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"decorator" Definitions
  1. (especially British English) a person whose job is painting the inside walls of buildings and putting up wallpaper
  2. (especially North American English) a person whose job is designing the inside of houses by choosing colours, carpets, furniture, etc; an interior decorator

394 Sentences With "decorator"

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Great Christmas Light Fight blows that attitude up to its natural, over-the-top conclusion, pitting heavyweight decorator against heavyweight decorator for a gigantic cash prize.
She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator, and marriage counselor.
Martyn Lawrence Bullard, the family's interior decorator, picked it out.
Then, she met a decorator who wasn't booking enough business.
These were jobs for a decorator and potentially a contractor.
She was previously married to builder and decorator Sam Cooper.
Allen was previously married to builder and decorator Sam Cooper.
She's a decorator and I trust her opinion and taste.
Klein's survey of Matisse as a decorator is factual, not speculative.
You operate neglected living rooms in search of an interior decorator.
Mica Ertegun has been here, and she is a great decorator.
In the early 1960s, he was hired by the office of Keith Irvine, a well-known decorator, but he left less than a year later to take over the clients of a young decorator who had died.
If I weren't a musician, I would love to be a decorator.
It's "decorator-friendly" but "offers no insight into anything at all" (Saltz).
The current iteration, however, required an outsider: the British decorator Ilse Crawford.
Probably not, but I could see a carpenter or home decorator using it.
And covering the contents of our bedroom with these paint-splattered decorator sheets.
"We've always been interested in modern architecture," said Ms. Silberman, an interior decorator.
The makeover, dreamed up by interior decorator Jonathan Adler, is a wanderluster's dream.
Dodging trends is the trend, said Taylor Bliss, a 28-year-old decorator.
The decorator David Hicks was a frequent client, as was Hubert de Givenchy.
When the decorator was in top form, few could resist his madcap charm.
The bride's mother is an antiques dealer and interior decorator in New York.
"Lela is relentless," said Celerie Kemble, the decorator and Ms. Rose's longtime chum.
I have a small breakdown about decorating and decide to hire a decorator.
Take the urchin and decorator crabs, which wear other organisms as hats and jackets.
Kitson lived in a cottage on Sutton Place, and was his personal interior decorator.
She has just officially hired interior designer Tham Kannalikham as the White House decorator.
Trump and her son must be closely coordinated with the first lady's interior decorator.
He was wearing stained overalls and mentioned something about being a painter and decorator.
Apfel has become a nonagenarian fashion icon after decades as a professional interior decorator.
"I stay for the weekend with [interior decorator] David and Pamela Hicks," Rose wrote.
Jeffrey Bilhuber, a Manhattan interior decorator, thinks we should embrace, not reject, the past.
In Venice, the group staged a luncheon with the dealer and decorator Axel Vervoordt.
We're heading to Atlanta to meet with my wedding decorator to decide on the decor.
Working with cake decorator Abby Lee Wilcox, Yeatts created what looks like a massive boulder.
Los Angeles decorator and stylist Estee Stanley's roster of A-list clients speaks for itself.
The wedding coordinator, the decorator and the food, and everyone were super eager to work.
Always a keen decorator, she says she was inspired by a childhood spent in Italy.
He was so excited to furnish it and asked around about hiring an interior decorator.
Yet in overemphasizing Burne-Jones the decorator, the show offers nothing psychologically about its subject.
I would have to start with my mother, Vessie Lucas, who is an interior decorator.
That's when he called interior decorator and his "Queer Eye" co-star Thom Filicia for advice.
They'd also get the help of a professional photographer and an interior decorator provided by Airbnb.
One lazy solution would be to employ a decorator to acquire an aesthetically pleasing instant collection.
Our cake decorator designed a cake based on what she thought she heard the customer order.
To be fair, she's also a decorator who has worked with Paris Hilton and other celebs.
Unless you have a decorator on speed dial, completely remodeling your cooking space is probably unrealistic.
Set decorator Rena DeAngelo included the painting in an attempt to highlight Graham's impressive art collection.
They called their decorator friend and told her to return the furniture for Andrew's new room.
She was also very good friends with the decorator William Haines, so he was advising her.
Deborah Siegel, the show's set decorator, listened to this absurd offer and had an instant reaction.
Liz is a fancy interior decorator, whose work takes her to exotic places like Greenwich, Conn.
Mr. Ward, 51, a decorator, concedes he might have been a bit tipsy at the time.
"I told her I'm not like a decorator," Mr. Bufarini recalled, sounding both peeved and guilty.
"The LED lighting has left a lot to be desired," said Jill Vegas, an interior decorator.
There is a generous, though tasteful, use of diner decorator staples like vinyl, Formica and chrome.
If you need a crane, maybe [hiring a decorator and renting] is the way to do it.
In fact, many students — particularly those from Mississippi — would go as far as enlisting an interior decorator.
From live-edge dining tables to modern sectional sofas, it offers virtually anything a home decorator needs.
Kendall has also started picking up some items an amateur decorator likely wouldn't find on their own.
"My interior decorator, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, has been a huge help in finding unique pieces," she says.
" As for the decorator and designer, Jo has her eyes on the Big Apple: "New York City.
Every new job site means a contractor who will assume I am the assistant, decorator or intern.
My Space Name Michael S. Smith Age 52 Occupation Interior designer, White House decorator for the Obamas.
A competitive Airbnb host who hires a cleaner and a decorator in Queens creates work for locals.
Her father, Zanna, was an architect and homebuilder; her mother, the former Ruth Detwiler, was a decorator.
"The opposition is a joke," said out-of-work decorator Francisco, 32, declining to give his surname.
The Labor Department reports monthly inflation statistics for "clocks, lamps and decorator items" in the United States.
Christopher Gibbs (1938–2018), antiques dealer, interior decorator, and tastemaker who worked closely with the Rolling Stones.
The father had been a decorator in Syria and had put all his artistry into his new home.
Nancy Reagan and her interior decorator, Ted Graber, labored over the redecoration of the second and third floors.
Abbas Kiarostami was born on June 20103, 1940, in Tehran, where his father was a painter and decorator.
In terms of image-making the guy is fantastic, and as a decorator he's up there with Twombly.
Yeisley, an interior decorator who specializes in window treatments, spread the word through her circles of sewing friends.
Her father, Jay, was a produce broker, and her mother, the former Kathryn Zelanus, was an interior decorator.
The interior decorator Beata Heuman perched on an antique teak step inside her Ravenscourt Park studio and showroom.
But how many throw pillows and succulents can an amateur decorator possibly go through until running out of options?
The auction house's upcoming October sale seems to have taken an aesthetic hint from President Donald Trump's interior decorator.
Especially since there's "one amazing decorator and one person who has no idea what they are doing," Kressley jokes.
According to interior decorator Martin Amado, you don't have to spend a fortune to give your home a makeover.
That would of course be very handy for any interior decorator, but ordinary shoppers can make it work, too.
As any decorator knows, a room is never finished, and there's always an opportunity to elevate your decor game.
The furnishings and accessories were in the finest taste, and the place could've been done by a professional decorator.
"Still, Nina came out head held high," said Robert Couturier, an interior decorator with an international profile and clientele.
"So Diane plays an interior decorator who's just retired to Paris, and one day she decides to join Instagram."
