Category Archives: Rooms

Design Diary: Vera Wang’s Beverly Hills Home

Vera Wang recently purchased a modernist dream of a home in Beverly Hills. This month’s Harper’s Bazaar got the scoop on the Steve Hermann designed space. (He’s also the previous owner, and sold the house to Wang.) I found additional shots of the house on his site, though some of these circulated this summer when the Wall Street Journal reported that Wang purchased the house for about $10 million.

This is the entryway. Wang’s wearing a Rick Owens vest and skirt and her own Ann Demeulemeester boots. The bag is Hermes, the watch Rolex.

The back of the house, complete with covered patio and pool.

Can you believe Wang is 62-years-old? Insane. She says in the article she’s not the type to wear heels with her swimsuit. But when you’re posing for a fashion mag, you kinda have to. The swimsuit is Eres and the bustier over top is Alexander Wang. The heels are Manolo Blahnik, of course.

I didn’t even realize until I read the caption that this is the kitchen. Talk about sleek. Wang’s dress is Azzedine Alaia and the Mary Janes are Giuseppe Zanotti.

The dining area.

The living room. The TV doesn’t look half bad over the fireplace.

The walk-in closet she shares with her husband, Arthur Becker. Love the cowhide cubes. She should probably add some color to her West Coast wardrobe.

Above photographs by Douglas Friedman for Harper’s Bazaar

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Below photos are from Hermann Design


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Never Mind the Clothing, It’s the Room

Catching up on my magazine reading the other night I paused at this Carolina Herrera ad I came across in the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar (the one with Demi on the cover). Sure, the yellow dress is appropriately glam, but it’s the room I was taken with.The brass floor lamp with the chunky cube shades, the art deco black lacquer daybed, the mirrored console, the geometric patterned black and white marble floor . . . Love.

Carolina Herrera Spring/Summer 2012

Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier
  Model: Sigrid Agren

These Carolina Herrera perfume ads are beauties too.

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Montage: 45 Rooms with Sideboards

I’ve been really interested in sideboards lately, especially Danish modern ones. While my first inclination for a sideboard is to skip the furniture altogether and build one in, the pieces are actually quite good looking, useful, and can be gotten at a good deal, particularly on eBay. It’s quite the grown up piece of furniture—a sideboard implies you have a second set of fancy dishes to store or highball glasses. And then there’s the need to artfully arrange a display on top, and hang a mirror or artwork. If you have a dining room, or a spacious living room that needs filler, definitely consider one. Here are a bunch of ideas on how to incorporate a sideboard into your decor.

Ellen Hamilton

Photographer Peter Margonelli

via The Brick House

via Desire to Inspire

Amy Lau

unknown

Photographer Moris Moreno

Molly Luetkemeyer – M. Design

Celerie Kemble

via New York Times

Brad Ford

Light Locations

Domino

FC Studio Architecture + Interiors

Carrier & Co.

Oak Management via Desire to Inspire

Fernlund + Logan Architects

unknown

Fernlund + Logan Architects

Fifth Season Design

Julia Buckingham Edelmann – Buckingham Interiors + Design

BDDW Furniture  |  Angela Adams

via The Aestate  |  Photographer Hotze Eisma

unknown (via Pinterest) | Photographer Justin Bernhaut

Photographer Mark Roshams  |  Photographer Kelly Ishikawa

Photographer Jeltje Janmaat  |  Emma’s Design Blog

Stylist Sally Conran  |  Photographer Prue Roscoe

Fenton & Fenton  |  Elle Decor South Africa

Molly Luetkemeyer – M. Design  |  unknown

Mercedes Pérez de Castro

Metropolitan Home – Kelly Wearstler

Geoffrey De Sousa

Photographer Bob O’Connor

via Design Traveler

via Emma’s Design Blog

Metropolitan Home

unknown (via Pinterest)

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41 (More) Rooms with Poufs

My pouf post,  34 Rooms with Poufs,  has proven the most popular on the site. So, seeing as the trend is still going strong, I’ve curated a whole new batch of interiors featuring Moroccan leather, knitted, and even wicker poufs, plus a couple of bean bag varieties.

Daniel Pafford in Lonny

Lindsay Bentis in Boston Home

via Bo-Laget

via Decorpad

via Decorpad

Photographer Simon Upton in Elle Decor

Tineke Triggs of Artistic Designs for Living

Jonathan Adler

CB2

Desire to Inspire

The Parker Palm Springs, Jonathan Adler

Alexandra Angle

via A Piece of Toast

via Pinterest

via The Aestate

Cebula Design

Domino

Jayne Wunder

via Decorpad

Adore Home Magazine  |  Jeffers Design Group

Ana Ros  |  via Jokemijn

via Designhund  |  via Desire to Inspire

via The Aestate   |  Zid Zid Kids

via The Aestate  |  via Design Sponge

Amanda Nisbet  |  Apartment Therapy

Heart Home Magazine  |  House Beautiful

Finnian’s Moon Interiors  |   via Mugutu

via Zay and Zo |  photographer Anna G. Tufvesson

Lee Ann Thornton  | Stylist Selina Lake

American Fashion Designers at Home book | Angie Hranowsky

Looking for a pouf?
Get the Look: 31 Poufs
Get the Look: 25 (More) Poufs

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Montage: 36 Interiors with Nudes

After admiring a collection of nude drawings above the bed in a cottage we once rented on Cape Cod, my husband and I decided to acquire some for our own art collection, to add to the handful that we had collected over the years. I’ve recently snapped up a few on eBay; the prices are great. You can get lovely sketches for very little money—under $20 even. They look beautiful with simple frames or ornate ones, in groups or on their own.

Christina Halscov

Painting by Francine Turk

Paintings by Joan McD Miller

Buckingham Interior Design

Buckingham Interior Design

Carrier & Co.

Drawing by sculptor Chaim Gross on my mantle.

DNA Gallery, Provincetown (back office)

via Roseland Green

Welhil Interiors

Apartment Therapy Boston

Trine Thorsen   |  Sibella Court

Ryan Korban  |  Stylist Johanna Flickt

Justine Hugh-Jones (painting by Robert Malherbe)   | via Lindsey Adelman

Justine Hugh-Jones  |  Melanie Coddington

Grant K. Gibson

Gideon Mendelson  |  via Design Attractor

Grant K. Gibson  |  Charles Spada

Jarlath Mellot  |  Melanie Coddington

Elizabeth Martin  |  Eddie Lee

Matter & Order  (Nude by Austin Eddy)

unknown (via aestate)

Ryan Korban  |  Brooke Giannetti

Stylist Johanna Flickt  |  Carrier & Co. photographed by Habitually Chic

Photographer Simon Eldon (nude by Lucie Bennett)

For more photos and tips on using nudes in décor, see “The Nude: Rooms in a State of Undress,” an article I wrote for The Inside Source.

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