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7022cb6265adedf1105110780b53fa8830f5c5cc · 2026-05-12 08:48:37 -0700 · Steve Abrams
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Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date: Tue May 12 08:48:37 2026 -0700
expand directory: 26 → 88 designers (added historic foundational + mid-century + contemporary diverse voices, era_sort sorted)
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[
+ {
+ "slug": "elsie-de-wolfe",
+ "name": "Elsie de Wolfe",
+ "headline": "The woman who invented the profession",
+ "era": "Early 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1910,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Anti-Victorian",
+ "Chintz",
+ "French Eighteenth-Century"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1905–1950",
+ "bio": "Elsie de Wolfe took the dark, cluttered Victorian American interior and stripped it back to white walls, painted furniture, chintz, and light — a single 1905 commission for the Colony Club is often cited as the founding job of the profession in America. She wrote \"The House in Good Taste\" in 1913 and ran a Manhattan and Paris practice through the 1940s.",
+ "signature": "White walls, glazed trellis, eighteenth-century French furniture, chintz, and a horror of clutter.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Trellis & Garden Lattice",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/trellis"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Chinoiserie",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/chinoiserie"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral Chintz",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "ruby-ross-wood",
+ "name": "Ruby Ross Wood",
+ "headline": "The editor who became Baldwin's teacher",
+ "era": "Early 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1925,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "American Country",
+ "Quiet Color",
+ "Editorial Restraint"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1914–1950",
+ "bio": "A House Beautiful editor turned decorator, Ruby Ross Wood ghostwrote Elsie de Wolfe's \"The House in Good Taste,\" then built her own practice in New York and trained Billy Baldwin as her assistant. Her rooms favored quiet color, painted floors, and what she called \"the look of a room that has always been there.\"",
+ "signature": "Painted floors, soft color washes, scrubbed-floor American Country anchored by one good antique.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Botanical",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral Chintz",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "syrie-maugham",
+ "name": "Syrie Maugham",
+ "headline": "The mother of the all-white room",
+ "era": "Early 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1930,
+ "city": "London, UK",
+ "styles": [
+ "All-White",
+ "Pickled Pine",
+ "Hollywood Glamour"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1922–1955",
+ "bio": "Syrie Maugham's 1930 King's Road drawing room — white walls, white slipcovers, pickled pine, mirrored screens — created an aesthetic so influential that \"the all-white room\" is still her phrase. She decorated for Wallis Simpson, Tallulah Bankhead, and a generation of London and Hollywood houses before WWII.",
+ "signature": "Pickled bleached pine, white-on-white textures, mirrored screens, plaster palm-frond sconces.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Solid",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "jean-michel-frank",
+ "name": "Jean-Michel Frank",
+ "headline": "Parisian minimalist before minimalism existed",
+ "era": "Early 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1935,
+ "city": "Paris, France",
+ "styles": [
+ "Minimalist",
+ "Parchment",
+ "Modernist Luxe"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1925–1941",
+ "bio": "Jean-Michel Frank stripped the Parisian luxury interior down to parchment walls, straw marquetry, and a few perfect objects — Giacometti lamps, leather sofas, sharkskin tables. Clients included the Rockefellers, the Noailles, and Hermès. His work was the spiritual ancestor of every minimalist interior that came after.",
+ "signature": "Parchment walls, straw marquetry, low neutral seating, Giacometti bronze, near-empty rooms.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Solid Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
{
"slug": "dorothy-draper",
"name": "Dorothy Draper",
@@ -6,14 +126,87 @@
"era": "Mid-Century",
"era_sort": 1940,
"city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["Maximalist", "Baroque Modern", "Hospitality"],
+ "styles": [
+ "Maximalist",
+ "Baroque Modern",
+ "Hospitality"
+ ],
"active_years": "1923–1969",
"bio": "Dorothy Draper founded the first commercial interior design firm in the United States in 1923. Her bold use of color — most famously the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia — invented the concept of \"hospitality design\" as we now know it. Plaster moldings painted in carnival colors, oversized chintz, black-and-white checkerboard floors. Anti-good-taste. Anti-restraint.",
"signature": "Cabbage rose chintz, supersized scale, Wedgwood plaster ceilings.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Floral & Chintz Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral" },
- { "label": "Damask Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask" },
- { "label": "Maya Romanoff Beaded", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/maya-romanoff" }
+ {
+ "label": "Floral & Chintz Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Maya Romanoff Beaded",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/maya-romanoff"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "frances-elkins",
+ "name": "Frances Elkins",
+ "headline": "California modernism with Beaux-Arts grace",
+ "era": "Mid-Century",
+ "era_sort": 1940,
+ "city": "Monterey, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "California Modernism",
+ "European Antiques",
+ "Restraint"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1918–1953",
+ "bio": "Frances Elkins ran her practice from the Casa Amesti in Monterey and decorated Pebble Beach, Lake Forest, and Hawaiian houses with a mix of Jean-Michel Frank parchment, Diego Giacometti bronze, and serious European antiques — the first American practitioner to bridge European modernism and American comfort.",
+ "signature": "Parchment walls, \"Loop chairs\" of her own design, Spanish-Colonial bones, modernist light fixtures.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "eleanor-mcmillen-brown",
+ "name": "Eleanor McMillen Brown",
+ "headline": "Founder of McMillen Inc, America's first full-service firm",
+ "era": "Mid-Century",
+ "era_sort": 1945,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "American Classical",
+ "French Eighteenth-Century",
+ "Restrained"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1924–1991",
