tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post2377016896750590595..comments2024-03-18T00:57:26.347-04:00Comments on The Peak of Chic®: I Need Your Help!The Peak of Chichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811933436075145329noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-75024723204129547822018-02-19T14:26:38.181-05:002018-02-19T14:26:38.181-05:00I dearly miss your newsletters.....Please include ...I dearly miss your newsletters.....Please include CARLOS MOTA. Thank you! Looking forward to the book :)Amoxtlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226926584176926709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-18150243525613967782017-08-31T15:38:36.092-04:002017-08-31T15:38:36.092-04:00William Haynes indeed! Just LOOK at Betsy Blooming...William Haynes indeed! Just LOOK at Betsy Bloomingdale's interiors.(sigh) if only I had a Diners club!jwilltrainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023749650168884148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-29688887488304668382017-07-24T14:40:20.093-04:002017-07-24T14:40:20.093-04:00Ralph Lauren created some fabulous showcases for h...Ralph Lauren created some fabulous showcases for his home collections.tehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03967111420485879252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-76309501979900012872017-07-13T16:12:49.974-04:002017-07-13T16:12:49.974-04:00I am not involved in any professional way with des...I am not involved in any professional way with design and decoration. Yet monthly I treasure reading the magazine The World of Interiors. It names and illustrates the sources for many of the products used, both new and antique. The book reviews connect with many of my interests. Many of the spaces and buildings illustrated are of interest historically, and are done by expert photographers. The editors of that magazine have piqued and stirred up interest in areas and fields of study that I did not know. For my money, they are the tops because they give me new eyes to see design differently. I see the work of many of the names mentioned above with more careful and critical appreciation. Put these editors on the list. By the way, I miss you Blog a lot.<br />davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07296522241037361175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-69318995773468301452017-07-12T18:41:49.385-04:002017-07-12T18:41:49.385-04:00I would say that the most influential designer of ...I would say that the most influential designer of the last 100 years is Frank Lloyd Wright. He isn't a interior designer in the usual sense, but his architecture has changed how we live in our homes. Other designers play with pretty fabrics, but Mr. Wright creates new spaces.Fred Unwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12831398437707102682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-51434806049850131782017-07-12T18:35:34.028-04:002017-07-12T18:35:34.028-04:00Sister ParrishSister Parrishashleylmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00533782891055719640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-12917651298221530832017-07-11T10:44:01.508-04:002017-07-11T10:44:01.508-04:00It it's a matter of looking at the 20th centur...It it's a matter of looking at the 20th century through a strictly American lens, then Albert Hadley's work stands the test of time in a way which somehow goes beyond eras or epochs. Influences come from many sources--some of them quite subtle. But the role of design magazines cannot be denied. Were it not for their coverage of Mr Baldwin, Mrs Parish, Mrs Draper, Mr Fowler, Mr Buatta etc then there would be no vehicle for the dissemination of taste. Which of us has had the privilege of taking tea in Mrs Lancaster's rooms or hung out with Daisy Fellowes in her Georges Geoffrey settings? (Well, perhaps that reference to Geoffrey was a stretch, since he falls into the category of elusive European, only just now on the radar, at least here in the USA. )<br />Toby Worthingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04494294732826925579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-5765265985441698442017-07-10T20:03:52.100-04:002017-07-10T20:03:52.100-04:00Ward BennettWard BennettSalliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14797851555712313249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-33989607333580722342017-07-03T14:34:13.710-04:002017-07-03T14:34:13.710-04:00I will miss your postings!
