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MDS- What is your favorite Color? SK- Even though white is my signature color, I am known for using color…     MDS- What is your favorite Flower? SK- White Roses     MDS- Currently, what is your favorite Book? SK- Deborah Turbeville, who photographs beautiful fashion in iconic interiors. They are amazing and I have a [...]

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MDS- How would you define your style? SK- I love the word style because for me it encompasses mixing of antique and modern, new and vintage. My style has a European sensibility with a focus on architectural elements of a space. I never put a label on my style. I can do traditional or contemporary, sophisticated [...]

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MDS- what is your favorite Color? NO- Green! All shades.   MDS- what is your favorite Book? NO- The Fran Lebowitz Reader   MDS- what is your favorite Restaurant? NO- Sevilla in the West Village always feels like home.   MDS- what is your favorite Accessory? NO- A plaid scarf given to me by my office manager.   MDS- what [...]

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MDS- How would you define your style? NO- That’s difficult! I appreciate so many styles that I tend to define my own by what I don’t like, for instance: Victorian furniture. But then I see Tom Scheerer or the late Albert Hadley use a Victorian sofa so beautifully and realize there are no absolutes. “Elegant, [...]

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MDS- What is your favorite Color? LF- Pink is my favorite color. One of my favorite rooms is the London studio of my friend Charlotte di Carcaci.   MDS- Right now, what is your favorite Book? LF- My favorite book this year was “The Lady in Gold”, a story of Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, and [...]

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MDS- How would you define your style? LF- I am very influenced by color. I love the color of Indian miniature paintings and designs that evoke romance and the orientalist in me. In both interior design and in fashion design, I never like the obvious, or things that look contrived or too matched. There always [...]

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MDS- Currently, what is your favorite Color? VG- Berber Brown and Temple Pink by David Oliver, Paint & Paper Library in London.   MDS- Currently, what is your favorite book? VG- I couldn’t possibly choose one, but I am currently reading Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, Bertie: A life of Edward VII [...]

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MDS- How would you define your style?  VG- contemporary classicism with one eye on the past and one on the future. To put it simply, you should always be able to smell the street.   MDS- Where did you grow up and how do you think that influences your work? VG- I grew up in [...]

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MDS- Currently, what is your favorite Accessory? PD- Flowers   MDS- What is your favorite Flower? PD- Anemones     MDS- What is your favorite Gift to give or to receive? PD- Vintage books   MDS- What is your favorite Book? PD- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell     MDS- What is your favorite Restaurant? PD- La Grenouille   MDS- [...]

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MDS- How would you define your style? PD- Atmospheric, eclectic. David Keeps defined my style in The Los Angeles Times as, “Merchant Ivory Moderne.” I think that’s pretty accurate.     MDS- Where did you grow up and how do you think that influences your work? PD- France, England (for school) and Spain (summers). Each [...]

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