+ "bio": "Eleanor McMillen Brown founded McMillen Inc in 1924 as the first formally organized interior-decorating firm in America, with draftsmen, project managers, and a workroom. Her aesthetic was strict French eighteenth-century mixed with American comfort, executed for clients like the Rockefellers and the Whitneys.",
+ "signature": "Parchment-and-celadon palettes, Aubusson rugs, French eighteenth-century chairs, painted floors.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ }
]
},
{
@@ -23,14 +216,57 @@
"era": "Mid-Century",
"era_sort": 1950,
"city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["American Country", "Traditional", "Layered"],
+ "styles": [
+ "American Country",
+ "Traditional",
+ "Layered"
+ ],
"active_years": "1933–1994",
"bio": "Dorothy May Kinnicutt — \"Sister\" Parish — founded Parish-Hadley with Albert Hadley and decorated the Kennedy White House. She is credited with codifying the American Country aesthetic: hooked rugs, painted floors, four-poster beds, English chintz layered against simple American antiques.",
"signature": "Patchwork quilts, painted floorboards, faded chintz, hand-painted floral wallpaper.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Floral Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral" },
- { "label": "Toile Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile" },
- { "label": "Schumacher Hand-Prints", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher" }
+ {
+ "label": "Floral Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Schumacher Hand-Prints",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "madeleine-castaing",
+ "name": "Madeleine Castaing",
+ "headline": "Romantic Russian-French maximalism",
+ "era": "Mid-Century",
+ "era_sort": 1950,
+ "city": "Paris, France",
+ "styles": [
+ "Russian-Romantic",
+ "Layered Color",
+ "Antiquarian"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1940–1992",
+ "bio": "Madeleine Castaing ran an antiques shop on rue Jacob in Paris from the 1940s through the 1980s and decorated houses for Chaim Soutine and Jean Cocteau in a palette of forget-me-not blue, faded chintz, leopard, and Napoleon III curlicue. Her own house at Lèves was the cult pilgrimage.",
+ "signature": "Forget-me-not blue, leopard-print carpet, Napoleon III seating, antiquarian books, chintz.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Animal Print",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/animal-print"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ }
]
},
{
@@ -40,14 +276,27 @@
"era": "Mid-Century",
"era_sort": 1955,
"city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["Traditional", "Editorial", "American Modern"],
+ "styles": [
+ "Traditional",
+ "Editorial",
+ "American Modern"
+ ],
"active_years": "1956–2012",
"bio": "Albert Hadley joined Parish-Hadley in 1962 and served as the firm's design lead until 1994. Where Sister Parish layered, Hadley pared down — a single perfect Mark Rothko, a Louis XVI chair, a pencil-stripe wall. He decorated for Brooke Astor, Babe Paley, and Vice President Rockefeller.",
"signature": "Library red, lacquered walls, geometric stripe wallpaper, restraint.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Striped Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe" },
- { "label": "Solid Lacquer Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid" },
- { "label": "Phillip Jeffries Grasscloth", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/phillip-jeffries" }
+ {
+ "label": "Striped Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Solid Lacquer Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Phillip Jeffries Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/phillip-jeffries"
+ }
]
},
{
@@ -57,14 +306,57 @@
"era": "Mid-Century",
"era_sort": 1960,
"city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["Tailored", "Mid-Century Modern", "Editorial"],
+ "styles": [
+ "Tailored",
+ "Mid-Century Modern",
+ "Editorial"
+ ],
"active_years": "1935–1983",
"bio": "Billy Baldwin decorated for Cole Porter, Jacqueline Kennedy, Diana Vreeland, and Bunny Mellon. He preached editing — \"be faithful to your own taste, no one will ever like what you do unless you do it yourself\" — and is credited with making the brown lacquered library a permanent fixture of the Manhattan apartment.",
"signature": "Brown-lacquer libraries, brass étagères, slipper chairs, plain off-white walls.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Solid & Tonal Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid" },
- { "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth" },
- { "label": "Lacquered Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/lacquer" }
+ {
+ "label": "Solid & Tonal Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Lacquered Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/lacquer"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "tony-duquette",
+ "name": "Tony Duquette",
+ "headline": "Hollywood Regency theatrical maximalist",
+ "era": "Mid-Century",
+ "era_sort": 1960,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Hollywood Regency",
+ "Maximalist",
+ "Theatrical"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1941–1999",
+ "bio": "Tony Duquette decorated for Doris Duke, Mary Pickford, and the Duchess of Windsor — and won a Tony Award for set design in 1961. His own Dawnridge house in Beverly Hills was a layered fantasy of malachite, gilt coral, Venetian glass, and Chinese pagodas. Maximalism's patron saint.",
+ "signature": "Malachite, gilt coral, Venetian blackamoors, jeweled wall ornaments, pagoda and chinoiserie motifs.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Chinoiserie",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/chinoiserie"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Gold Leaf",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/gold-leaf"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Glass Beaded",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/glass-beaded"
+ }
]
},
{
@@ -74,14 +366,117 @@
"era": "Mid-Century",
"era_sort": 1965,
"city": "London, UK",
- "styles": ["Geometric", "British Modernism", "Color-Block"],
+ "styles": [
+ "Geometric",
+ "British Modernism",
+ "Color-Block"
+ ],
"active_years": "1954–1998",
"bio": "David Hicks broke from English country-house decoration by combining antiques with hard-edge geometric carpets and tablescapes of objects grouped by color. The hexagonal Hicks pattern is still in production. He decorated for Helena Rubinstein, the Prince of Wales, and his own family at Britwell Salome.",
"signature": "Hexagonal hex carpets, magenta-and-orange color-blocking, tablescapes.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Geometric Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric" },
- { "label": "Trellis & Lattice", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/trellis" },
- { "label": "Cole & Son", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cole-and-son" }
+ {
