(credit: PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

The 2014 San Francisco Decorator Showcase takes place at 3660 Jackson Street on April 26, 2014 through May 26, 2014. The three-story house clad in climbing ficus hassix bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms in a 8,820-square-foot property overlooking the Presidio Wall. It was built in 1907 for Rose and Alfred Sutro, nephew of San Franciscos former mayor. The unique appeal of the property is evident; the house sold last year for $18 million within one week of being listed. The interior designers listed here represent East Bay-based interior designers who have been selected to contribute to past San Francisco Decorator Showcases which currently attract more than 15,000 visitors each year. From among hundreds of invitations to Bay Area designers, a short list is reviewed, from which a professional design advisory board selects each years finalists.

Blending the indoors with the outdoors to create that connection in living spaces is a specialty of this Oakland-based architecture and interior firm. From a beginning in 1998, the four-person team offers a modernist tradition that allows for a three-dimensional expression. Called the heart and soul of the group, Michelle Wempe is an award-winning designer. From a Sonoma pool house in a 13-acre meadow linking to a newly-built main house, to a Tudor-style home redesign in Piedmont, the firm tackles residential and commercial projects. A member of the American Institute of Architects, Zumaooh participated in the San Francisco Decorator Showcase in 2009, responsible for creating the homes vintners vault.

We love to mix classic, timeless interiors with modern simplicity, is the mantra from this four-person firm in business since 2002. The firms work was showcased at 2010 in Dining By Design. Versatility was displayed in a wonderful teenage girls bedroom suite at the 2012 Marin Decorator Showcase House in Belvedere, looking like far too much fun for studying. At the 2012 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, Kriste Michelini presented an intimate and glamorous master bedroom dressing room furnished with special vintage pieces. In the 2013 showcase, a third floor loft space was transformed into a light-filled writers nook, simultaneously dreamy and calm, with vibrant pops of color to shake off writers block.

The greatest satisfaction in my work is the rewarding personal connection that results from turning a house into a home, says Frank Holbrook. The capabilities are wide-ranging, including historic preservation, lighting consultation, fine art acquisition and project management. Take a tour of the results through the lovely website photography. Just add sunshine. Frank Holbrooks background is a unique blend of expertise in teaching art history, fine arts, painting and drawing before handling the restoration of some of Napas important landmark structures, bringing them to National Register of Historic Places status, including The Buford House (1887).

Laurie JM Farr is a freelance writer covering all things in her adopted San Francisco. A dedicated urbanite, shes a transplanted New Yorker by way of a couple of decades in London as a hotel sales and marketing manager. Follow her work on @ReferencePlease, USA Today, Yahoo! and on Examiner.com.

See the article here:
Best Interior Designers In The East Bay

BOB CRAIG

GANNAS GOWNS: Madame Ganna Walskas couture clothing makes up part of the exhibit Enemy of the Average.

Lotuslands Cultural ContextRevealed

The title of the current exhibition at Lotusland amplifies a declaration that Madame Ganna Walska once made about herself. I am the enemy of the average, she said, thus aligning her taste with that of several other extraordinary international figures of her era, including the decorator and socialite Elsie de Wolfe, Dodie Rosekrans, and the genius interior decorator, set designer, and jeweler Tony Duquette. On Saturday, March 8, Lotusland presented a slide lecture by Hutton Wilkinson to accompany the exhibit, and Wilkinson, Duquettes former business partner and an important decorator and designer in his own right, captivated the crowd at this sold-out event with sly humor, encyclopedic knowledge, and an awesome collection of images. As a sought-after decorator with an elite clientele, Wilkinson claims that he has never had to do more than one house a year, which is wonderful because it leaves him time to decorate his own home (which has been featured admiringly in Vanity Fair), give these charming talks, and write multiple books about his great friend and mentor, TonyDuquette.

Through his lecture, which was often hilarious, Wilkinson illuminated the fascinating and inexplicably neglected subculture of fantasy and glamour that swirled around some of the worlds richest women beginning in the early 20th century and lasting into the 21st. Several members of the audience, clearly hip to the scene, arrived decked out in Duquette jewelry and were singled out for recognition by thespeaker.

