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| Dean with designer Susan Zises Green, Kips Bay PB Showhouse 2017 |
Thanks to the prodding of my good friend the designer, Steven Matable, Billy and I visited Palm Beach
(with Steve) to see the first annual Kips Bay Palm Beach Decorator Showhouse -
I was tickled pink to run into Susan Zises Green there, as she was a friend of my former mentor and friend, the late Tice Alexander. Her room was a stunning confection in Quadrille and Alan Campbell prints with a delicious shade of amethyst playing off of a unique one of a kind rug.
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| Susan Zises Green, via House Beautiful |
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| Designer Steven Matable in Lisa Erdmann's room- KBPBDS 2017 |
We got a kick out of this bright yellow room by Lisa Erdmann Associates-
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| Bierly-Drake for KBPBDS 2017 |
Loved this chair treatment, possibly inspired by Pauline de Rothschild...
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| Stephen Mooney for KBPBDS 2017 |
This upstairs library by Stephen Mooney reminded me of the New York penthouse I worked on with the late Parkin Saunders- where once upon a time Joan Crawford lived!
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| Christopher Maya for KBPBDS 2017 |
One of my favorite rooms was this one- as it had a Giacometti white plaster lantern, table top, and wall plaque !!!
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| Fernando Wong for KBPBDS 2017 |
This modern sculpture in the garden was the first thing you saw upon approaching the house- stunning!
Perhaps the best of all was visiting my dear friend, decorator Louise Cronan at her restored 1924 cottage near El Cid...it seemed as if we left one showhouse and entered another! No surprise as she is one of the most brilliant designers I know.
Her mother decorated the house in Atlanta that Miles Redd grew up in! A very talented family to say the least. DF *****