+ "label": "Geometric Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Trellis & Lattice",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/trellis"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Cole & Son",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cole-and-son"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "michael-taylor",
+ "name": "Michael Taylor",
+ "headline": "The California Look pioneer",
+ "era": "Mid-Century",
+ "era_sort": 1970,
+ "city": "San Francisco, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "California Look",
+ "Wicker",
+ "Oversized Natural Forms"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1956–1986",
+ "bio": "Michael Taylor invented the California Look in the 1960s and ‘70s — overscale natural materials, wicker, coral, twig furniture, and sun-bleached neutrals. His rooms read as Big Sur made habitable, anchoring San Francisco and Pacific-coast houses through the 1980s.",
+ "signature": "Wicker, twig, coral, oversize seating, Heritage stone, sun-bleached cotton, bone-white walls.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Botanical",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "renzo-mongiardino",
+ "name": "Renzo Mongiardino",
+ "headline": "Italian theatrical maximalist",
+ "era": "Late 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1975,
+ "city": "Milan, Italy",
+ "styles": [
+ "Italian Maximalism",
+ "Pattern-on-Pattern",
+ "Theatrical"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1955–1998",
+ "bio": "Renzo Mongiardino trained as a set designer and applied the same painterly hand to apartments for the Agnelli, Brandolini, and Heinz families. His rooms layered hand-blocked patterns, faux marbling, and architectural illusion — every surface treated as a canvas, every room conceived as a stage set.",
+ "signature": "Hand-painted patterns, faux marble, layered textiles wall to floor, jewel-tone color stories.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "denning-and-fourcade",
+ "name": "Robert Denning & Vincent Fourcade",
+ "headline": "1970s decadent maximalism",
+ "era": "Late 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1975,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "1970s Maximalist",
+ "Tortoiseshell",
+ "Layered Velvet"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1960–1995",
+ "bio": "Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade decorated Oscar de la Renta, Henry Kissinger, and Saul Steinberg in the 1970s and 1980s with layered velvet, tortoiseshell, blackamoor sculpture, and damask wallcoverings to the ceiling — a deliberate counter-reformation against modernist restraint.",
+ "signature": "Damask to the ceiling, tortoiseshell, blackamoors, velvet sofas, gilded everything.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Gold Leaf",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/gold-leaf"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Animal Print",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/animal-print"
+ }
]
},
{
@@ -91,14 +486,27 @@
"era": "Late 20th Century",
"era_sort": 1980,
"city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["English Country", "Chintz", "Maximalist"],
+ "styles": [
+ "English Country",
+ "Chintz",
+ "Maximalist"
+ ],
"active_years": "1963–2018",
"bio": "Mario Buatta brought English country-house decoration to American clients — Barbara Walters, Mariah Carey, Henry Ford II, and the Blair House restoration. Cabbage roses, glazed walls in Yellow #11, dog portraits, swag valances, and a refusal to ever make a room look new.",
"signature": "Glazed yellow walls, cabbage-rose chintz, swag drapery, dog portraits.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Floral Chintz Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral" },
- { "label": "Toile de Jouy", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile" },
- { "label": "Schumacher", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher" }
+ {
+ "label": "Floral Chintz Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile de Jouy",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Schumacher",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher"
+ }
]
},
{
@@ -108,150 +516,267 @@
"era": "Late 20th Century",
"era_sort": 1985,
"city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["Traditional", "American Federal", "Library Style"],
+ "styles": [
+ "Traditional",
+ "American Federal",
+ "Library Style"
+ ],
"active_years": "1976–1998",
"bio": "Mark Hampton decorated the private quarters of the Bush, Clinton, and Carter White Houses, Blair House, and Gracie Mansion. His look — anglophile, library-heavy, scholarly — defined Reagan-era American taste. He drew every project in his own watercolors before construction.",
"signature": "Library bookcases painted putty, English antiques, herringbone floors, faded glaze.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Library Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/library" },
- { "label": "Damask Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask" },
- { "label": "Cowtan & Tout", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cowtan-and-tout" }
+ {
+ "label": "Library Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/library"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Cowtan & Tout",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cowtan-and-tout"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "bunny-williams",
- "name": "Bunny Williams",
- "headline": "Layered American country",
+ "slug": "john-saladino",
+ "name": "John Saladino",
+ "headline": "Romantic classicist with architect bones",
"era": "Late 20th Century",
- "era_sort": 1990,
- "city": "Falls Village, CT",
- "styles": ["Layered", "American Country", "Garden"],
- "active_years": "1989–present",
- "bio": "Bunny Williams left Parish-Hadley in 1988 to open her own firm. Her work is patient — rooms that look like they were assembled over generations rather than installed in a weekend. She publishes seven books and runs Treillage, the New York antiques shop she co-founded with John Rosselli.",
- "signature": "Botanical prints, garden rooms, generous slipcovers, mixed Continental antiques.",
+ "era_sort": 1985,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Romantic Classicism",
+ "Layered Neutrals",
+ "Sculptural Antiques"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1972–present",
+ "bio": "John Saladino trained as a painter and architect before opening his New York firm in 1972. His rooms layer pale neutrals against deliberate antique sculpture, with windows treated as light wells and walls left intentionally imperfect. His California-villa restorations and Manhattan apartments helped define late-twentieth-century romantic classicism.",
+ "signature": "Pale plaster walls, antique sculpture as anchor, dropped-shoulder upholstery, candlelight color.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Botanical Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical" },