Georgia Somary: I was a set decorator, designing film sets and doing a bit of performance stuff for friends.
"My interior decorator Martyn Lawrence Bullard found this gigantic fur rug for Mason's room at my old house," Kardashian explains.
The curator works closely with the White House interior decorator and the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.
The reactionary and radical '80s are being celebrated at an Upper East Side institution, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House.
"Making them in increments of 12 as they sold out each time," Publix cake decorator Kelly Higginbotham wrote on Instagram.
She and Kris enlist the help of a decorator to find things like giant sofas for the former NBA star.
But Mr. Smith, the Obamas' decorator, remains skeptical that a "maximalist" revolution is about to transform today's vanilla-white interiors.
According to her LinkedIn, Brown worked as an interior decorator at the Northport, AL store called Gracefully Done for two years.
Not so, according to Nate Berkus, who came up under the media magnate as a guest decorator and later, close friend.
Every weekend brings some sales worth a peek for the constant decorator, but this weekend is one for the decorating procrastinator.
Decorator Nathan Turner is the master of old-school California style, and counts Adrian Grenier and Amanda Peet among his clients.
"My aunt was a great interior decorator and had a huge influence on me and my home style," Sweeney, 40, says.
If you're the the decorator crab, you simply grab whatever sea plants you can find and use them to disguise yourself.
Though she did receive some help from decorator Lori Holprin, who was referred to the couple by Kobe Bryant's wife, Vanessa.
Accusing the holiday decorator of "VANDALISM!" the person who posted this complaint was clearly not in the mood for holiday cheer.
"The industrial look and the mid-century," suggests Natascha Folens, an interior decorator and Airbnb consultant in the Washington, DC area.
The Kips Bay Decorator Show House is open through June 9 at 19 East 61st Street; $35, 212-755-5733, kipsbaydecoratorshowhouse.org.
"I guess I'm in denial," said Rebecca Chambers, 31, a cake decorator who had been hired there when she was 19.
The deep, rich colors promoted for years by companies like the decorator favorite Farrow & Ball, it seems, are finally going mainstream.
Kris Moran, a Brooklyn-based film set decorator, lived in Asbury Park for several years in her youth and visits regularly.
"I used to beat myself up over it, but I don't anymore," said Erin Gardner, a cake decorator in New Hampshire.
When the architect and decorator Charles Percier (212-21) designed for Napoleon, he used materials like marble, bronze and gilded wood.
But because Rudnick's characters — an interior decorator, a bartender, a chorus boy in "Cats" — are professionally amusing, so is the result.
Set decorator Carolyn Louks, part of the design team that reinvigorated the billionaire businessman's Seattle penthouse for the steamy sequel, out Feb.
Eight months ago she launched a career as an interior decorator with a model room for New York's Lord & Taylor department store.
Unlike his predecessors, Trump hasn't named a decorator to assist in redesigning and personalizing his private living quarters and the Oval Office.
Salvatore, an actor and singer, met Cook, an interior decorator, when he moved into her West Hollywood apartment complex four years ago.
Meet Anise, a music-education student voting in Pennsylvania — a swing state — and Kiera, a cake decorator and artist voting in California.
About five years ago, I was working as a decorator and I had fallen off of a ladder and broken my wrist.
Brown also worked as a freelance makeup artist and hairstylist, and interior decorator at Gracefully Done in her hometown of Northport, Alabama.
"Madeline was always going to be traditional because she's just that kind of a gal," says set decorator Amy Wells to People.
"She's the designer and decorator," Alison tells Ezra (Ian Harding) and Aria (Lucy Hale) of Spencer's work at the Lost Woods Resort.
Heather Govan, 28, a decorator, said cheap labor helped big businesses by keeping costs down, but not self-employed people like her.
This information overload "leads to complete paralysis," said Jill Vegas, an interior decorator and the author of "Speed Decorating" (Taunton Press, 2009).
I am not an interior decorator, but I'm sure having your walls full of books looks very impressive to your dinner guests.
She remained lying on the ring floor, dying, while the young cake decorator was declared the winner and presented with a trophy.
Yeatts worked with Abby Lee Wilcox, a cake decorator and fellow students at CIA, to create and hatch the six individual eggs.
It's about a prima donna cake decorator thinking that he can control what happens to his "art" after it leaves his workshop.
A sought-after interior decorator, furniture designer and curator, he does private homes, yachts and planes for clients from Paris to Tokyo.
You can be the best interior decorator in the world, but if the lightning isn't working, it's not going to look good.
One of my favorite design books is "Jacques Grange: Interiors" by Pierre Passebon, which showcases the work of the renowned French decorator.
A fellow San Francisco Decorator Showcase masterpiece, chosen in 2017, is also for sale just three blocks away at 2698 Pacific Ave.
That Venetian lamp with Fortuny fabric was something that Greg [Grande, Friends set decorator] found in the prop house at Warner Brothers.
The scene was designed by the brilliant Sarah Greenwood with her great decorator Katie Spencer, who created all those beautiful music boxes.
Now, she's a successful interior decorator who returns home to Evergreen and finds herself taken with the place even as an adult.
There was a pair of ancestral portraits, and the decorator had put this big swath of white oil paint over their mouths.
Everyone's favorite farmhouse-style decorator is celebrating her 40th year of life today — as if we needed another reason to share our obsession.
The popular décor destination, known for its huge selection of affordable (and occasionally offbeat) finds, is a favorite resource of any budget decorator.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama worked with decorator Michael S. Smith to update their personal quarters, which were later featured in Architectural Digest. 
The interiors just underwent a 15-month renovation by renowned decorator Tony Ingrao, whose clients include Howard Stern, Kevin James, and Goldie Hawn.
WATCH: However, he takes full credit for the concept and design of the place: "I didn't need an interior decorator," he says, proudly.
TONI CIMINO, Friend and floral decorator known as Suzette I met him when he was 215 or 21986, and he was a milliner.
The set decorator goes out the next day [Thursday] with the prop people, and they prop the furniture and the pictures and whatever.
A leading proponent of the so-called American English country house style, Mr. Buatta was at one point the country's most famous decorator.
That report revealed that his wife, Ann Scott, an interior decorator by trade, controlled accounts that might exceed the value of her husband's.
As a modernist, how did you react to the 19th-century decorator Eugène Lami's take on the Louis XV and Louis XVI styles?
Bryan is a patient decorator with guitar, never overpowering an arrangement, and as a rhythm section, Felber and Sonefeld are insistent but amiable.
Simon, who had been in Morocco for over 40 years, had by turns been a decorator, an actor, a hotelier and a conservationist.
In the early 1960s, Mr. Loeb hired the revered decorator Sister Parish to design the interior, and most of her touches remain today.
The upcoming reboot will follow Lizzie as a 30-year-old who works as an apprentice to a fancy New York City decorator.
More than 2,000 Ikea products are currently available in the app, so you can let your inner Property Brother thrive and play interior decorator.
Some of this can be attributed to budget concerns and the fact that I don't have a decorator assembling ceramic mosaics in every room.
Noriko Okada, a 66-year-old interior decorator, said she voted for a Japan Communist Party candidate to show her opposition to constitutional revision.
After graduating from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2000, Hyla Frank got a job working as an assistant for an interior decorator.
