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If you could have a second home anywhere, where would you live? Amalfi Coast
Tell us about your childhood bedroom? First incarnation was all about apple green and white polka dots literally everywhere in a very Vera meets wicker way, then my mother went bonkers at the Harold Lloyd Estate auction ( which was so large it went on for 2 years!) And I graduate to a suite of antique lettuce green hand painted Italian furniture including an adorable upright piano… and no I never really played except scales!
What’s the first investment piece you ever bought for your house? An all bone inlay French bookcase and an important (or so they say) gilded 18th century Empire chair, I still love both to this day.
In the history of design, if you could hire any designer other than yourself, who would it be? Jacques Garcia
No room is complete without - a glam lighting fixture, be it modern or traditional
People think of me as strict, picky and possibly uptight, but I am really arty, informall and love a good laugh at the absurdity of it all.
Things you omit from:
• A flower arrangement: baby’s breath and sticks
• An hors d’oeuvre platter: in public.. ritz crackers… in private probably nothing .. I will eat anything..
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