RL HOME: Summer Hill

Loving this collection from Ralph Lauren Home, Summer Hill...enjoy! DF

RALPH : Summer Interlude

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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A FAVORITE CLIENT, DFID, NAPLES

DFID (c) 2016

Pittsburgh native, Charles Fleck, has been a good client and a wonderful friend over the past 17 years or so,  we had some fun last night hanging his new painting by Rick Moore, who used to own a gallery here in Naples...(shown above)

DFID (c) 2016

I took these quick shots with my phone- we also had recently freshened up his bedroom, with new paint, carpet, curtains, and bedcoverings...keeping the mirrored wall and the existing bed, by Kreiss...Enjoy ! DF ***** 

DFID (c) 2016

 

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Happy Birthday RL !

Ralph Lauren

Happy Birthday to Ralph!  An ultimate inspiration, icon, and success in business and in life.  When Albert Hadley was asked by the Laurens to visit their Fifth Avenue apartment for a consultation, Albert took in what magic Angelo Donghia had created~(an uptown loft in white)~and was so impressed that he said he wouldn't change anything!  Brilliant! 

This crisp image of RL himself reminds me of the time I was on the beach in the famous Hamptons, and saw Calvin come out in a white terry robe, standing on a terrace, looking just like one of his own models!  New York, you gotta love it!  DF *****

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Ralph's Paris

I was excited to see that Veranda this month had featured the new "cote d'azur" china pattern...along with some other RL accoutrement since the firm I'm associated with, MP Interiors ~is also showing it prominently displayed in our suite 149...with complete interior design services available.

Click here to visit the Ralph Lauren Paris and see the fabulous new Ralph's restaurant there...both the exterior and the interior design of this amazing hotel particulier on Boulevard Saint Germain are waiting for you to explore and to enjoy!  DF ***** Ralph Lauren, 173 Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris

What's on your low table?

DFID via I-phone

Paige Rense, the legendary AD editor, liked to have coffee tables, or cocktail tables, listed as "low tables"...how suitable, since this one I was given (by Albert Hadley) is very low, at about 10 inches. 

If you are what your table is wearing, then I am a remnant of zebra hide, (from when I visited the RL furniture factory years ago), a Maitland Smith blue and white porcelain bowl, (filled with Agraria Bitter Orange potpourri), and a quirky small covered urn in a mottled brown metal, given to me years ago by my old friend Nicholas Cardone.  (Nicky and I have been friends for almost 40 years now!)

I do like the lower height of this small table with the low seat height of my antique chesterfield, which I've shown more than once in previous posts on my Naples living room.  Enjoy!  DF *****

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Pauline in My Dreams

Baroness Pauline de Rothschild

Last night, after burning my new "Saint Germain" candle from Ralph Lauren, I had the most vivid dream about the late Baroness de Rothschild....she was talking to me, and giving me a tour of her home ~and wearing a tailleur of a chic solid grey fabric, with the most elegant black patent pumps, which were quite low, and very flattering to her long legs and narrow feet.  I just discovered this blog , called the Esoteric Curious, which has a good bio of her life in a very palatable length, do read it!  Enjoy !  DF *****

"The great danger for an American woman married to a Frenchman is to become too French. To assimilate too much of another nationality weakens you. Though on the surface I might not seem to be 100 percent American, I have tried to remain as shaggy inside as possible."

Baroness Pauline de Rothschild

More May 2014 Inspirations!

Ralph Lauren Home at MP Interiors

Carleton Varney fabrics, MP Interiors

RM Coco at MPI

RM Coco at MPI

Picnic at Versailles, Miromar Design Center

West Indies Home, Naples

Bleu Provence, Naples

Bleu Provence, Naples

Enjoy! DF ***** 

Decorator Scrapbook May 2014

These pictures speak for themselves...Aerin's new book... one of our vignettes at the Miromar Design Center... the place card from a recent dinner party we attended...  highly decorative Iranian carpet seen at
Clive Daniel Home... fabulous South African wine I was served by Melinda Antonicci, an old friend from Louisiana... Cheers!  Enjoy!  DF *****

What's New at MP Interiors?

 

Marine Linard and Carleton Varney

Check out all the fabulous decorative items at MP Interiors, (formerly Webster and Company...)at the amazing, Juan Montoya designed Miromar Design Center.  Located just north of Naples, and only a two hour drive from Palm Beach, you won't be disappointed!  See the MP site here for a complete listing of all the lines we carry!  Including Lee furniture, de Gournay, Stark,  Schumacher, and Duralee...

Cheers! DF*****

Gable Lamp at RL Lighting - MP Interiors