The Duquette style mixes high and low recklessly, pairing priceless antiques with such detritus as repurposed cafeteria trays in pursuit of dazzling effects. Wilkinson characterized the sensibility that he shares with Duquette in terms of color by saying, Coral to me is like white. Its almost a neutral. These Los Angeles artists came of age in the era of the surrealists. Once when Duquettes wife, Elizabeth Beegle Johnstone, entered a Hollywood party with a variegated ivy leaf in her hair as a decoration, it so impressed Man Ray that he ran to get his camera and took her photo. Like the surrealists, their emphasis was on bringing something fantastic to life, or, as Wilkinson put it in describing Duquettes film work, to portray dreams caught in the net ofreality.

Most interesting for those who dote on Lotusland were the suggestions Wilkinson made about how Duquettes work may have influenced Ganna Walska, and there were several. First of all, Duquette created several fantastic private environments for himself, two of which his 150-acre fantasy ranch in Malibu and his San Francisco temple for St. Francis were subsequently destroyed by fire. Along with Dawnridge, the legendary Beverly Hills home that Duquette transformed into a tour de force of design gone wild, these three estates make up some of the most useful analogues available to those seeking to understand the context in which Madame Walska created her masterpiece in Montecito. In addition, Duquette was sometimes referred to as Tony Abalone for his profligate use of the shell, a gesture one sees repeated in Lotuslands aloe garden, which is anchored by a white-bottomed abalone-shell pool. Wilkinson also emphasized Duquettes passion for creativity and his undying enthusiasm for encouraging it in others, such as his dear friend Ganna Walska. Beauty, not luxury, Duquette was known to exclaim when people expressed shock that he would combine high-priced items with recycled refuse, and upon consideration, this credo is not at all a bad way to begin thinking about the stimulating strangeness of Ganna Walskas creations, as well. This visionary company of style existed in a heroic era for fantasy, and Lotusland remains the greatest monument to their collectiveachievement.

Originally posted here:
Ganna Walska and Tony Duquette

Monday, March 17, 2014, by Spencer Peterson

After spending nearly a year on the market in search of $2,995,000, Atlanta, Ga.'s so-called 'European Stunner' of a mansion might be due for a price cut, or maybe a little TLC from an interior designer. Though the loud shade of teal covering the kitchen, the shutters, and the French doors is certainly "stunning"no questions therebut when paired with the verging-on-gaudy furniture choices, it gives the place a bit of a cramped, loony feel, and with over 9,000 square feet crammed onto 1.3 acres, it can't really afford to get any tighter. To be sure, this circa 1940 five-bedroom has a bunch of things worth keeping; hardwood floors, "many unique chandeliers," Sherle Wagner sinks, a "garden room," a hedge-lined pool, a two-bedroom carriage house. But spending season after season on the market without changing up one's approach might be the definition of real estate insanity. For now, check out the decorative craziness on the inside, including the mosaic-covered steps in the entryway and one tiny, resplendently pink sitting room.

See the rest here:
On the Market: WWII-Era Manse in Dire Need of a Decorator Holds Out for $3M

Interior Decorator Singapore
Visit our site http://www.carpenters.sg/profile/service for more information on Interior Decorator Singapore.An Interior Design Singapore could help you to u...

By: Dia Feil

Read more:
Interior Decorator Singapore - Video

17 women in Venezuela have died after having illegal buttock injections The practice is carried out in illegal makeshift surgeries 'Dr Gus' is a practitioner and performed the injections on a 20-year-old patient for ABC News cameras In the U.S. there have been deaths from black market buttocks injections in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New York

By Alex Greig

PUBLISHED: 14:20 EST, 15 March 2014 | UPDATED: 15:06 EST, 15 March 2014

11 shares

16

View comments

The trend for curvaceous rear ends shows no sign of abating, with women across the U.S. and the world risking their lives for black market procedures to make their bottoms bigger.

Deaths from black market buttocks injections have been reported in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New York. An interior decorator in Mississippi faces trial in the deaths of two women who were injected at her house.

In Venezuela, more than a dozen women have died from botched butt injections, but that hasn't stopped the illegal procedure being performed by practitioners such as 'Dr Gus,' who, for $300, will inject young women's rears with biopolymers in his Caracas apartment.

Prepping: Dr Gus prepares to perform illegal surgery in his Caracas apartment

Continued here:
Meet the Venezuelan doctor who performs illegal, cut-rate butt injections on women wanting bigger backsides

Gunvor (Gunny) Inga-Britt Tiburzi, 93, of Pompano Beach, Fla. and a longtime resident of Ridgefield died with family members at her side on March 3.

