtTMHaqG6lL2utirjwJk-8Q6CrMA/s640/street15_VMFA.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>Untitled</i>, Kara Walker, 1996. (Ink-wash drawing.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I saw this work by Kara Walker at the <a href="http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/" target="_blank">Virginia Museum of Fine Arts</a> (Richmond) over the holiday weekend.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"The large 1996 ink-wash drawing, "Untitled," shows what most likely is a house servant about to smother her owner with a pillow. Another woman in the scene, the man's wife, perhaps, stands in the hallway watching with one hand to her mouth. The artist says she imagined the protagonist — a house slave, daughter, or both — as a hero and villain in a 'mercy killing' met with surprise and tacit approval. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">[Artist Kara] Walker, who is black and grew up in Atlanta, is known for her disturbing cut-out silhouettes, often inspired by Southern romance tales and slave narratives, which typically address issues of race, gender, sexuality and violence. . . . </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Adding her work to the permanent [Virginia Museum of Fine Arts] museum collection has been a longstanding goal, says John Ravenal, the curator of modern and contemporary art. '</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I don't expect any controversy really. In some of her works there is much more overt sexuality or violence. But this represents her interests,' Ravenal says. 'It's a particularly bold piece in terms of the contrast between the black, white and gray. And it makes direct reference to her cut paper [works], but it's a framed drawing.' "</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Photo credit: <i>Style Weekly</i>.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/vmfa-scores-slave-inspired-artwork/Content?oid=1872434" target="_blank">VMFA Scores Slave-Inspired Artwork</a>" by Brent Baldwin.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.styleweekly.com/" target="_blank">Style Weekly</a> (April 9, 2013).</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/AVvXsEh3JRSG_pUiGKeQ3z4yuhpe9wU-c2gZFYJ1DGHOe5FwhstvuZPJP6bfGTCRMeWXM1_Mad4hjeTpgS8HhviUUYN66voLXYNqTfTCc-JS1VrZkGMvq6b-q-JL8lCiT810L9c7w0e_wpp6dao/s1600/southern-1-0909-xlHBHouston.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3JRSG_pUiGKeQ3z4yuhpe9wU-c2gZFYJ1DGHOe5FwhstvuZPJP6bfGTCRMeWXM1_Mad4hjeTpgS8HhviUUYN66voLXYNqTfTCc-JS1VrZkGMvq6b-q-JL8lCiT810L9c7w0e_wpp6dao/s640/southern-1-0909-xlHBHouston.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In a Houston house with Georgian bones and siren allure, the drama begins in a foyer swathed in <a href="http://www.phillipjeffries.com/" target="_blank">Phillip Jeffries</a>’s Lacquered Walls in Eyeliner — a long-lasting vinyl that mimics lacquer and 'fools everyone,' says interior designer Rob Southern. For theatrical contrast, the shield-back English hall chairs are painted <a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank">Benjamin Moore</a>’s White Dove."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Rob Southern.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Victoria Pearson.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/decorating/bold-houston-design?click=main_sr#slide-1" target="_blank">Bold and Dramatic Colors in a Houston Home</a>" by Mimi Read.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>.</span></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/AVvXsEiY9TiBKOsc7K03ar2r_xd5TFleZchsp6hvgGaD-bGmfWRAB9hj2VCrJH-aNoTh3sf1N_A3w8khgL1HwaNApWyI1CsKzFoDXI6ouMKcORjHAjENdSF5hYUqbt6fRBzTjEifAP-UR_7Dc-4/s1600/VDX-02-louis-xv-style-chair-matie-cecile-aptel-abstract-painting-0313-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY9TiBKOsc7K03ar2r_xd5TFleZchsp6hvgGaD-bGmfWRAB9hj2VCrJH-aNoTh3sf1N_A3w8khgL1HwaNApWyI1CsKzFoDXI6ouMKcORjHAjENdSF5hYUqbt6fRBzTjEifAP-UR_7Dc-4/s640/VDX-02-louis-xv-style-chair-matie-cecile-aptel-abstract-painting-0313-lgn.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">"Linen for Louis XV-style chair, Lewis and Sheron. Painting, Marie-Cécile Aptel. Photos, Mark Shaw. All rooms,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.benjaminmoore.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Benjamin</span><span style="color: windowtext;"> Moore</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Floral White."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mimi Williams's high-rise apartment in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Mimi Williams,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.mimiwilliamsinteriors.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Mimi Williams Interiors</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Photography by Mali-Azima.