- { "label": "Floral Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral" },
- { "label": "Brunschwig & Fils", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/brunschwig-and-fils" }
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "kelly-wearstler",
- "name": "Kelly Wearstler",
- "headline": "California glamour-modernism",
- "era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2005,
- "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
- "styles": ["Hollywood Regency", "Glamour", "Sculptural"],
- "active_years": "1995–present",
- "bio": "Kelly Wearstler invented the language of \"new Hollywood Regency\" through Viceroy Hotels and her own line of furniture, lighting, fabrics, and wallcoverings. Her work is sculptural, tactile, color-saturated, and often architectural in scale — Greek key floors, Carrara coffee tables, brass everywhere.",
- "signature": "Greek key motifs, malachite walls, brass and travertine, theatrical color.",
+ "slug": "david-easton",
+ "name": "David Easton",
+ "headline": "Anglo-American country house traditionalist",
+ "era": "Late 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1985,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "English Country",
+ "Classical Architecture",
+ "Layered Pattern"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1972–2022",
+ "bio": "David Easton built and decorated grand country houses across the American East Coast for forty years — Albemarle Estate, Belclaire — in an Anglo-American country-house idiom of layered chintz, eighteenth-century antiques, and architecturally correct millwork. The American answer to Colefax & Fowler.",
+ "signature": "Glazed walls, chintz curtains, eighteenth-century English furniture, painted floors with stenciled borders.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Geometric Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric" },
- { "label": "Glass Beaded Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/glass-beaded" },
- { "label": "Maya Romanoff", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/maya-romanoff" }
+ {
+ "label": "Floral Chintz",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Cowtan & Tout",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cowtan-and-tout"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "jonathan-adler",
- "name": "Jonathan Adler",
- "headline": "Happy chic, modern American pop",
- "era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2008,
+ "slug": "jed-johnson",
+ "name": "Jed Johnson",
+ "headline": "Andy Warhol's decorator",
+ "era": "Late 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1985,
"city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["Pop", "Modern", "Maximalist"],
- "active_years": "1993–present",
- "bio": "Jonathan Adler started with handmade pottery sold to Barneys and built it into a 30-store retail chain. His interiors — Parker Palm Springs, Eau Spa, Le Royal Monceau — are unapologetically optimistic: bold geometric rugs, brass figurines, lucite, and saturated color.",
- "signature": "Lucite, brass animals, mod geometric prints, candy-shop palettes.",
+ "styles": [
+ "Eclectic Period",
+ "Aesthetic Movement",
+ "Layered Antique"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1976–1996",
+ "bio": "Jed Johnson lived with Andy Warhol and decorated their East 66th Street townhouse — a layered fantasy of nineteenth-century Aesthetic Movement, Federal-era American, and serious antique textiles. His firm continued under his brother Jay after Jed's death in 1996, anchoring the high-end Manhattan period-revival market.",
+ "signature": "Aesthetic Movement wallpaper, layered period antiques, dark stained floors, jewel-toned upholstery.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Geometric Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric" },
- { "label": "Pop & Novelty", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/novelty" },
- { "label": "Cole & Son", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cole-and-son" }
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Mural",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/mural"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "nate-berkus",
- "name": "Nate Berkus",
- "headline": "Lived-in modernism, story-driven rooms",
- "era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2010,
- "city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["Layered Modern", "Collected", "Warm Minimalism"],
- "active_years": "2002–present",
- "bio": "Nate Berkus built his name on Oprah's couch and translated the on-camera warmth into a design vocabulary that prizes objects-with-meaning over symmetry. He runs his namesake firm with husband Jeremiah Brent and lines at Target and Living Spaces.",
- "signature": "Travel-collected objects, warm woods, stacked books, plaster walls.",
+ "slug": "andree-putman",
+ "name": "Andrée Putman",
+ "headline": "French minimalist of the black-and-white era",
+ "era": "Late 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1985,
+ "city": "Paris, France",
+ "styles": [
+ "French Minimalism",
+ "Black-and-White",
+ "Restrained Glamour"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1978–2013",
+ "bio": "Andrée Putman founded Ecart in 1978 and reissued forgotten French modernist furniture by Eileen Gray, Mariano Fortuny, and Pierre Chareau. She decorated Morgans Hotel in New York in 1984 — black-and-white checkerboard bathrooms, slate-gray walls — launching the boutique-hotel category.",
+ "signature": "Black-and-white checkerboard, slate-gray walls, reissued French modernist furniture, restraint.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth" },
- { "label": "Plaster & Limestone Texture", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture" },
- { "label": "Phillip Jeffries", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/phillip-jeffries" }
+ {
+ "label": "Geometric",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Solid",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "miles-redd",
- "name": "Miles Redd",
- "headline": "Color, drama, the American country house reimagined",
- "era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2012,
- "city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["Maximalist", "American Country", "Color-Saturated"],
- "active_years": "1998–present",
- "bio": "Miles Redd worked under John Rosselli before opening his own firm and now leads Redd Kaihoi with David Kaihoi. His work is fearlessly colored — lacquered scarlet libraries, leopard stair-runners, malachite breakfast rooms — and informed by the great mid-century decorators he openly cites.",
- "signature": "Lacquered scarlet, leopard prints, hand-painted murals, glossy ceilings.",
+ "slug": "bunny-williams",
+ "name": "Bunny Williams",
+ "headline": "Layered American country",
+ "era": "Late 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1990,
+ "city": "Falls Village, CT",
+ "styles": [
+ "Layered",
