Designer: Nancy Lancaster
“Understatement is extremely important and crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's make a room look overdone and tiresome.”
Deep Dive: Yellow
From Buckingham Palace, to Nancy Lancaster's Brook Street yellow drawing room at Colefax and Fowler, through to the use of yellow at The White House by designers such as Stéphane Boudin and Kenneth Blasingame, this tale presents grand, opulent yellow designs through history.
Lighting Designer: Richard Kelly
"Lighting is such a large part of the visual arts - architecture, most of all - I'm sure the best we can do today will be inadequate tomorrow"
Designer: Louis Comfort Tiffany
"Color is to the eye what music is to the ear."
Lighting: Play Of Brilliants
Probably one of the most powerful influences in the elements and principals of design, lighting plays a phenomenal impact on the mood, enjoyment and visual aesthetic of an interior design scheme.
Inzik Tiles: Tulip Designs From Turkey
Defined by the prominent use of strong blues, bursts of reds, white, and often turquoise, this colour palette was originally an homage to the Turkish craftmakers’s Oriental neighbours, China, and the Ming dynasty ceramics.
Dorothy Draper
“If it looks right, it is right,” Dorothy Draper
Where Art and Interiors Décor Fuse, At the Bar
The history of wall murals in interior design took an interesting turn in the early twentieth century, when a number of fine American hotels and hospitality establishments approached famous artists to create huge artworks to lavish their interiors.
Robert Couturier
“I’m completely addicted to luxury. I have no ability for anything else.” Robert Couturier
Billy Baldwin
“If a client wants a nineteenth-century Gothic library, it is up to me to create the best nineteenth-century Gothic library ever done, whether I like it or not.” Billy Baldwin