Next time you stroll through a hotel, look around and notice how many design decisions had to be made! From the finish of the front desk to the chairs in the lobby, and from the carpet in the guest rooms to the towel hooks in the bathroom, everything had to be chosen as an integral […]
One of my favorite categories of interior design is restaurant design. Not only do the functional aspects of the space have to be spot on, but designers tend to take more risks, pushing the envelope to make a serious visual statement. Especially in the age of Instagram, a striking restaurant design has become a marketing […]
The best interiors are the ones with a story behind them—and there’s no story more inspiring than that of a phoenix rising from the ashes. In the case of my dear friend Elizabeth Messina’s studio, which was featured on Domino Magazine earlier this week, the ashes in question are literal ones. Elizabeth, a world-renowned photographer, […]
As far as I’m concerned, the most dangerous spot in LA isn’t a back alley or a freeway median, it’s The Apartment by The Line. It’s impossible to walk into their impeccably curated space, full of decor, fashion, and apothecary finds, without wanting one of everything—and without walking out with at least one of something. The edit […]
I’ve got chairs on the brain. This is, of course, nothing new. But they’re even more front of mind than usual lately, as I’m undertaking a living and dining room re-do in our new house. As much as I’m fond of all our old pieces, their scale and proportion isn’t quite right for the dimensions […]
You know how some people just seem to be born with an impeccable sense of style? How it oozes from every pore and trails behind them like a subtle yet unforgettable perfume? Hannah Phillips-Kaplan is one of those people. I met her when she attended the styling workshop I taught last month, and the instant […]
Have you ever had an ah-ha moment and discovered that several of your favorite spaces are all designed by the same firm? That happened to me recently with a few interiors I’d been admiring turned out all to be the work of Stewart-Schafer, an interior architecture studio based in Brooklyn. With backgrounds in gallery and […]
I’ve just returned from Las Vegas Market, the biggest interiors trade show on the west coast, and as you can imagine my brain is full to bursting with all the new and drool-worthy traditional, modern, and global decor goodies I spotted! In addition to coveting plenty of individual items, I’m always reeling from how beautifully the showrooms display […]
Lately it seems that every week in LA a new boutique opens, stocked with fabulous finds just begging to hop into my car and accompany me home. The most recent addition to the shopping roster is at once fresh and familiar. An offshoot of a store that’s been making waves in San Francisco for a few years, it’s called Hudson […]
Once I finished the arduous process of writing Sage Living, I got to do something really fun: compile a list of my favorite decor resources for the back of the book! Although it was hard to narrow down just a few, I didn’t think twice about including Elsie Green in that roundup. For years the Bay Area-based […]