+ "American Country",
+ "Garden"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1989–present",
+ "bio": "Bunny Williams left Parish-Hadley in 1988 to open her own firm. Her work is patient — rooms that look like they were assembled over generations rather than installed in a weekend. She publishes seven books and runs Treillage, the New York antiques shop she co-founded with John Rosselli.",
+ "signature": "Botanical prints, garden rooms, generous slipcovers, mixed Continental antiques.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Hand-Painted Murals", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/mural" },
- { "label": "Animal Print Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/animal-print" },
- { "label": "Schumacher", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher" }
+ {
+ "label": "Botanical Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Brunschwig & Fils",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/brunschwig-and-fils"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "martyn-lawrence-bullard",
- "name": "Martyn Lawrence Bullard",
- "headline": "Hollywood-celebrity glamour",
+ "slug": "rose-tarlow",
+ "name": "Rose Tarlow",
+ "headline": "Old-world materiality, hand-aged everything",
"era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2010,
+ "era_sort": 1995,
"city": "Los Angeles, CA",
- "styles": ["Hollywood Regency", "Eclectic", "Bohemian Luxe"],
- "active_years": "1996–present",
- "bio": "Martyn Lawrence Bullard's client list reads like a TMZ index — Cher, Elton John, Kim Kardashian, the Osbournes. He moves easily between Moroccan riads, Beverly Hills compounds, and Aman resorts, with a signature use of pattern and global reference.",
- "signature": "Moroccan stars, Suzani prints, layered pattern, big-scale chandeliers.",
+ "styles": [
+ "European Classical",
+ "Aged Patina",
+ "Architectural"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1976–present",
+ "bio": "Rose Tarlow runs Melrose House on La Cienega, the showroom and furniture line that supplies the most architectural decorators in America. Her own home — published in every shelter magazine — is a study in plaster, oak beams, and the absence of anything that looks new.",
+ "signature": "Plaster walls, hand-aged oak, antique linen slipcovers, minimal color.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Moroccan & Suzani", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/moroccan" },
- { "label": "Hand-Beaded", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/glass-beaded" },
- { "label": "Schumacher", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher" }
+ {
+ "label": "Plaster Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Phillip Jeffries",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/phillip-jeffries"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "michael-s-smith",
- "name": "Michael S. Smith",
- "headline": "California classicism, Obama White House decorator",
- "era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2009,
- "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
- "styles": ["Classical", "California Mediterranean", "Restrained"],
- "active_years": "1990–present",
- "bio": "Michael S. Smith decorated the Obama White House family quarters and the Oval Office (2010 redesign), as well as homes for Steven Spielberg, Cindy Crawford, and Rupert Murdoch. His look fuses Mediterranean classicism with California ease — limestone, plaster, faded antiques, no flash.",
- "signature": "Plastered walls, limestone floors, blue-and-white porcelain, faded textiles.",
+ "slug": "charlotte-moss",
+ "name": "Charlotte Moss",
+ "headline": "Garden-room romanticism",
+ "era": "Late 20th Century",
+ "era_sort": 1995,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Romantic",
+ "Garden",
+ "Anglo-French"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1985–present",
+ "bio": "Charlotte Moss launched her Madison Avenue shop in 1985 and built her name on highly feminine, garden-influenced rooms with a strong English country undercurrent. She's published 11 books and decorated for clients across the U.S. and Europe.",
+ "signature": "Botanical prints, painted floors, scalloped fabrics, garden-room palettes.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Plaster & Limestone Texture", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture" },
- { "label": "Blue & White", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/chinoiserie" },
- { "label": "Cowtan & Tout", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cowtan-and-tout" }
+ {
+ "label": "Botanical Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Scalamandre",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/scalamandre"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "rose-tarlow",
- "name": "Rose Tarlow",
- "headline": "Old-world materiality, hand-aged everything",
+ "slug": "vicente-wolf",
+ "name": "Vicente Wolf",
+ "headline": "Asia-meets-modern white-on-white",
"era": "Contemporary",
"era_sort": 1995,
- "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
- "styles": ["European Classical", "Aged Patina", "Architectural"],
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Asian-Modern",
+ "White-on-White",
+ "Travel-Sourced"
+ ],
"active_years": "1976–present",
- "bio": "Rose Tarlow runs Melrose House on La Cienega, the showroom and furniture line that supplies the most architectural decorators in America. Her own home — published in every shelter magazine — is a study in plaster, oak beams, and the absence of anything that looks new.",
- "signature": "Plaster walls, hand-aged oak, antique linen slipcovers, minimal color.",
+ "bio": "Cuban-born Vicente Wolf has decorated New York apartments since 1976 in a signature mix of white walls, modernist seating, and a single anchoring Asian or African artifact sourced on his own travels. His VW Home shop and gallery are pilgrimage destinations for the Asia-modern crowd.",
+ "signature": "White walls, low modernist seating, antique Asian or African sculpture as focal point.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Plaster Texture", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture" },
- { "label": "Linen Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen" },
- { "label": "Phillip Jeffries", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/phillip-jeffries" }
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ }
]
},
{
@@ -261,31 +786,87 @@
"era": "Contemporary",
"era_sort": 2000,
"city": "Antwerp, Belgium",
- "styles": ["Wabi-Sabi", "Monastic", "Patina"],
+ "styles": [
+ "Wabi-Sabi",
+ "Monastic",
+ "Patina"
+ ],
"active_years": "1969–present",
"bio": "Axel Vervoordt blends Belgian classicism with Japanese wabi-sabi — battered linen, plaster walls, Khmer stone heads on Belgian oak tables. Clients include Robert De Niro, Calvin Klein, and Kanye West (who described Vervoordt's aesthetic as the foundation for his own \"Ye home\" minimalism).",
