A private place in which to write… As someone whose life is spent working with words for at least a part of every day, I find…
View More Rooms of Their OwnTag: design industry leaders
As a journalist and content creator, I have come across so many impressive talents during my career and it always excites me to feature design industry leaders here on The Diary of an Improvateur.
I’ve had the pleasure of featuring Carmen Natschke’s summer reading list, for example—an awe-inspiring number of books she made her way through in a few months. I’ve seen my fair share of furniture debuts, interviewing the talented minds who envisioned the collections. Among these is Barry Dixon, whose furniture for Tomlinson/Erwin-Lambeth and charming Magnolia Pod pendant debuted during Spring High Point Market in 2014.
Currey & Company is a manufacturer continually releasing terrific products by the design team there. One launch that had an extra dose of pedigree was Edward Wormley’s upholstery. The mid-century modern designer is one of the unsung heroes of modern design in my book. Cecil Adams is the vice present of creative for the company, and he is definitely one of the design industry leaders to watch.
The Valentino Lair
Before The Beatles turned teenaged girls into a screaming, weeping throng and George Clooney made even the most reserved woman a bit toasty under the…
View More The Valentino LairHarmony and Proportion
Love of beauty is taste…the creation of beauty is art. -Emerson I’ve been a fan of Alexandra Stoddard since I came across the designer’s book Living…
View More Harmony and ProportionSummer Reading with Carmen Natschke
For those of you who think Carmen Natschke, of The Decorating Diva fame, is merely a glamorous gadabout holding court in the design stratosphere, there…
View More Summer Reading with Carmen NatschkeAllegorical Accents from Barry Dixon
Certain aspects of being southern seem to seep into the skin through osmosis. It’s as if the summer heat wriggles into our DNA, the perspiration…
View More Allegorical Accents from Barry DixonKips Bay Show House
“The house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind,” wrote Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of…
View More Kips Bay Show HousePoem at Streamsong
I’m visiting Streamsong Resort near Tampa to experience the natural beauty and incredible architecture, the latter created by Alberto Alfonso, who was featured in my…
View More Poem at StreamsongA Jet Set Fantasy
When the Bernhardt Jet Set buffet flowed through the raucous column of my Tweetdeck during the #HPMkt Twitter chat on the evening of March 12th, I chased…
View More A Jet Set Fantasy