History buffs may remember that Jackie Kennedy called on the legendary (and eccentric) decorator Sister Parish to refresh the White House in the 1960s.
Celebrity interior decorator Martin Amado is at your service with tips to revitalize your home office and closet, two busy spaces where clutter thrives!
But this season, starring the charming Alabama native and interior decorator Hannah Brown as the Bachelorette, that claim maybe, just maybe, could be true.
The interior decorator, who fends off all manner of advances from her clients, wants nothing more than to be carried into the playboy's lair.
An earlier version of this article misstated the number of design firms whose work is on display at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House.
Unicorns aren't just for pool floats — Haught said she suggests using with these Dollar Decorator Unicorn Wall Stickers to make your rooms more cheerful.
I think the genius of a good decorator or architect is to suss out the dreams of the client and bring them to reality.
His sister works in the deli, his cousin's mother works at the front end and his girlfriend is a cake decorator in the bakery.
Kips Bay Decorator Show House Contributors to the 219th annual show house include the designers Ken Fulk, Nick Olsen and Robert A. M. Stern.
That may sound like an exaggeration, but the property actually is in a sense — it was chosen for the 2017 San Francisco Decorator Showcase.
"You're talking to a decorator, so the combination of furniture in my house is an accumulation, a collection, a lot of things," she said.
"She refused to allow cancer to take her down into depression or despair," Gunn, a former interior decorator who lives in Arnold, Maryland tells PEOPLE.
Courteney Cox is a self-described design obsessive, but it took a partnership with Hollywood decorator Trip Haenisch to bring her "dream house" to life.
She was the set decorator for "Listen Up Phillip" shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, and "People, Places, Things" shown there in 2015.
"If a professional cake decorator were to see the latte cake, they'd be like 'Oh, that's no big deal, I could do that,'" he explained.
He is the designer, woodworker, decorator of the themed karaoke rooms in back, and propmaster of the retro lounge that's dressed in David Lynch red.
As a decorator, he brought a bit of color to the windows of Nazi Germany, and then bought himself a Leica to photograph his friends.
Before the foundation acquired the site, the institute space was the showroom of the French decorator Paul Follot, a figure of the Art Deco movement.
The living room, which was designed by her longtime decorator Stephen Shadley, includes Midcentury furniture, fine art and a sophisticated black-and-white color scheme.
Gates's decorator, the New York-based Thierry Despont, duly found a place, and they were sold for a price that Mr. Chevalier declined to divulge.
Her new home, an 11,000-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles with 6 bedrooms and 10 baths, was furnished in part by a set-decorator friend.
The middle section, a "crime story", sees Leo settled in late-1950s Reykjavik as a ceramics decorator, embroiled in a murder plot with a "philatelic werewolf".
The spectacular range of colors will have even the most conservative decorator considering painting their front door bubblegum pink, cherry red or a high-gloss navy.
Later that week, the office of the first lady named Laotian-American interior designer Tham Kannalikham as the official decorator of the Trump's private living quarters.
The decorator found every piece of furniture, decor, art and personal finishing touches to outfit the space, and she shared a few of her shopping secrets.
"He wasn't a decorator, he was a creator of places, which is exactly what we try to do," says the Studio KO co-founder Olivier Marty.
Kips Bay Decorator Show House Now in its 44th year, the annual show house demonstrates what's possible when top interior designers let their imaginations run wild.
In 1942, the architect and decorator Samuel Marx, in step with the patriotic spirit of the war years, turned back the clock to the Colonial era.
As we first reported ... the Obamas are heading to the Palm Springs home of Costos and his husband, Michael Smith, who's been the White House decorator.
Originally trained as an interior decorator, Calderone's food photos garnered such a positive response that she expanded her purview to encompass recipes, chef collaborations, and tablescapes.
Kris brings it up later with Kim, explaining that she brought Faye in to help but Kourtney, "Designer, Decorator, Home enthusiast extraordinaire," is getting carried away.
A Moroccan design scheme by the Hollywood interior decorator Martin Lawrence Bullard differentiates Hotel Californian from the hacienda-style resorts that dot the Southern California coast.
One of the group's founders, Kevin Morland, a painter and decorator, decided that his time and skills could help those in need more than his money.
The decorator Bunny Williams, who grew up in Virginia with a father who raised beagles, opts for performance fabrics like those made by Schumacher and Perennials.
That may be because these British designers are actually from all over the globe; a society pedigree is no longer required to call yourself a decorator.
Hannah Beachler grew up in Centerville, Ohio the daughter of an interior decorator mother, living in a house built from the ground up by her architect father.
Richardson and Harris' approach helps prove her point: The pair did not hire a decorator, but instead scored good deals from HomeGoods, T.J. Maxx, Target, and Marshalls.
Made in Taroudant, Morocco by ex-pat decorator François Gilles, these totes ($23), made partially of recycled plastic, add flair when taking a spin to the market.
Made in Taroudant, Morocco by ex-pat decorator François Gilles, these totes ($2125), made partially of recycled plastic, add flair when taking a spin to the market.
The Verdict: The Gaineses truly brought their best designs to the Target table, offering plenty of stylish and inexpensive buys for every type of at-home decorator.
The decorator, known for his layered, textured décors featuring craftsmanship finishes, has designed layouts and decoration for the public spaces and layouts for the apartments and penthouses.
It remained so until the early 20th century American decorator Elsie de Wolfe came along to inject a bit of decorative frivolity into those gloomy 1890s mansions.
"For so long there have been facsimiles used in hotels but guests today want and expect more," said Amr Mandour, the studio's lead decorator on the project.
Halfway through a meal at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, he also found Oesterlund himself, who strode out onto the dining patio with the interior decorator.
After he opened his own business in 1963, a seminal event was a trip to London, during which he met the decorator John Fowler of Colefax & Fowler.
He led us on a river path to the contemporary tasting room with gleaming wood floors, which the notable French interior decorator Andree Putman designed in 1992.
Scroll through this look at this year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase, where Bay Area designers were unleashed on rooms in an 18,000-square-foot Presidio Heights mansion.
"A Life in Decoration," by Keith Irvine, the New York-based English decorator who was one of Mr. Buatta's first employers, had been inscribed by its author.
And she also had famous, taste-making cronies: her friendships with figures like the architect and decorator Renzo Mongiardino and the writer Truman Capote were well known.
The reboot follows 30-year-old Lizzie, who is working as an apprentice to a fancy New York City decorator and navigating life in New York City.
According to Forbes, she sent checks to her friend and interior decorator Bryan Huffman under the guise that she was buying antiques ('chairs', 'bookcase', and 'antique Charleston table').
You don't need to be a great baker or decorator to simply make a plain cupcake and put Fancy Sprinkles on it, and it looks super high-end.
It's also particularly great if you need help choosing the best pieces for your space but an interior decorator isn't in your budget (they cost twice as much).
"Opposition people can't even put up election posters, can't open election offices," said Musharraf Hussain Sharafat, 50, who works as a decorator at tents put up for weddings.
As part of the annual Celebrities At Home issue, the magazine has featured the two reality stars' homes, which were both designed by celebrity decorator Martyn Lawrence Bullard.
