Top 100 Interior Designer, Mary Mcdonald

Mary Mcdonald

Los Angeles-based designer Mary McDonald is one of today’s most sought after designers and is consistently ranked one of House Beautiful “Top 100 Designers”.

Mary McDonald’s gorgeous interiors have captivated the design community and are featured in major national publications including Town & Country, Veranda, House Beautiful,Domino, House & Garden and International Vogue.

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THE YVES SAINT-LAURENT - PIERRE BERGE COLLECTION

yves st laurant furniture and art collection

Berge-Saint Laurent Art and Furniture Collection

Pierre Bergé has argued that inimitable couturier Yves Saint-Laurent was more focused upon style rather than fashion. Their art and furniture collection was a testament to this heightened sense of style, one that Saint-Laurent cultivated throughout his career as a kind of personal quest for joy. The Bergé-Saint-Laurent collection was sold at Christie’s over a year and a half ago, yet it still resonates as this century’s largest auction of the personal aspects and intimate expressions of Saint-Laurent and Bergé’s lifelong collaboration. In terms of work Bergé and Saint-Laurent were inseparable even if they were, at times, separated from one another.

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IKEA, THE BOOK

Ikea, the Book

The instant impact in the design world of Ikea’s release of its first book recently, one aptly named, Ikea, the Book, is just now beginning to reverberate in the public at large.

Isn’t this how it should be? Above all, Ikea is made for the rest of us. Bringing a sense of design in flat, cardboard packages, and frustrating the clumsy among us with its cheerful “assemble it yourself” ethos, Ikea has punched far above its Swedish origins to become an intimate and vital part of homes across the globe.

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Alexa Hampton Speaks “The Language of Interior Design” in Her First Book

Alexa Hampton Interior Design

Chosen by Architectural Digest in their AD 100 publication as one of the world’s one hundred best interior designers every year since 2002, Alexa Hampton and any would be critics can rest assured she didn’t ride into the design world on the coattails of her iconic 20^th century designer father, Mark Hampton.

Despite having started her design career at her father’s side, traveling the world as an apprentice at a young age and later rising in the ranks in her father’s firm, Hampton has continually forged a path all her own. 

Interior Designer Alexa Hampton

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ZILLIJ Moroccan Mosaic Tile Designs

Zillij Moroccan Mosaic Tile Bedroom Motif

ZILLIJ - Moroccan Mosaic Tile

In The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca author Tahir Shah recounts the vast adventure of buying an old mansion in the center of Casablanca, relocating his wife and young children from London to Morocco, and embarking on a vast, difficult and ultimately spiritual renovation of a great house.  The pitfalls were great, varied and even comical, but the end result was a completely restored, tranquil environment that benefited from Shah’s dogged insistence that the house be restored to its original, if now virtual, glory.

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Interior Design Books

Two Must Have Books about Interior Design

Interior design booksWith so many beautiful and interesting books on interior design on prominent display at your local bookstore and even more that pop up when you do a search online, it’s hard to choose just one. These two caught our attention because the authors, Alexa Hampton and Vincente Wolf, share real world information and inspiration that readers can use in their own homes.

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Designers Guild

Tricia Guild

Tricia Guild is a design legend in Great Britain. She began to make her mark on the interior design world in 1970 with the founding of Designers Guild on Kings Road in London and she’s never looked back.

She set out to offer what was a new and innovative concept at that time—she called it “lifestyle.” The goal was to create a lifestyle in home decor and offer it to the public, not just to the interior design trade. It may have been ahead of its time, but the idea caught on and is still going strong today. And so is that little shop of Kings Road.

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Tony Duquette and Hutton Wilkinson - More is More

“If it’s not fabulous, it’s meaningless!” has been the long time mantra of the design team Hutton Wilkinson and the late Tony Duquette. 

Based in California, Duquette was an innovator in creating lush, over the top rooms that came together with a masterful layering of pattern, color, texture and his signature gilt.  Recent projects have included a furniture collection under Duquette’s name, and a line of silk fabrics for Jim Thompson.

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