Fine Living: Sausalito’s Suzanne Tucker shares her secrets for interiors

By PJ Bremier IJ correspondent

INTERIOR DESIGNER Suzanne Tucker's newly released book, "Interiors: The Romance of Design" (288 pages, Monicelli Press, $65), is a lush coffee-table book that features a dozen homes she's designed. They range from a cozy country bungalow to a crisp apartment in San Francisco's Millennium Tower to a spectacular lodge home in Sun Valley.

Within the gorgeously styled and photographed pages are illustrative chapters on Tucker's own stylish home and her two showcase spaces a dining room for the 2010 San Francisco Decorator Showcase and the living room for Villa Belvedere, the 2012 Marin Designers Showcase, which also graces the tome's cover.

Sausalito resident Suzanne Tucker has just released her second book, 'Interiors: The Romance of Design' (The Monacelli Press, $65). Photo by Michal Venera

Tucker, who lives in Sausalito with her husband, Tim Marks, is managing projects across the country; a formal city residence, a rustic ranch, a modern apartment, a classic California Spanish revival, the Auberge du Soleil maisons and a historic house on the Hudson River.

Despite this schedule, she managed to answer some questions on her design approach:

Q: What does your Santa Barbara upbringing bring to your design?

A: Growing up in Montecito, the world was certainly my architectural and horticultural oyster! My sister and I would spend days on end building forts out of whatever organic materials we would find to create our fantasies. And as a child, I loved my parents' dinner parties, the set-up, the silver and china, and tagging along with them so I could see their friends' houses and explore the gardens. It all strongly developed my love of design, the decorative arts, architecture and garden design. It also influenced my approach to my projects in that I love creating homes that are essentially charming and individual and, yes, romantic.

Q: What are your three design essentials?

A: Balance, proportion and scale. Amen!

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Fine Living: Sausalito's Suzanne Tucker shares her secrets for interiors