Jarrett Hedborg, an interior decorator from Los Angeles, worked in Saudi Arabia over the course of two decades and became close with members of the educated, westernized elite.
During the week, he worked as an interior decorator in Manhattan and frequented the city's gay bars, a routine that had recently plunged him into the Stonewall uprising.
"It was a little bit like when you decorate a house, and the decorator doesn't want you to go in until it's all staged for you," Hoberman said.
When it was his wife's turn, Stacy faced a woman, a local cake-decorator who weighted sixty pounds less than Stacy, but was also ten years her junior.
"People like to hear that they can eat the entire unicorn," Alexis Ong, owner of Cakes by Lexi and decorator at New York's Butter Lane Cupcakes, tells me.
If the process is truly overwhelming, it can be worthwhile to bring in an organizer, decorator or appraiser who's willing to be paid by the hour to assist.
The seven-bedroom home at 2820 Scott Street has sat idly on the market since 2008, the same year it was chosen for the San Francisco Decorator Showcase.
The home was chosen for the 2008 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, which saw the city's top designers swoop into the property and transform each room into a masterpiece.
Laure-Isabelle Mellerio, an interior decorator by training and a freshly minted gemologist, quietly took over as artistic director of the Mellerio dits Meller design studio last summer.
The huddle became so prominent culturally it even went through a period of renovation, like a living room redesigned into a more open concept by a home decorator.
The "F— You" singer and 40-year-old Cooper, a builder and decorator, married in 2011 and split in 2016; they have two daughters, Ethel, 6, and Marnie, 5.
And just as a cake decorator might do, she swirls figure-8 shapes through the concoction with the back of her color brush until the design is just right.
Hillary Clinton responded to the patrician tastes of George H. W. and Barbara Bush by bringing in an Arkansas decorator with a penchant for over-the-top Victorian drapery.
Sasan Sabermotlagh, a 34-year-old decorator in Tehran, said he was initially "100 percent" against the war, but he and many others he knows had changed their mind.
Chan, a bespectacled 28-year-old interior decorator, says that his ideology springs from China's broken promises toward Hong Kong and that claims he might destabilize China are preposterous.
Johnston's mother, Della Mae Johnston, and the man she was dating both made their living in this growing industry: she as a set decorator, he as a stunt double.
Another similar home, a mansion chosen for the 2017 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, is listed for $26.8 million about a mile to the east in the Pac Heights neighborhood.
So a decorator, an artist or a plumber would have a higher tax rate than an owner of a decorating business, an art shop or a plumbing supply store.
She purchased the home eight years ago for just under $5 million and worked with legendary decorator Mario Buatta, who counts Mariah Carey among his clients, to restore the place.
But BuzzFeed News has identified about $280,000 that arrived in Project Veritas's coffers from smaller donors — a tomato tycoon, a retired finance executive, an interior decorator — from all over America.
"We've all seen the horrendous pictures on the news, it's shocking," said Amanda Kinross, a cake decorator from rural Victorian town Bendigo, who began the campaign with a Facebook post.
Rachel Dyke used to work as a freelance cake decorator for Charm City Cakes Los Angeles — you know, the shop owned by Duff Goldman of Food Network's Ace of Cakes?
The lightsaber up for auction was used by actor Mark Hamill's young Skywalker character in "Star Wars: A New Hope" and was designed by Oscar-winning set decorator Roger Christian.
Upon turning 80, the English decorator/arbiter/cabaret singer/socialite/poison pen gave up his storied country house, sold everything in it, published a book and opened a new chapter.
"Their hope was to create a Venetian-style villa, so it has beautiful detailing," Libby Cameron, a New York-based decorator who handled the interior design, said of the owners.
These cotton pajamas are adorned with a vibrant green banana leaf motif that was inspired by the Martinique print that the decorator Don Loper created for the hotel in 1942.
When the mother of the current owner, who does not want to be identified, bought the chateau, she entrusted the decor to Dick Dumas, an influential interior decorator and antiques dealer.
Interns learn how to do a little bit of everything to help out; in one day, they may go from graphic designer to IT person to decorator to field marketing representative.
Maybe you want your pad to look a little more elevated (and a lot more Snappable), but don't have the cash to splash out for an interior decorator, because who does?
He's the face of Gucci Tailoring's latest campaign and poses in a series of printed suits and tuxedos on set in the L.A. mansion of eclectic Hollywood interior decorator, Tony Duquette.
He is the son of Susan M. Widger of Nantucket and Thomas A. Watson of Nunda, N.Y. The groom's mother retired as an interior decorator from Marine Home Center on Nantucket.
An interior decorator and landscape designer as well, he frequented intellectual and artistic circles that included the painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun and the Enlightenment philosopher Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin.
Though the decorator was originally brought on to design a custom piece of furniture for the project, the pair had a creative connection and he ended up outfitting the whole space.
As Ziggy asks questions about his unknown father, Jane gives up searching for the man after an awkward encounter with an interior decorator who she thought might have been her abuser.
The same was true for designer David Wasco and his wife and collaborator, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, a set decorator, while creating ''La La Land,'' even though they shot L.A. as itself.
"This whole business is largely in cash," from the caterer and musicians to the jeweler and ornate saris, said Satish Arora, a caterer and decorator in Faridabad, a city near Delhi.
During their visits, the Obamas have often stayed at the home of James Costos, the ambassador to Spain, and Michael S. Smith, the White House decorator, according to the Desert Sun.
As the saying goes, money doesn't buy taste—nor does it buy a decorator with taste, and never has that been so clear as in this week's celebrity real estate news.
In 1989, a year after Basquiat's death, at twenty-seven, from a heroin overdose, Haring had a decorator put it into a fancy gilt frame and hung it above his bed.
For her, "originality of character always mattered more than splashy, cashy decorator schemes (though she included those, too)," Mr. Thomas, the current editor, said in an internal email to staff members.
Poon worked as an art director in a fancy advertising agency, then as an interior decorator for a Saudi princess, then ran a quilt shop, and, eventually, came back around to food.
In the first episode of Netflix's Behind the Scenes podcast, set decorator Jess Royal details the amazing lengths she went to in order to build a set that didn't make the cut.
"I go in with two of my buyers and everyone gets a cart and we start a wagon train," set decorator Amy Wells tells PEOPLE of her shopping process at the store.
So they ask the decorator-carpenter duo to physically move it from one plot of land to another in addition to restoring the home— a trick the Napiers aren't too sure about.
Although running a non-profit wasn't always in her life plan, decorator Terry Grahl found her calling when she was asked to paint a wall at a shelter for women and children.
We don't exactly have a budget to hire a decorator for this seasonal makeover, we've looked into the next best thing: Affordable pieces that look a lot nicer than what they cost.
So too did the famed 20th-century decorator John Fowler and the maverick designer David Hicks, who used a drab hue for the walls of his entrance hall in the late 1970s.
Pierre-Yves Rochon, decorator of hotels including the Four Seasons George V in Paris and the Peninsula in Shanghai, designed the interiors, replacing many of the usual sales desks with round tables.
OBITUARIES An obituary on Wednesday about the interior decorator Mario Buatta misstated the year he became chairman of the annual antiques and design fair in Manhattan now known as the Winter Show.
"If he was just a regular guy, a teacher, doctor, plumber, decorator, then I'm confident that he'd have been deported from any country to the U.S. a long time ago," he said.