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">"<a href="http://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/white-apartment-decorating-ideas-clone-1360946305?click=main_sr#slide-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Well-Lived: Mimi Williams' [sic] Apartment</span></a>" by Kathleen Hackett.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.veranda.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Veranda</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><u1:p></u1:p> <br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7_H8ocVzoSpNBFIU3FMBEIzk4h_DlLj2SSrFIoX7QlEC2rOOM_dxcGQPj6fRsOPsbxZyB2G8hdZnonbfUj0N01M-WK1o64z6Q7fK2wb9paqOoBgyOHD6fpgEA1XyTTiFYcMxnWtRKVk/s1600/kitchen-cabinet-0406_xlgHB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7_H8ocVzoSpNBFIU3FMBEIzk4h_DlLj2SSrFIoX7QlEC2rOOM_dxcGQPj6fRsOPsbxZyB2G8hdZnonbfUj0N01M-WK1o64z6Q7fK2wb9paqOoBgyOHD6fpgEA1XyTTiFYcMxnWtRKVk/s640/kitchen-cabinet-0406_xlgHB.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A collapsible fireman's ladder hooks onto the stainless-steel rail for easy access to the top shelves.  . . . Designer Mallory Marshall . . . keeps her mother's and grandmother's old Wedgwood and ironstone in the pantry."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A rustic, windswept house overlooking the Atlantic Ocean."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Laura Moss.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">"</span><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/kitchens/dream/kitchen-otm-maine-0406?click=main_sr#slide-3" target="_blank">Glowing Simplicity in Penobscot Bay, ME</a>" by Christine Pittel</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a> (April 2006).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlh09AZ3k8p5QIbPgbbdnqboogtO6aamML7dLXgSJHC5HPccyPmMLNpm7CPsZpyemj9GbgLPtIAZTBC-vwGDh48cZKySU99KoIe1oVF7IeG64R6W_xqMQvyzudDG1hBovm1auip2ay9E/s1600/item2.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.delphine-krakoff-new-york-city-07-living-room-knoll-chairs-warren-platner-paintingAD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwlh09AZ3k8p5QIbPgbbdnqboogtO6aamML7dLXgSJHC5HPccyPmMLNpm7CPsZpyemj9GbgLPtIAZTBC-vwGDh48cZKySU99KoIe1oVF7IeG64R6W_xqMQvyzudDG1hBovm1auip2ay9E/s640/item2.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.delphine-krakoff-new-york-city-07-living-room-knoll-chairs-warren-platner-paintingAD.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A painting by Al Held is displayed behind a pair of Warren Platner chairs by <a href="http://www.knoll.com/" target="_blank">Knoll</a>."</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Living room of a six-story townhouse in Manhattan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Delphine Krakoff, <a href="http://www.pamplemoussedesign.com/" target="_blank">Pamplemousse Design Inc.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gut renovation by <a href="http://www.olivercope.com/" target="_blank">Oliver Cope Architect</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by Bjorn Wallander.</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/decor/2013-07/delphine-krakoff-oliver-cope-new-york-townhouse-slideshow_slideshow_item2_3" target="_blank">Uncommon Vision</a>" produced by Robert Rufino.</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> (July 2013).</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTLVou-6rrJY069xUH2AtOlMVL-EEgKRZj2t4bFpbZJM2Yze1kUtfnWEX9efeuQTwHyQtbKiYKvVNkEHNyj27THEZdv6nqUKnzvR398RDruRHqzFGGlTTRoZKYe1HP-ATfS1cKyDk0mLs/s1600/ss_101762849.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTLVou-6rrJY069xUH2AtOlMVL-EEgKRZj2t4bFpbZJM2Yze1kUtfnWEX9efeuQTwHyQtbKiYKvVNkEHNyj27THEZdv6nqUKnzvR398RDruRHqzFGGlTTRoZKYe1HP-ATfS1cKyDk0mLs/s640/ss_101762849.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"Transom and clerestory windows maximize natural light in the nearly 25-foot-high front hall. The curved stairway and chandelier from Visual Comfort ease the linear elements."<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Dorset Two-Tier Chandelier with Torch Arm” by Visual Comfort from <a href="http://www.circalighting.com/" target="_blank">Circa Lighting</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dutch Colonial home on Lake Washington (Seattle).</span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architect: Paul Moon, <a href="http://www.paulmoondesign.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Paul Moon Design</a>.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interior design by Susan Marinello, <a href="http://www.susanmarinello.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Susan Marinello Interiors</a>.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photography by John Granen.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by Amy Elbert.