"signature": "Lime-washed walls, monastic furniture, Asian artifacts on European tables.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Plaster & Lime-Wash Texture", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture" },
- { "label": "Linen Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen" },
- { "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth" }
+ {
+ "label": "Plaster & Lime-Wash Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "jean-louis-deniot",
- "name": "Jean-Louis Deniot",
- "headline": "Parisian neo-classical-modernism",
+ "slug": "stephen-sills",
+ "name": "Stephen Sills",
+ "headline": "Classical-modernist of unsparing perfection",
"era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2014,
- "city": "Paris, France",
- "styles": ["Neoclassical", "Parisian Modern", "Architectural"],
- "active_years": "2000–present",
- "bio": "Jean-Louis Deniot designs from his 7th arrondissement studio and ships projects to New York, Mumbai, Aspen, Capri, and Bogotá. His work fuses 18th-century French classicism with hard-edged contemporary geometry — fluted limestone walls, brass inlay floors, plaster ceiling reliefs.",
- "signature": "Fluted limestone, brass inlay, plaster reliefs, all-tone palettes.",
+ "era_sort": 2000,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Classical Modernism",
+ "Plaster Walls",
+ "Sculptural Furniture"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1984–present",
+ "bio": "Stephen Sills (formerly Sills Huniford with James Huniford) is the New York decorator's decorator — Vera Wang and Tina Turner clients, a 1700s Bedford farmhouse for himself with cardboard-gray plaster walls, eighteenth-century French sculpture, and modernist art. Every surface considered.",
+ "signature": "Cardboard-gray plaster, eighteenth-century French sculpture, mid-century art, unsparing edit.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "mariette-himes-gomez",
+ "name": "Mariette Himes Gomez",
+ "headline": "Greenwich classicism with modernist edit",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2000,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "American Classicism",
+ "Restrained Modernism",
+ "Park Avenue"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1976–present",
+ "bio": "Mariette Himes Gomez built her practice on Park Avenue prewar apartments and East Coast country houses — classical American bones, restrained modernist edit, and a palette so quiet it reads as architecture. Forty years of clients in finance, media, and the Old New York that survives.",
+ "signature": "Bone-and-stone palettes, classical millwork, antique linen, very few but very good objects.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Solid & Tonal Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid" },
- { "label": "Metallic Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic" },
- { "label": "Pierre Frey", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/pierre-frey" }
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ }
]
},
{
@@ -295,133 +876,237 @@
"era": "Contemporary",
"era_sort": 2002,
"city": "London, UK",
- "styles": ["Modern Minimalism", "Taupe", "Asian-Influenced"],
+ "styles": [
+ "Modern Minimalism",
+ "Taupe",
+ "Asian-Influenced"
+ ],
"active_years": "1976–present",
"bio": "Kelly Hoppen built her name on a tightly disciplined neutral palette — taupe, cream, charcoal, the occasional gold leaf — and the rigorous use of texture in place of color. She has designed yachts for Sir Philip Green, hotels in Beijing, and her own line at QVC.",
"signature": "Taupe-on-taupe, gold leaf, Asian-influenced symmetry, layered texture.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Solid & Tonal Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid" },
- { "label": "Gold Leaf Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/gold-leaf" },
- { "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth" }
+ {
+ "label": "Solid & Tonal Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Gold Leaf Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/gold-leaf"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "studio-mcgee",
- "name": "Shea McGee (Studio McGee)",
- "headline": "Modern transitional, the Instagram era",
+ "slug": "thomas-obrien",
+ "name": "Thomas O'Brien",
+ "headline": "American modern, layered with antiques",
"era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2018,
- "city": "Lehi, UT",
- "styles": ["Modern Transitional", "Light & Airy", "California Casual"],
- "active_years": "2014–present",
- "bio": "Shea and Syd McGee launched Studio McGee from a basement and turned it into the most-followed interior design firm on Instagram. Their look — white shiplap, brass sconces, oak floors, neutral linen — defined the Netflix-era American family home and seeded the Threshold line at Target.",
- "signature": "White shiplap, brass sconces, oak floors, neutral linen, woven baskets.",
+ "era_sort": 2003,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "American Modern",
+ "Layered",
+ "Tailored"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1992–present",
+ "bio": "Thomas O'Brien founded Aero Studios in 1992 and built a parallel retail life through Aero on Bleecker. He pioneered the look of \"warm modernism\" — twentieth-century industrial pieces sitting comfortably alongside 18th-century French antiques — and his Target line shifted American taste in the early 2000s.",
+ "signature": "Industrial pendants, 1940s leather, bleached oak, warm whites.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth" },
- { "label": "Faux Shiplap & Texture", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture" },
- { "label": "Floral Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral" }
+ {
+ "label": "Solid Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Phillip Jeffries",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/phillip-jeffries"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "amber-lewis",
- "name": "Amber Lewis (Amber Interiors)",
- "headline": "California-warm boho-modernism",
+ "slug": "kelly-wearstler",
+ "name": "Kelly Wearstler",
+ "headline": "California glamour-modernism",
"era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2019,
- "city": "Calabasas, CA",
- "styles": ["California Casual", "Boho-Modern", "Earthy"],
- "active_years": "2011–present",
- "bio": "Amber Lewis runs Amber Interiors and Shoppe Amber Interiors, the Calabasas brick-and-mortar that anchors a generation of California-warm interiors — bouclé sofas, vintage Berber rugs, oak beams, plaster fireplaces, weathered woods.",
- "signature": "Vintage rugs, bouclé sofas, earthy plaster, mixed wood tones.",
+ "era_sort": 2005,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Hollywood Regency",
+ "Glamour",
+ "Sculptural"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1995–present",