Essentially, the team fans out across the globe and explores industries, to collect what they refer to as "proof points" — from car shows, on the runways, in decorator showcases and so on.
After Rodriguez bought one and a half acres in 2003, he hired architects Ralph Choeff and Paul Fischman and interior decorator Briggs Edward Solomon to design something perfect for himself and his family.
One of the items that the production had the hardest time nailing down were the lightsabers, until set decorator Roger Christian came across a box of camera flashes from the 2200s and '2300s.
Unlike Michael Smith, the Obamas' interior decorator, Kannalikham had the rare luxury of five months with no first lady in the White House to be looking over her shoulder at every design decision.
Soon after, Khaled Omar Harrah, a former home decorator and father of two, pulled a 10-day-old baby, who had been buried for 16 hours, out of the wreckage of a building.
She seemingly has it all – her dream job as an assistant to a fancy New York City decorator, her dream guy and a picturesque Brooklyn apartment – but things aren't always as they seem.
If you prefer to draw inspiration from places a bit more highbrow than the aforementioned HGTV (no shade to Chip and Joanna!), consider Bikoff's work at last year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House.
When his father insisted on installing electric hand-dryers and Borax soap dispensers in the bathrooms of their home, his mother agreed, provided their decorator could enamel them in pink and turquoise pastels.
On June 21 he played at a wine-fueled outdoor concert at the home of the decorator Kelly Wearstler (it was sponsored by Airbnb, but, alas, her place is not available for rent).
At Christmas Decor, a professional holiday decorator with locations across the country and in Canada, the average cost of a display in the United States is $1,650, said Brandon Stephens, the company's president.
Then we designed the sets and imagined what it was going to look like and collaborated with the set decorator and the team and watched the rehearsals and the filming of the show.
Their diverse offerings, which went live on Monday morning, include everything from furniture selected by the couple's A-list decorator Trip Haenisch, to designer clothing and, yes, a few pieces of Blink 182 memorabilia.
Through a collaboration with interior decorator Michael S. Smith, First Lady Michelle Obama put together living spaces that paid homage to the historic building and reflected the change the Obama administration has stood for.
The profits have helped afford Picerne, 56, a yacht, private jet travel, and mansions renovated by celebrity decorator Martyn Lawrence Bullard, known for his work with the Kardashian family and fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger.
Rita Konig, an English decorator and editor, oversaw the Plain English color line this year, adding 12 hues that include Nicotine (a deep yellow), Burnt Toast (brown) and Mouldy Plum (what it sounds like).
"If he was just a regular guy, a teacher, doctor, plumber, decorator, then I'm sure he'd have been deported from any country to the U.S. a long time ago," Reuters quoted him as saying.
He has outfitted his room with furniture discarded on sidewalks but with a few touches of the interior decorator he once was — a zebra rug and posters of Isadora Duncan and the Rat Pack.
Because it takes many hours to painstakingly hand-weave a single yard of a particular Pierre Frey tiger-print upholstery fabric, a decorator can be on the waiting list for more than a year.
Cuomo, neglector of subways and fantasy White House decorator, has been all over the fatal violence that took place this weekend in Virginia, subtweeting Donald Trump and bulking up New York's protections of minorities.
" TAKING SERGE GAINSBOURG'S moody, tenebrous apartment on the Rue de Verneuil as a reference, Godin worked with the artist and decorator Mathias Kiss to turn the place into something he felt was more "vibey.
The largely female crowd of around 200 social registrants had gathered inside a mahogany-paneled room to pay tribute to Mario Buatta, the society decorator who died in October at the age of 82.
Radziwill in the 1960s made new, creative friends, including the dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, the architect and decorator Renzo Mongiardino, the stage and costume designer Cecil Beaton, and the writer Truman Capote.
While the real house used for filming is tucked into the dunes of Malibu, set decorator Amy Wells used the series' setting, idyllic and well-to-do Monterey, California, as inspiration for the interior design.
The Obamas will be unpacking their suitcases late Friday at the abode of outgoing US ambassador to Spain James Costos and his husband -- an interior designer -- Michael Smith, who's been the WH's decorator since '08.
Working with the set decorator from the films, I was able to put together a style that led the way and showed us how to build things the way they were built for the films.
The rep also scoffs at claims Alex is anti-semitic and homophobic, telling us he was an invited guest at the real estate reception, which he attended with his Jewish contractor and gay interior decorator.
Toyon and Mueller are the show's production designer and set decorator, respectively, and they're tasked with creating a set that is as true-to-life as possible, even though it's for an inherently fictional show.
"I would like to do this renovation for my parents because they've done so many things for my brother and I." So, she sat down with a decorator, who helped bring her vision to life.
"At Thumbtack, we analyzed data from more than 750,000 price quotes for the most popular wedding services to find out what couples typically pay — for everything from the DJ to the decorator," the study says.
That notion of impermanence delighted Mr. Kedigian, who hoped that visitors to the Kips Bay Decorator Show House, which opens Thursday, would feel free to reach out and touch the elaborate walls, whatever the consequences.
We've been in lots of feminine establishments from which you might have taken half the furnishings and given them to the nearest Thrift Shop — and achieved as much as if you'd called in a decorator.
"Mark Hampton had 20 assistants," Mr. Callahan said, referring to another famous decorator, with whom Mr. Buatta collaborated in the 1980s on a design of Blair House, the president's guesthouse across from the White House.
" In November 2016, according to the lawyer's letter, Ms. Viktor was contacted by an assistant to Jay Hart, a Marvel set decorator, asking to feature her work, "Constellations I" in the movie, then titled "Motherland.
"They create a certain sense of architecture and are essentially mobile pieces of art," said Michael S. Smith, the Los Angeles-based interior designer who is perhaps best known as the Obamas' White House decorator.
" Crosby's sentiment also spoke to how the interior decorator handled the breakup — putting on a brave face and even continuing to work with her ex on their TV series: "To suffer, that is common to all.
Set decorator Sarah McMillan did a great job with Top Happy Spa, making it simultaneously look like a cliché New Age spa, a business that would get raided for illicit prostitution, and a weird-science emporium.
Chris McMillan, stylist to stars like Kim Kardashian, Kate Hudson, Reese Witherspoon and BFF Jennifer Aniston, teamed up with celeb interior decorator Trip Haenisch to decorate his Los Angeles pad, and the results are completely stunning.
Penelope Ann Kitson, an English interior decorator played by Anna Chancellor in the show, inherited the most: 5,000 shares of Getty oil stock worth $826,500, and $1,167 a month for life (that's $0003,100 in today's terms).
"I was lucky to have a counselor to help me through the grieving process, but so many other parents don't have that," Janice, a cake decorator who has written a blog about her experience, tells PEOPLE.
In selecting the artists, the Portrait Gallery worked with three advisers: Thelma Golden, the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem; Bill Allman, the former White House curator; and Michael Smith, the Obamas' White House decorator.
It's no surprise that the supermodel, who has walked every major runway, covered Vogue, and regularly hangs out with Rihanna and Paris Jackson, had a top decorator, Tom Bartlett, outfit her new townhouse in the English capital.
In the living room, the celebrity decorator — who has a pretty impressive home in NYC himself — installed dark wood floors and spruced up the walls with molding and casings that pay homage to the 1924 building's history.