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/design_decorating/howwelive/new-home-comfortable-charm_ss2.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">New Home With Comfortable Charm</a>" produced by Linda Humphrey.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.traditionalhome.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Traditional Home</a>. </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/AVvXsEh7FN2IVWIP_uUr-IHlvh-GDSMzLJ0J8fF7ui-mYa1aRVC1aOS_a6yGCwFSm3_aE4vtF8jgYeSqg1NGKiE9QrFwJq8AfiL03wv1lUI3qyRn8joym8F0or73pxOD-GHhd7YaQRzx3jghyphenhyphenRM/s1600/living-room-design-ideas-ED0110-Gambrel-01-lgn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FN2IVWIP_uUr-IHlvh-GDSMzLJ0J8fF7ui-mYa1aRVC1aOS_a6yGCwFSm3_aE4vtF8jgYeSqg1NGKiE9QrFwJq8AfiL03wv1lUI3qyRn8joym8F0or73pxOD-GHhd7YaQRzx3jghyphenhyphenRM/s640/living-room-design-ideas-ED0110-Gambrel-01-lgn.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"In the front entry of a Southampton, New York, house decorated by <a href="http://www.srgambrel.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; transition: color 0.2s linear;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Steven Gambrel</span></a><span style="background: white;">, the “ice block” wall treatment was inspired by one found at George Washington’s historic home,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.mountvernon.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Mount Vernon</span></a>."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Photography by Eric Piasecki.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/a-hamptons-home-reborn-62227#slide-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">A Hamptons Home Reborn</span></a>" by Ingrid Abramovitch.<br /><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Elle Decor</span></a> (January 2010).<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IqdXYLMP3_H1dUNAsJ4eRHXZDRb5jheqX3u16DUaDoxD1OifpjZttKeKxCAFo1IMLybxlY4KDuhtmJ1jJ4K1BdEK3fEYxLz3_WVMnHsd8b1mbRwFcZWcK2Ut9G6I8g9AbMvHhsIhtaY/s1600/item6.rendition.slideshowVertical.arsl07_jacobsen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IqdXYLMP3_H1dUNAsJ4eRHXZDRb5jheqX3u16DUaDoxD1OifpjZttKeKxCAFo1IMLybxlY4KDuhtmJ1jJ4K1BdEK3fEYxLz3_WVMnHsd8b1mbRwFcZWcK2Ut9G6I8g9AbMvHhsIhtaY/s640/item6.rendition.slideshowVertical.arsl07_jacobsen.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The master bedroom, the only room on the second floor, was angled so that the window across from the bed faces a Nantucket landmark - the 120-foot-high steeple, half a mile away, of the First Congregational Church. 'The steeple is lit up every night,' says the senior Jacobsen, 'and it's something nice to go to sleep with.' "</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New house on Nantucket.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architecture by Hugh Newell Jacobsen, F.A.I.A., <a href="http://www.jacobsenarchitecture.com/" target="_blank">Jacobsen Architecture</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Project architect: Simon Jacobsen, Associate A.I.A., </span><a href="http://www.jacobsenarchitecture.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Jacobsen Architecture</a><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 Robert C. Lautman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Nantucket Reexamined" text by Gerald Clarke.</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> (July 2004).</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/AVvXsEg2Z7NL2P3bmUyGXNdrPuICeKSJ4N5d_MF3_UkZdYuKSNjoJRmUQ_Pjc9RjnoAV3gUGOXaeerFTbdEHikGB4yDzmce4bUwhsroJnOsrP5UvX8jrVnXkierOMv17sfeBFXD5s7zQ0X8hePI/s1600/01-parrish-main-mdnED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Z7NL2P3bmUyGXNdrPuICeKSJ4N5d_MF3_UkZdYuKSNjoJRmUQ_Pjc9RjnoAV3gUGOXaeerFTbdEHikGB4yDzmce4bUwhsroJnOsrP5UvX8jrVnXkierOMv17sfeBFXD5s7zQ0X8hePI/s640/01-parrish-main-mdnED.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"For his series Jacks, now installed outside the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, [sculptor Mel Kendrick] created a group of 11-foot-tall sculptures in black and white. The bottom half of each work is a giant block tunneled with holes. On top sits an oversize version of the titular game piece, seemingly (and impossibly) extracted from the base. To some, it's an engaging formal exercise; to the littlest art lovers, a place begging to be explored."</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"<a href="http://www.elledecor.com/culture/outside-perspective-a-70679?click=main_sr" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Outside Perspective</span></a>" by Laura Regensdorf.<o:p></o:p></span></div><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">Elle Decor</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.</span></div>

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