SUMMER: Cool

Although currently am working on 8 houses plus one restaurant...will still find time to say cool this Summer ! DF

GARDEN: European Garden Designs on Instagram

One of my favorite instagram accounts is @europeangardendesigns ...

Instagram and 2021!!!

 Greetings and Happy New Year's...!  Follow me on @farrisdean on Instagram to track my latest images...

Dean Farris Interior Design (c) 2021

Find me at Miromar Design Center, 10800 Corkscrew Road, suite 188 or 149...

Call me on (239) 498-9074

Email me at deanfarrisint@gmail.com 

Bon chance ~!  DF  link here:  Miromar Design Center

RICH READING: Elegant Emily Evans Eerdmans

Mario Buatta, AD

Summer reads from E.E.E... and to quote this fabulous connoisseur of decorative arts: "I don't know about you, but it feels as if summer has just arrived this very moment.  Could there be anything better to fill the long, languorous days than a delicious book -"

What could be better than learning from past and present authorities on design and decoration?

Emily Evans Eerdmans has a prolific portfolio:

CLASSIC ENGLISH DESIGN AND ANTIQUES (2006)

REGENCY REDUX (2008)

THE WORLD OF MADELEINE CASTAING (2010)

MARIO BUATTA, FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN INTERIOR DECORATION (2013)

WENDELL CASTLE (2016)

HENRI SAMUEL: MASTER OF THE FRENCH INTERIOR (2018) 

E.E.E. has also written and writes for AD and House Beautiful... teaches at NYSID,  has a youtube on her Hillwood talk - and one can follow her on Instagram: @emily_evans_eerdmans -Impressive!

www.eerdmansfineart.com 

ENJOY-!  (all books available on Amazon) DF

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“One of the lessons I’ve learned from Mario as a designer and friend is that life is for living. This extended to his rooms, which were pure joy. He was a magician pairing aubergine with cornflower blue, lemon yellow with watermelon pink. He also understood the importance of comfort, something he often lamented that many of today’s 'curated' interiors are missing. But what I will most miss is his sense of humor—another one of his secret weapons, which earned him legions of friends, fans and clients.” — Emily Evans Eerdmans, co-author of Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration

VINTAGE LUXE: Revisiting The Pink Door!

The Pink Door, Inc. Greensboro, North Carolina

I'm excited to get to travel back to the Carolinas next month, and to make another visit to a favorite haunt, The Pink Door, in Greensboro. 

While enjoying the south Florida heat, I'll be planning my trip to North Carolina- always a treat, since my family is there.  Read more about The Pink Door here and enjoy! 

The proprietor, Glenn Blair Lavinder, has a flair for using vintage pieces amidst architectural backgrounds.  Brilliant!  Follow along on Instagram !  I love the glamour of this shop and design studio!

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DESIGNER SKETCHES, Weekend Inspirations

Dean Farris Interior Design

Albert Hadley

DFID

Dean Farris Interior Design

From my student days at FIT



DFID

Parish-Hadley

Detail from a DeGournay wall paper

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Fla.

Decorator-designer Ruth Condit at Ralph Lauren Home



With Julie C. Britt and William R. Rain at Mecox Road, Watermill, New York

Putti, shot on my last trip to NYC

 

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HURRICANE SEASON, Carolyne and Ralph

via Carolyne Roehm

I couldn't resist this image featuring Carolyne Roehm's use of the "Classic" hurricanes by Ralph Lauren Home... Inspiring!

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ENLIGHTENED: Images for a Rainy Day

Thomas Britt, via Veranda

via Nan and Thomas Kempner

Follow Nan Kempner on Instagram here !  See her NYT obituary here ! Her legend of style and taste lives on!

via my phone, Highlands, NC

Kevin McNamara



Jeffrey Bilhuber

DeGournay, via House Beautiful

Mrs. Henry Parish, II

Loi Thai, via Tone on Tone

Leta Austin Foster

Bethany O'Neil

While I've posted some of these before, I thought it might be fun to find favorite images to brighten up a gloomy morning- the charm of floral motifs in decorating, combined with a love of chinoiserie and granny smith apple green are recurring themes of mine!  Enjoy!  DF *****

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A MOMENT, The Nostalgia of Tradition

(c) DFID

More Spring cleaning prompted this post on how my Naples, Fla. apartment takes me back to a time when technology was less invasive in our personal lives.  Perhaps these images (via I-phone) demonstrate my point?

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I don't think my flat screen television could get any smaller- !

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Trending on Instagram: William Rankin McLure, IV

Artist William McLure, via Instagram 

We're all about this young Southern artist, William R. McLure...check out some of his paintings below...

William McLure, via Facebook

William McLure, via Facebook

via Facebook

The hot designer-blogger Mark D. Sikes also recently posted about William...see "Change is Good" so titled since William, like so many young designers and artists loves to constantly re-arrange his furnishings and art.  DF *****