"I stand here with agency and self-worth because of Ryan Coogler, who not only made me a better designer and storyteller, but a better person," said Beachler, who accepted the award alongside set decorator Jay Hart.
Due to unreliable testimony later shown to be fabricated, the then-18-year-old painter and decorator found himself convicted of murder, receiving a life sentence that tore him away from his young family in South Wales.
Lee Mayer discovered the benefits of crowdsourcing after she had moved to a new home in Denver from New York City and struggled for three months to find an interior decorator who would work within her budget.
For a new line for James Lowther's Lacquer Company, Ben Pentreath (owner of the London shop Pentreath & Hall and decorator to William and Kate) stays true to his reputation as someone who lovingly upends classic British design.
The townhouse had once been the residence of Elsie de Wolfe, often called America's first interior decorator, and her companion, Elisabeth Marbury, a literary agent and theater producer whose clients included Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.
She's busy building a new career as an interior decorator, and has moved with her two daughters into her childhood home, which she has redecorated to look like something out of a lower-budget Nancy Meyers movie.
Digby and set decorator Michelle Day share a wide, tall office across the hall from the soundstage where the cubic lab is, their walls plastered with designs for everything from the quantum computer to people's office space.
Bobby Berk, the decorator on Netflix's Queer Eye reboot, totally gets that, and works overtime on the set of Queer Eye to make sure that the heroes of the show have a perfect new place to call home.
When we worked with our art department, too, we were trying to make sure the spaces looked like people lived in them, and not like a set decorator came in and put a bunch of stuff in there.
At his side were his family and two stalwart friends: Emily Evans Eerdmans, with whom he wrote "Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Decoration" (Rizzoli, 803), and Anne Eisenhower, the decorator and a granddaughter of America's 34th president.
One day in 1951, when Susan Magee's mother, Marichu Beilby, an interior decorator, stopped by her regular picture-framing store, she was struck by a pastel drawing of a black-eyed 9-month-old baby in the window.
L.G.B.T. Americans, women and members of non-favored religions may be able to get the services they need from some other pharmacist or cake decorator or retirement home or emergency room — at least we have to hope so.
Known for her own steely work ethic, Ms. Russell, a design industry veteran who counted Michael Smith, former President Barack Obama's decorator, among her inner circle, lightened up the joint without throwing out too much of the furniture.
According to pool reports, Trump, most conspicuously, switched out the drapes behind his desk from a deep crimson — a color Obama's decorator described as "heroic" — to a gaudy gold that recalls the Versailles aesthetic he so loves to replicate.
The owner, who is also the chef, the decorator and the occupant of the house's upper stories, had proudly seated us at a piece of furniture she had bought and placed there because she liked the way it looked.
As for the guys, Kenny Yoshihara (31) fronts indie band Spicysol, Shohei Matsuzaki (25) is an actor, travel writer, and part-time decorator, and Ruka Nishinoiri (20) works as a shop assistant while dreaming of becoming a Marvel star.
FROM COINAGE: From John Steinbeck's Cottage to an Actual Castle: 5 Historical Homes You Can Rent Another famous friend came to her rescue for the decor: Courteney Cox recommended decorator Trip Haenisch, who outfitted Cox's Malibu home, for the job.
Of course online interior design services are nothing new, but the thing that peaked my interest about Modsy is that everything is shown perfectly to scale — in my opinion the trickiest element for an amateur decorator to get exactly right.
A source confirmed El Moussa and Anstead's relationship to PEOPLE a little over a year after the realtor and interior decorator, 34, announced her split from husband of seven years and HGTV costar, Tarek El Moussa, 36, in December 2016.
Before they became household names, Chip and Joanna Gaines were a contractor and a decorator, respectively, hustling in tiny Waco, Texas, to grow his house-flipping business while she closed her housewares shop to stay home with their four young children.
The Obamas' White House decorator, Michael S. Smith, said he has reached out to President-elect Donald Trump's team, offering to help with the part of the presidential transition that will mean new artwork and furniture at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom property's kitchen is outfitted with custom cabinets that feature a mixer lift, a cutting board drawer and a trash chute, which were incorporated seamlessly into the design by interior decorator Tiffany Brooks.
A source confirmed El Moussa and Anstead's relationship to PEOPLE in January, a little over a year after the realtor and interior decorator announced her split from husband of seven years and HGTV costar, Tarek El Moussa, 36, in December 2016.
Andrew was too vulnerable to leave the apartment, so Esther could not go to see the house in person, but they bought it anyway, and she made plans with a decorator friend to create an airplane-themed room for Andrew.
Instead, he repeated the same stories about his past: the high school art teacher who told him he was gay and should move to New York and become a decorator; the love between his parents; his own reconciliation with his brother.
"  Lia Roldan, a 42-year-old set decorator in the film industry who lives in Long Beach, said she was voting for Sanders because "he has a lot of experience in standing up for causes that benefit the working class.
As Beaton's authorized biographer and literary executor, Mr. Vickers is a principal architect of a crowded cult dedicated to erecting an ever-higher pedestal to the aesthete, photographer, Bright Young Thing, diarist, painter, decorator and designer for stage and film.
California Native Bobby Trendy (real name Raymond Muro) gained fame in the early 2000s when he was added to the crazy cast of characters as the lip-glossed interior decorator and ornate sidekick of Anna Nicole Smith on the E!
For the five-day preview, visitors can immerse themselves in the ambience of a 1980s Milanese apartment recreated by Charles Zana, a Paris architect and decorator, staged with 69 lots that the auction house has spent 18 months collecting around Europe.
Guests included Karolina Kurkova, the fashion model; Geoffrey Bradfield, the uptown decorator; Rima Al-Sabah, the wife of the Kuwaiti ambassador; Susan Gutfreund, the society hostess; and several television actresses including Mozhan Marnò, AnnaLynne McCord, Kat Graham and Michelle Hurd.
Her murals start around $5,000, Ms. Harris said, and have cost as much as $140,000 for an elaborate Park Avenue commission — secured through the decorator Juan Pablo Molyneux — that took her a year and a half to complete working with assistants.
Though she's trained as a painter, the 53-year-old artist Kris Moran is best known as a set decorator for film directors such as Todd Haynes and Wes Anderson; her work is recognizable for its vibrant colors and surprising juxtapositions.
Wrightsman transformed the already grand space into a showplace for old masters artwork, as well as fine French furnishings and décor, with the help of Maison Jansen, a prominent Paris decorator that also did work in the Kennedy White House.
For the design and display features, Mr. Martens called on several well-known Belgians, including Gert Voorjans, an interior decorator whose clients have included Mick Jagger and who is known in fashion circles for creating boutiques for Dries Van Noten.
Kips Bay Decorator Show House A 15,000-square-foot show house to benefit the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club features spaces created by leading interior designers and firms, including Alessandra Branca, Bunny Williams, Drake/Anderson, Alexa Hampton and Katie Ridder.
It was chosen for the 2017 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, an annual event 42 years in the running where dozens of the city&aposs top designers bring their expertise to a chosen home and turn it into a work of art.
The British have never bothered to neatly segregate representational patterns from the abstract, indulging a love for flora and fauna while embracing bold patterns; the decorator David Hicks, for instance, defined 1960s and '70s London interiors with his deep-hued geometries.
