Topic: Jamie Drake

World Market Center Las Vegas has named Jamie Drake as its 2012 Design Icon. The award, which recognizes an interior or furniture designer who has ...

Give Old Furnishings New Purpose

With a bit of imagination, furniture and found objects can do double duty in your home. Like many interior designers, Vicente Wolf (www.vicentewolf.com) has a "thing" for chairs. "I rotate the photos all the time," says Wolf, author of Crossing ...

Colorwatch: Pink

All the best designers agree: The paler shades are very sexy and soothing?great for bedrooms. ?Pink can say a lot. ?Pink is a seasonless color for me. The metallic Cindy lamp by Ferruccio Laviani (16?"h, $186; Kartell.

Designing the Good Life

Five designers share their views on luxury kitchens What defines a luxurious kitchen? K+BB asked a roundtable of pros in the know about their design approaches to and experiences in creating luxury kitchens for a high-end clientele always on the lookout ...

In This Week's Observer...

J. Christopher Flowers is putting his record-snatching Harkness Mansion back on the market.Edward Lee Cave and Hall Willkie on their gentlemen's agreement.Aby Rosen talks about turning down two $60 million buyers for his East Side mansion.Interior designer Jamie ...
Over my 15-year travel-writing career I have tested the full range of beds, from sagging sponge-like mattresses blanketed with scratchy, stiff sheets to the finest pillow-top palaces draped in gazillion-thread-count imports of luxury properties. Ironically, unlike Jessica Simpson who famously touted her ...
Somewhere beyond the sea, there’s a lot of inspiration for spring. Shades such as aqua and motifs such as coral paired with sleek, contemporary furnishings were among the top trends at the Spring Market at Laguna Design Center showrooms Tuesday. Nature ...