+ "bio": "Kelly Wearstler invented the language of \"new Hollywood Regency\" through Viceroy Hotels and her own line of furniture, lighting, fabrics, and wallcoverings. Her work is sculptural, tactile, color-saturated, and often architectural in scale — Greek key floors, Carrara coffee tables, brass everywhere.",
+ "signature": "Greek key motifs, malachite walls, brass and travertine, theatrical color.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Plaster & Lime-Wash Texture", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture" },
- { "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth" },
- { "label": "Boho & Tribal", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/boho" }
+ {
+ "label": "Geometric Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Glass Beaded Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/glass-beaded"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Maya Romanoff",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/maya-romanoff"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "athena-calderone",
- "name": "Athena Calderone",
- "headline": "Tonal modernism, the artful interior",
+ "slug": "victoria-hagan",
+ "name": "Victoria Hagan",
+ "headline": "Quiet luxury, Connecticut classicism",
"era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2020,
- "city": "Brooklyn, NY",
- "styles": ["Tonal Modern", "Sculptural", "Editorial"],
- "active_years": "2015–present",
- "bio": "Athena Calderone built EyeSwoon, a content brand that became an interiors and product practice. She publishes Live Beautiful and Cook Beautiful, and her own Brooklyn brownstone (renovated with husband DJ Aoki) is the model for tonal modernism — limestone, oak, plaster, no color, all sculpture.",
- "signature": "Tonal palettes, sculptural seating, plaster fireplaces, oak millwork.",
+ "era_sort": 2005,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Quiet Luxury",
+ "American Classicism",
+ "Cream and Bone"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1985–present",
+ "bio": "Victoria Hagan built her thirty-year practice on cream-and-bone palettes, classical American architecture, and quiet luxury — Greenwich estates, Manhattan apartments, a Nantucket compound. Her own home goods line and a textile collection with Holland & Sherry expanded the brand beyond decoration.",
+ "signature": "Cream-and-bone palettes, classical American millwork, slipcovers, sisal floors.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Plaster Texture", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture" },
- { "label": "Solid Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid" },
- { "label": "Linen Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen" }
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "nicole-hollis",
- "name": "Nicole Hollis",
- "headline": "Dark-luxe California minimalism",
+ "slug": "robert-couturier",
+ "name": "Robert Couturier",
+ "headline": "French-American theatrical traditionalism",
"era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2016,
- "city": "San Francisco, CA",
- "styles": ["Dark Modern", "Sculptural Minimalism", "Sculptural"],
- "active_years": "2003–present",
- "bio": "Nicole Hollis runs a 30-person San Francisco firm specializing in serene, monochromatic interiors with a strong sculptural edge. Recent projects include the Four Seasons Resort Lanai and a Pacific Heights mansion published in AD's October cover story.",
- "signature": "Black-and-bronze palettes, sculptural seating, single statement pendant.",
- "preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Solid Dark Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid" },
- { "label": "Metallic Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic" },
- { "label": "Maya Romanoff", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/maya-romanoff" }
- ]
- },
- {
- "slug": "charlotte-moss",
- "name": "Charlotte Moss",
- "headline": "Garden-room romanticism",
- "era": "Late 20th Century",
- "era_sort": 1995,
+ "era_sort": 2005,
"city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["Romantic", "Garden", "Anglo-French"],
- "active_years": "1985–present",
- "bio": "Charlotte Moss launched her Madison Avenue shop in 1985 and built her name on highly feminine, garden-influenced rooms with a strong English country undercurrent. She's published 11 books and decorated for clients across the U.S. and Europe.",
- "signature": "Botanical prints, painted floors, scalloped fabrics, garden-room palettes.",
+ "styles": [
+ "French Traditional",
+ "Theatrical",
+ "Layered Antique"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1987–present",
+ "bio": "Born in Paris, trained at the École Camondo, Robert Couturier landed in New York in 1987 and decorated Sir James Goldsmith's Mexico estate Cuixmala, then thirty years of theatrical apartments for media and finance clients. His own Litchfield County, Connecticut, country house is a fully realized eighteenth-century French dream.",
+ "signature": "Eighteenth-century French furniture, painted boiserie, theatrical color, candlelight palette.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Botanical Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical" },
- { "label": "Floral Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral" },
- { "label": "Scalamandre", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/scalamandre" }
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "thomas-obrien",
- "name": "Thomas O'Brien",
- "headline": "American modern, layered with antiques",
+ "slug": "jacques-grange",
+ "name": "Jacques Grange",
+ "headline": "French haute decoration master",
"era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2003,
- "city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["American Modern", "Layered", "Tailored"],
- "active_years": "1992–present",
- "bio": "Thomas O'Brien founded Aero Studios in 1992 and built a parallel retail life through Aero on Bleecker. He pioneered the look of \"warm modernism\" — twentieth-century industrial pieces sitting comfortably alongside 18th-century French antiques — and his Target line shifted American taste in the early 2000s.",
- "signature": "Industrial pendants, 1940s leather, bleached oak, warm whites.",
+ "era_sort": 2005,
+ "city": "Paris, France",
+ "styles": [
+ "French Haute Decoration",
+ "Eclectic Period",
+ "Layered"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1970–present",
+ "bio": "Jacques Grange decorates apartments for Yves Saint Laurent (the original 5 Avenue Marceau), Caroline of Monaco, and François Pinault from his Paris atelier — mixing period antiques, twentieth-century art, and serious bronze furniture in rooms that look like they have grown over centuries.",
+ "signature": "Layered period antiques, twentieth-century French art, bronze furniture, deep neutral plaster.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Solid Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid" },
- { "label": "Stripe Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe" },
- { "label": "Phillip Jeffries", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/phillip-jeffries" }