I do second the sheer ...I will miss your postings! <br />I do second the sheer lasting marketing commercial and retail coverage of Laura Ashley, Pierre Cardin, Oscar de la Renta -- and yes -- even Martha Stewart. I will add Charles Faudree and Dan Carithers. Also the ever-deepening tie between movies and décor marketing - so I do nominate Nancy Meyers.<br />Cheers! And do update us on your book's progress so I can look for it! <br /><br />Jan at Rosemary Cottage Teacatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06899566893360863672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-14848243985594747092017-06-30T09:44:49.923-04:002017-06-30T09:44:49.923-04:00Thank you! Very kind of you.Thank you! Very kind of you.The Peak of Chichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811933436075145329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-50250598502454140332017-06-29T18:55:28.089-04:002017-06-29T18:55:28.089-04:00Soo glad you're doing a new book but I miss th...Soo glad you're doing a new book but I miss the blogs too! Good luck and happy hunting!tehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03967111420485879252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-27653236034150421832017-06-20T12:49:52.038-04:002017-06-20T12:49:52.038-04:00Alexander GirardAlexander GirardAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13187080329910313382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-54743900605010402592017-06-17T10:52:44.630-04:002017-06-17T10:52:44.630-04:00I believe designers who commission great works fro...I believe designers who commission great works from artists in different rarified fields must be included. Without patrons such as Medici there would have been no Renaissance and names such as Leonardo and Raphael would be lost to history. So I ask you to include: Howard Slatkin, Alidad, and Ann GettyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-58864774814208079702017-06-14T12:15:19.234-04:002017-06-14T12:15:19.234-04:00David Hicks, Renzo MongiardinoDavid Hicks, Renzo MongiardinoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-22719205912153827622017-06-13T17:04:49.755-04:002017-06-13T17:04:49.755-04:00Furlow GatewoodFurlow GatewoodMy Life of Domestic Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07151181118032143999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-80373815489181905582017-06-10T17:09:40.325-04:002017-06-10T17:09:40.325-04:00Would like to add Rose Uniacke .Would like to add Rose Uniacke .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-91263270706644715642017-06-06T15:50:11.138-04:002017-06-06T15:50:11.138-04:00Jennifer, I am thrilled you will be doing a new bo...Jennifer, I am thrilled you will be doing a new book on the 100 most important designers of the last century.<br /><br />I would nominate Frances Elkins, an iconic designer who was praised as influential by some of the best designers, decorators, and architects of the 20th Century. I am doing research for a new book on her work, drawing from previously unpublished photos and other documentation of her over 250 private and public commissions.<br /><br />I second the suggestions of Jean-Michel Frank, Billy Baldwin, Ruby Ross Wood, Stéphane Boudin /Maison Jansen, Elsie de Wolfe, Eleanor Brown, Dorothy Draper, Michael Greer, Syrie Maugham, William Haines, Michael Taylor, Angelo Donghia, Albert Hadley, Sister Parish, Tony Duquette, Mark Hampton, Bunny Williams, and Mario Buatta.<br /><br />I also recommend you consider the lesser remembered talents Hobe Erwin of New York, whose impeccably crisp work was often published in the 1920s-1940s, Kalef Aleton of Los Angeles, a major figure in the later decades of the 20th Century, Billy Gaylord of San Francisco (admired by Billy Baldwin), a popular West Coast decorator from the late Sixties to the mid-1980s and Suzanne Tucker, perhaps the leading San Francisco designer today.<br /><br />And I think you should include the superstar textile designer Dorothy Liebes, who often collaborated with Elkins starting about 1936. She was hired by a large number of companies to design woven materials. Her upholstery and window fabrics were incorporated by many designers including William Haines and Samuel Marx.<br /><br />You could consider the completely forgotten Cornelia Conger, a Chicago decorator who collaborated with Frances Elkins and David Adler on certain homes in California and Illinois. She had an outstanding grasp of classical design mixed with modern-day comfort.<br /><br />Scott PowellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-61387764796484006932017-06-06T10:02:50.317-04:002017-06-06T10:02:50.317-04:00Another fashion designer who influenced many of us...Another fashion designer who influenced many of us interior designers [via his various published houses] was Oscar de la Renta.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-15540951336797187302017-06-06T06:16:29.779-04:002017-06-06T06:16:29.779-04:00Roger Banks-Pye, John Stefanidis, Nicky Haslam, Te...Roger Banks-Pye, John Stefanidis, Nicky Haslam, Terence Conran.. I think all the others I'd mention are already listed aboveHeidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01432089507602828735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-35888729068511810732017-06-05T15:50:17.570-04:002017-06-05T15:50:17.570-04:00And more...! Madeleine Castaing, Anousia Hempel, R...And more...! Madeleine Castaing, Anousia Hempel, Rita Konig and Tessa Kennedy.home before darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13272062955786414729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-53290084422082209252017-06-05T13:14:49.806-04:002017-06-05T13:14:49.806-04:00Jansen, the pope of interior design, of course!Jansen, the pope of interior design, of course!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-65861601449380571712017-06-05T12:18:15.678-04:002017-06-05T12:18:15.678-04:00Slightly off topic: Trying to recall an interview ...Slightly off topic: Trying to recall an interview I read lonnng ago....either in House & Garden or in Vogue....Billy Baldwin telling of the employment interview he had with RRW. She told him to go around the corner to Kresge five and dime store, and bring back the 10 best designed things he could find. This was long before I entered the design field, but I've never forgotten the simple brilliance of it, and to this day I put myself through the same exercise when I'm in Dollar Tree or WalMart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-57169239573766145912017-06-05T07:21:14.864-04:002017-06-05T07:21:14.864-04:00Dorothy DraperDorothy DraperAlison at The Gracious Possehttp://thegraciousposse.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-70037764690533546752017-06-04T20:58:03.787-04:002017-06-04T20:58:03.787-04:00Sister Parish...taught A HadleySister Parish...taught A HadleyPietra Brandolinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727468818427013448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34961211.post-77680466163245996672017-06-04T15:04:42.735-04:002017-06-04T15:04:42.735-04:00Mario Buatta, Charles Foudree, Arthur Elrod, Joe D...Mario Buatta, Charles Foudree, Arthur Elrod, Joe D'Urso, Mica Ertegun & Chessy Rayner, Frances Elkins, Jean Michel FrankEditorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07704861426437027303noreply@blogger.com