Tag Archives: Interior Design

Brian Gluckstein: Inside Design
December 7, 2011 by Brian Gluckstein1
Gluckstein Design Planning Inc
Interior design has gone through drastic esthetic changes over the past 10 – 15 years. We’ve seen the traditional opulence of the ’80s and early ’90s transition to a spare, modern and mid-century-influenced look in the 2000s. Recently, a very eclectic approach has evolved, and its given the homeowner an opportunity to inject more of their person...
Fashion Icon Iris Apfel
September 16, 2011 by Michael Hill
Iris Apfel
It was about halfway through our interview on a rainy Thursday morning when Iris Apfel asks if I would mind pausing while she grabs something quick to eat. She politely explains that a frantic morning had consumed any free time for food. Denying the 90-year-old former interior design and fashion icon a snack would simply be inexcusable, so I has...
Woodson & Rummerfield Design Philosophy
September 16, 2011 by Simona Panetta
Woodson & Rummerfield
For Los Angeles-based designers Ron Woodson and Jaime Rummerfield, beautifying spaces isn’t about dedicating blueprints to particular times or places. It’s about expressing relationships: affairs between scale and texture, vocabularies of colour and proportion. It’s about unions of the old and the new – the modern and vintage – or what the desig...
Britain’s Great Tricia Guild
June 10, 2011 by Madeline Stephenson1
Tricia Guild
It was a right royal night in 2008 when Tricia Guild found out that the Queen was appointing her to design a collection of fabrics and wall coverings influenced by the dignified décor of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. “I was pretty shocked and a little nervous, but delighted to have been chosen,” says Guild, who is currently completing he...
Getting Moe Style: Moe Razi Design
June 10, 2011 by Michael Hill
Moe Razi
When your childhood is chock-full of globetrotting excursions alongside your diplomat father, exposing your inquisitive mind to the sights, sounds and styles of foreign cities and cultures, you acquire a certain aptitude for all things fashionable. This first hand experience was a central facet in interior designer Moe Razi’s growth, and a pilla...
Martin Daniel Interiors
March 18, 2011 by Madeline Stephenson
Upscale Bedroom
The pulse of Italian Renaissance beats between the walls of Martin Daniel Interiors’ Classique gallery, captivating clients with the cultural influences of handcrafted furniture that resonates authentic European artistry. Surrounded by baroque subtleties, gilded exotic woods and exquisite fabrics, enter a disarming romance where furniture is the...
Abigail Ahern of Atelier
September 9, 2010 by Melissa Sundardas
Abigail Ahern
From the U.K. and Dubai, to Japan and Australia, the avant-garde colour combinations and rather rare shapes of interior designer Abigail Ahern display their dreamlike appeal with Alice-in-Wonderland qualities. The varied interior designs may be uncommon to some but a careful examination of Ahern’s unique work transports you to a beautiful fan...
Suzan Fellman takes Centre Stage
September 23, 2009 by Stephanie D'Angelo
Suzan Fellman
In many ways, home décor is much like theatre. And this is something that Los Angeles designer Suzan Fellman identifies with. “I understand characters, and when I design a home, I’m really developing a character.” Bursting with personality and incomparable creativity, Fellman has created quite the name for herself, becoming the new secret wea...
Perfecting Proportion
September 23, 2009 by Dolce Staff Writer
Taylor Hannah
As Dee Dee Hannah recalls her childhood, it’s easy to understand how she became both an architect and an interior designer. “I loved math and science and I loved fashion. I had this dichotomy in terms of interests, but also that’s sort of the way my mind works: very linear, logical thinker. But then I loved design!” Her stunning creations, brigh...
Sandy Joe’s: Holding the Keys to Timeless Design
June 5, 2009 by Dolce Staff Writer1
Sandy Joe
There was a time when beauty was so easily captured in the world. From the Sistine Chapel’s painted scenes of Genesis, to Versaille’s majestic chamber of mirror-covered arches, the soul yearned for heart-throbbing design. It was the type of style found in magnificent palaces and glorious cathedrals, making the human pysche ache in blissful ecsta...
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