It's a subtle debut, which may be why so many people seem to remember the drink's first appearance happening later in the season, in episode 7, "The Chicken Dance", when the gang attends the wedding of Miranda's interior decorator to her longtime crush.
A wedding dress designer as well as a local florist and tailor made sure they had everything they needed for a beautiful day while a wedding decorator captured the essence of their original wedding, with an outside ceremony with vintage and romantic details.
It was created in the early 28s by the heretofore little-known cabinetmaker and interior decorator George A. Schastey (21821-1894) for the home of Arabella Worsham, who later married the railroad tycoon Collis P. Huntington (and who became Arabella Worsham Huntington).
She's pleased to show off the house a little: She hired Celine Dion's decorator Angela Reynolds and designed it around the kids (putting green for Charlie, 5; soccer nets for Sam Alexis, 6; bunk beds built like ship berths for visiting cousins).
The Dancing With the Stars judge, who said "I do" on Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho surrounded by friends and family, worked with event planner Troy Williams of Simply Troy Lifestyle + Events and his staff to relay her vision to cake decorator Kayla Carey.
The production designer (or art director) can be better understood as a "set designer" (even if she doesn't always build the actual sets herself), while the set decorator places props and other items upon those sets to make them come to life.
I wanted to litter my building's lobby with strange sculptures but to do that I had to hire an interior decorator but to hire one I needed to earn prestige and to raise that number I need more tenants and, amusingly, more artwork.
His offices are full of reminders, as if arranged by a set decorator, that Icahn is a conqueror: the walls are lined with oil paintings depicting famous battles, as well as framed stock certificates and other trophies from companies that he has subdued.
"The amazing historic nature of Casa Laguna gave me all I needed to create a Mediterranean oasis," says the Los Angeles-based decorator Martyn Lawrence Bullard, who oversaw the property's renovation, and who has created interiors for Cher, Tommy Hilfiger and Ellen Pompeo.
Its owner, John Birch, is also one of the most elusive, and talked about, dealers on the high-end furniture scene: a Larry Gagosian for the interior-decorator set, with strong taste that did not just mirror the market but helped set it.
Michael Shannon, however, scored his first nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2009, while art director Kristi Zea, set decorator Debra Schutt, and costume designer Albert Wolsky all scored nominations for creating an air of 1950s suburbia so authentic, it's practically carcinogenic.
A child of military veterans, she attended 13 public schools before graduating from high school, then started a salsa company and worked as a cake decorator before putting herself through college and law school on a mix of food stamps and student loans.
Restored by the current owner, the seven-bedroom, five-bathroom (three full bathrooms, two half) home retains its cultural roots, particularly in the 19th-century hand-painted ceilings by the decorator Filip Månsson, whose designs adorn many local churches and public buildings.
Although Mr. Leifer, 35, didn't formally study design, he did serve a long apprenticeship in the field, working for Ralph Lauren in the brand's store development, for the architect Robert A.M. Stern and for Juan Pablo Molyneux, the high-end residential decorator.
At the Lark Inn, a pub in a part of central Dublin where Sinn Fein has long been popular, John Flood, 75, a retired interior decorator, sat at the bar as the television showed Ireland's two main parties losing one seat after another.
This year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House, open May 2 through June 1 at 2484 East 217th Street, is a brick Georgian designed by Charles Platt, a self-taught classical architect, landscape architect and artist, at the turn of the 22th century.
Another source familiar with the trip confirmed Obama and the first lady will be staying at the Rancho Mirage home of Michael Smith, the decorator responsible for designing the Oval Office and private residence, a location where the Obamas have stayed in the past.
"When I was designing my living room with my decorator Martyn Lawrence Bullard, we agreed that this is the one room in the house that doesn't need to be super comfortable," Kardashian writes of the planning process with her family's go-to interior designer.
On Disney Channel's That's So Raven reboot, Raven Baxter (Raven Symone) and her BFF Chelsea's (Anneliese van der Pool) kids, Booker (Issac Ryan Brown) and Levi (Jason Maybaum), share a space that set decorator Lisa de los Reyes created to capture their "inventive" spirit.
Smith, a well-known, high-end interior designer who has been the White House decorator since President Obama was first inaugurated in 2009, often spends time entertaining dignitaries and celebrities in Madrid, where his partner, James Costos, is the U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra.
Nicky Haslam, the wonderful decorator, whose Sign of the Times essay leads the issue, takes umbrage at the idea that any material is intrinsically worthier than any other by extolling the virtues of ''fake'' materials like plaster, provided that they aren't trying to pretend otherwise.
Like the character in the John Cheever novel "Bullet Park," Mr. Buatta had as his emotional touchstone a beautiful yellow room, in his case found in the London apartment of Nancy Lancaster, the Virginia-born decorator who helped foment the English country house style.
By Design There are now 257 butterfly bookplates adorning the restaurant walls of Chess Club in London — a distinctive new addition to Mayfair's private member's scene — and every single one can be traced back to a pilgrimage taken by the interior decorator Fran Hickman.
With her wry sense of humor honed by a coquettish but self-doubting vanity, the French novelist Colette would doubtless have been flattered to see the painstakingly authentic renovation of her childhood home by the Paris decorator Jacques Grange in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye.
The home on Pacific Avenue is a rare gem for a few reasons: it&aposs huge, it&aposs in the coveted Pac Heights district, and it bears the design work of dozens of the city&aposs top designers from the 2017 San Francisco Decorator Showcase.
The celebrity decorator who counts Amber Valletta and Sia among his clients has released a new collection with CB2, and it's chock-full of rugs, décor pieces and furniture in a sea of blue hues that will make you feel instantly calmer (and closer to the beach).
It's still unclear when precisely she will make her move to the White House, but there are signs that the wheels are in motion: Official White House interior decorator Tham Kannalikham continues to make the house a home for the Trumps, according to the White House.
The decorator used a swirling paper she calls "marbleized" for Notting Hill's Farm Girl cafe and its just-opened Chelsea outpost and textiles from her line for her West London townhouse, where the sink skirt, among other things, is made from her rich velvet peacock pattern.
An avatar of the English country style, and of 21.9s excess, Mr. Buatta was perhaps the only decorator to achieve fame on the East Coast, West Coast and all points between, during a time when the wealthy found their footing with their decorators, not their art advisers.
His predecessor and the founding editor, Min Hogg, was a formidable figure whose father was the ear, nose and throat physician to the Queen Mother, and who ran with a bohemian London "in" crowd, including the actor Rupert Everett and the social gadfly and decorator Nicky Haslam.
THE MINIMALIST URGE is by its nature a cerebral one: An architect engineers a precise series of cantilevered boxes for a manicured slice of paradise; a decorator decides against a side table in the living room lest it reduce the impact of a solitary Modernist chair.
Murphy brought the original architect on to help combine the house with another property next door, had a landscape designer rebuild the "nightmare of a garden," and worked with decorator Cliff Fong, who he collaborated with on his Beverly Hills home (previously Diane Keaton's house), to perfect the decor.
Indeed, if the 47-year-old decorator has a single governing aesthetic, it's exuberance: Consider his downtown New York City townhouse, where a red velvet banquette punctuates the Schiaparelli-pink living room, and a set of double doors are covered in zebra hide and detailed with rock crystal handles.