Ms. Tiburzi was born in Stockholm, Sweden and immigrated to the United States in the 1930s. She was an accomplished artist, model, interior decorator and homemaker.

She is survived by her daughter Anita M. Tiburzi- Johnson, son Allan R. Tiburzi and daughter-in-law Karen N. Tiburzi, daughter Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo and son-in-law Bruce F. Caputo and grandchildren, Wendy C. Tiburzi Yancey, James W. Johnson, A. Anthony Caputo, B. Britt Caputo and five great-grandchildren.

Ms. Tiburzi is predeceased by August R. Tiburzi and her grandson Michael A. Tiburzi.

A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday March 22, at St. Martin Episcopal Church, 140 S.E. 28 Ave., Pompano Beach, FL. Donations may be made in her name to St. Jude Childrens Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN. 38105

Read this article:
Gunvor Tiburzi, 93, artist, model, decorator

Minecraft PE (4) fail interior decorator
this episode i furnashe my house but it is harder than it looks sub to get more byyyyyyeeeee.

By: Mectrex

See more here:
Minecraft PE (4) fail interior decorator - Video

Fifteen Central Park West is New Yorks most exclusive address, an aerie of hedgefunders and celebrities, where a penthouse costs $40 million and a wine cellar costs $80,000 more.

In researching my book, The House of Outrageous Fortune, I learned that F. Scott Fitzgerald was right: The rich are different.

Heres a peek inside the $1 billion building:

The doormen at 15 Central Park West.Photo: Angel Chevrestt

A small army waits on 15 Central Park Wests residents.

There are seven concierges, six doormen, eight white-gloved lobby attendants, three package-room attendants, eight porters, a maintenance man, four security guards, 12 part-time engineers and an administrative assistant. Six people man Fifteens lobbies by day, two each for the doors, concierge desks and lobbies. Three more work the package room, and four porters and one or two engineers are always on duty.

Working at a building like 15CPW can be lucrative. Some titans of Wall Street tip very well.

The staff was excited when Sandy Weill, former chairman of Citigroup, handed out about $90,000 in his first year. But they were disappointed after that.

In 2008, he was very generous, says a former staffer, but the second year they cut their tips in half.

An ex-staffer recalls another early move-in, a former Goldman Sachs partner. It was December 2007 and he arrived bearing gifts, Christmas tips for everyone on the staff, even though hed just met them.

Go here to read the rest:
Inside the walls of swanky 15 Central Park West

How to find the right Interior Decorator in Kolkata ?
Welcome to Essquare Furniture Interiors. If you are looking for quality furniture in contemporary or traditional style at affordable prices, you are in the...

By: Subrata Kumar

Read the rest here:
How to find the right Interior Decorator in Kolkata ? - Video

Pnina Wilkins, an interior designer and past president of Hadassah, died Feb. 22 of heart failure at Seasons Hospice in Randallstown. She was 90.

The daughter of Benjamin Laikin, a wiping cloths manufacturer, and Anna Golomb Laikin, a homemaker, Pnina Laikin was born in Baltimore and later moved with her family to Detroit.

After graduating from high school in Detroit, she attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a year. She left Wisconsin after she met her future husband, Stanley Wilkins, in Atlantic City, N.J., during a family vacation.

The couple married in 1943, and after living for a few years in Detroit, moved to Mount Airy and then to Pikesville in 1963.

After owning several businesses, Mr. Wilkins went to work in the automobile business in 1950 and founded Wilkins Buick Inc. in Glen Burnie in 1969, which is now Wilkins Automotive. During the 1970s, he established Wilkins Yacht Sales in Edgewater that specialized in selling Hatteras Yachts.

Mrs. Wilkins, an interior decorator, was the founder in the 1980s of Bay Country Interiors, Dibert/Wilkins Associates of Towson, that designed residential interiors and later yacht interiors.

She was a longtime member and served as president of the Baltimore chapter of Hadassah from 1975 to 1977.

A resident of Pikesville for more than 50 years, she was an accomplished pianist and studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She also designed and made jewelry and her own clothes.

Later in life, she designed and produced luxurious multi-colored blankets, throws and shawls, that combined wool, silk and cotton yarns.

Mrs. Wilkins and her husband, who died in 2001, enjoyed spending time on the Arrowhead, their 61-foot yacht.

Read the original post:
Pnina Wilkins, interior designer