While Park Street and Downtown Crossing stations — two central hubs in the system — were undeniably quiet for much of Saturday night, there were plenty of late-night workers riding the rails: grocery store employees, caterers, an interior decorator — all of whom worried about the effect on their wallets.
She has hung the longest wall in that space salon-style, displaying a John Baldessari print; a Richard Avedon portrait of her husband as a child, playing with his brother and father; and Etienne Drian's sketch for a mural of the decorator Elsie de Wolfe jumping across the Atlantic.
Mr. Carson's wife, Candy Carson, played a central role in coordinating the redecoration of his office suite — down to scheduling an appointment with an interior decorator, reviewing photo boards of furniture choices last summer and pressuring staff members to find more money for furnishings, according to the emails.
In 1844, he married his cousin Marie-Caroline, the daughter of the Prince of Salerno and a grandniece of Marie Antoinette, and hired the fashionable society decorator and court painter Eugène Lami to design the interiors of the old private apartments in a ground-floor wing of the castle.
His only minor brushes with scandal came in 2006, when he left his wife to live with a male interior decorator, and in 2012, while serving as energy minister, when he made the tabloids for using a microwave at Parliament to warm a cushion for his pet dachshund, Otto.
It was eventually renovated and, in 2019, the mansion was selected for the 2019 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, an annual event 42 years in the running where dozens of the city's top designers bring their expertise to a chosen home and transform it into a work of art.
Emmanuel was once a decorator for Maison Jansen, the fabled Parisian design company founded in 1880 and known for meshing Classical motifs with Modernist touches; over his 25 years at Château d'Aunoy, he added such flourishes as a vast ceiling mural modeled on the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles.
Lee Radziwill, the free-spirited former princess who shared the qualities of wealth, social status and ambition with her older sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, but who struggled as an actor, decorator and writer to share her sister's aura of success, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan.
Lee Radziwill — a former princess, interior decorator, actress, fashion publicist, lover of many arts and close friend to many famous artists — outlived nearly everyone else in her life, including her three husbands and the successive scions of the Kennedys, with whom her family became forever intertwined nearly seven decades ago.
He left school at the age of twelve or thirteen to apprentice as a decorator of porcelain, quickly advancing to a mastery of rococo forms and images; that training persists in all his painting, in which he centers the subjects in space that goes vague toward the corners of the canvas.
This is the first time upscale properties will be segmented into their own category, and Bloomberg's sources say the included listings will be officially inspected by Airbnb to make sure the homes meet designated standards and will offer incentives for participants — like a consultation with an Airbnb-provided interior decorator.
It so happens that Ms. Catroux, the chicly tough septuagenarian wife of the decorator François Catroux and otherwise someone with no professional portfolio (she makes a point in interviews of saying she is lazy and has accomplished remarkably little in life) features in a new ad campaign for Saint Laurent.
Tapiau sees the process as a continuation of "the conversation that Henri Samuel started," referring to the legendary decorator who, like Motte, had worked for Maison Jansen, and had been dubbed a master of "progressive historicism" after creating wildly eclectic homes for Valentino Garavani and Marie-Hélène and Guy de Rothschild.
Time-based preferences were also demonstrated in a cell dedicated to Le Corbusier's taste in bright color as related to his architecture, and in the display of the little known decorator Paule Marrot who brought muted cool colors and jazzy printed textiles to the Renault automobile company in the early 1960s.
Much like Project Runway, Gorder's new show will involve an impressive lineup of rotating guest judges, including Jonathan Adler, Million Dollar Decorators alum Kathryn M. Ireland, Kardashian design guru Martyn Lawrence Bullard, original Queer Eye cast member Thom Filicia, Kaley Cuoco's decorator Jeff Andrews, Jamie Bush, Molly Sims, Jason Wu and India Hicks.
Duff also revealed that they hadn't started filming the reboot yet, but said she's been working very closely with Minsky to develop the upcoming series, which will follow Lizzie as a 30-year-old millennial, working as an apprentice to a fancy New York City decorator and navigating life in the Big Apple.
Jason Allemann's EV3 Egg Decorator isn't the first Lego creation that automates the process of turning a hard-boiled egg into a work of art, but he always goes the extra mile to post the full build instructions and programming code on his JK Brickworks website if you want to build your own.
Dawson's friends often tease that he's a hoarder; indeed, the space is crowded with objects gathered during his travels or left by loved ones, such as the lion-faced sculpture on the mantle that once belonged to the American decorator Bill Willis and the wooden chairs owned by the Scottish artist James McBey.
Alongside Ms. Coppola's parents, Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola, and friends from New York who had joined the director in Europe for a getaway, the guests included a smattering of fashion people as well as the actress Brie Larson; her fiancé, the musician Alex Greenwald; the decorator Jacques Grange; and Marisa Berenson.
The English ransacked the spoils of other colonial cultures as well: The colors, shapes and patterns celebrated in the French decorator Francis Spar's seminal 250 decorating book, "Le Style Anglais: 25-21950," a bible to this current crop of designers, are detailed with Moroccan filigree and tinged with Southeast Asian greens and blues.
After 22 hours of bidding on 163 lots, the auction of the late decorator Mario Buatta's belongings — a giddy assortment of dog paintings, porcelain fruits and vegetables, needlepoint pillows, gilded door knockers, Chinese jardinieres and a thousand other pieces delivered in 19 trucks — fetched $7.6 million, more than two and a half times its estimate.
In her last stage of life, he said, she is holed up in the top floor of an S.R.O. hotel, once a grand townhouse, surrounded by donated finery and decoration — a spangly pillow on a chair with a tropical print, a leopard-print carpet, the novels of Graham Greene — the largess of her decorator friends.
"People tend to think that interior design is just choosing the right cushions," says Heuman from her desk, where a ceramic lamp with a marbleized shade sits beside a well-thumbed Fabriano Artist's Journal and a resin sample created for a client during the nine years she worked with the British decorator Nicky Haslam.
There he was on Wednesday, attired in a dark suit, a patterned power tie and tassel loafers and flanked by a Praetorian Guard comprising a former first deputy mayor, a heavy-hitting art consultant, his decorator and several refrigerator-size fellows, all gliding past security guards and onto the sales floor fully 20 minutes before the fair's official opening.
Conceived as one of her debut public sculptures at this year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase (her prior commissions were mostly for private clients), Kubrick's version of the story doesn't emulate the Italian classicist Gian Lorenzo Bernini's famous 103 sculpture — now displayed at Rome's Galleria Borghese, it depicts the moment with harrowing realism — but rather summons the kidnapping's subliminal terror.
Another piquant aspect of the story is the way Adams's life came to mirror that of her parents: Her oldest friend pointed out how Alice "was beginning to look like Agatha" — her homely, unhappy mother — at a time when she lived with a handsome interior decorator, Bob McNie, who drank and was probably bipolar like Adams's father.
She recalled growing up on the Upper West Side, the only child of a lawyer and a former decorator who studied psychology and education and took in refugees, and the grandchild of Jewish immigrants whose New World beginnings — the pushcarts, sweat shops and dry goods stores of the Lower East Side — gave her upbringing a European flavor.

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