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Pierre Frey",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/pierre-frey"
+ }
]
},
{
- "slug": "steven-gambrel",
- "name": "Steven Gambrel",
- "headline": "Color-block American architectural",
+ "slug": "john-pawson",
+ "name": "John Pawson",
+ "headline": "British minimalism master",
"era": "Contemporary",
- "era_sort": 2011,
+ "era_sort": 2005,
+ "city": "London, UK",
+ "styles": [
+ "Minimalism",
+ "Monastic",
+ "Travertine and Oak"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1981–present",
+ "bio": "John Pawson trained briefly in Japan with Shiro Kuramata, then opened a London practice in 1981 dedicated to architectural minimalism — Calvin Klein's Madison Avenue flagship, the Novy Dvur Cistercian monastery, his own house in Notting Hill. Every joint considered, nothing decorative survives.",
+ "signature": "Travertine, oak, white plaster, hidden joinery, a single perfect object per room.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Solid",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "jonathan-adler",
+ "name": "Jonathan Adler",
+ "headline": "Happy chic, modern American pop",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2008,
"city": "New York, NY",
- "styles": ["Architectural", "Saturated Color", "Detail-Driven"],
- "active_years": "1995–present",
- "bio": "Steven Gambrel runs SR Gambrel from his Bond Street office and is known for the level of architectural millwork in every project — paneled walls, custom lighting, color-block libraries. His Sag Harbor and West Village houses have appeared in every major shelter title.",
- "signature": "Saturated wall color, custom millwork, antique brass, plaster ceilings.",
+ "styles": [
+ "Pop",
+ "Modern",
+ "Maximalist"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1993–present",
+ "bio": "Jonathan Adler started with handmade pottery sold to Barneys and built it into a 30-store retail chain. His interiors — Parker Palm Springs, Eau Spa, Le Royal Monceau — are unapologetically optimistic: bold geometric rugs, brass figurines, lucite, and saturated color.",
+ "signature": "Lucite, brass animals, mod geometric prints, candy-shop palettes.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Solid Saturated Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid" },
- { "label": "Damask Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask" },
- { "label": "Schumacher", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher" }
+ {
+ "label": "Geometric Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Pop & Novelty",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/novelty"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Cole & Son",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cole-and-son"
+ }
]
},
{
@@ -431,14 +1116,1527 @@
"era": "Contemporary",
"era_sort": 2008,
"city": "Atlanta, GA",
- "styles": ["French Country", "Soft Modern", "Light Palette"],
+ "styles": [
+ "French Country",
+ "Soft Modern",
+ "Light Palette"
+ ],
"active_years": "1994–present",
"bio": "Suzanne Kasler runs Suzanne Kasler Interiors and lines with Hickory Chair, Visual Comfort, and Ballard Designs. Her interiors mix French antiques with American softness — dove-grey walls, garden roses, antique mirrors — and have built a national retail following.",
"signature": "Dove-grey walls, French antiques, garden florals, antique mirrors.",
"preferred_dw": [
- { "label": "Floral Wallcoverings", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral" },
- { "label": "Toile de Jouy", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile" },
- { "label": "Brunschwig & Fils", "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/brunschwig-and-fils" }
+ {
+ "label": "Floral Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile de Jouy",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Brunschwig & Fils",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/brunschwig-and-fils"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "michael-s-smith",
+ "name": "Michael S. Smith",
+ "headline": "California classicism, Obama White House decorator",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2009,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Classical",
+ "California Mediterranean",
+ "Restrained"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1990–present",
+ "bio": "Michael S. Smith decorated the Obama White House family quarters and the Oval Office (2010 redesign), as well as homes for Steven Spielberg, Cindy Crawford, and Rupert Murdoch. His look fuses Mediterranean classicism with California ease — limestone, plaster, faded antiques, no flash.",
+ "signature": "Plastered walls, limestone floors, blue-and-white porcelain, faded textiles.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Plaster & Limestone Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Blue & White",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/chinoiserie"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Cowtan & Tout",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cowtan-and-tout"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "nate-berkus",
+ "name": "Nate Berkus",
+ "headline": "Lived-in modernism, story-driven rooms",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2010,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Layered Modern",
+ "Collected",
+ "Warm Minimalism"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2002–present",
+ "bio": "Nate Berkus built his name on Oprah's couch and translated the on-camera warmth into a design vocabulary that prizes objects-with-meaning over symmetry. He runs his namesake firm with husband Jeremiah Brent and lines at Target and Living Spaces.",
+ "signature": "Travel-collected objects, warm woods, stacked books, plaster walls.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Plaster & Limestone Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Phillip Jeffries",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/phillip-jeffries"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "martyn-lawrence-bullard",
+ "name": "Martyn Lawrence Bullard",
+ "headline": "Hollywood-celebrity glamour",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2010,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Hollywood Regency",
+ "Eclectic",
+ "Bohemian Luxe"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1996–present",
+ "bio": "Martyn Lawrence Bullard's client list reads like a TMZ index — Cher, Elton John, Kim Kardashian, the Osbournes. He moves easily between Moroccan riads, Beverly Hills compounds, and Aman resorts, with a signature use of pattern and global reference.",
+ "signature": "Moroccan stars, Suzani prints, layered pattern, big-scale chandeliers.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Moroccan & Suzani",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/moroccan"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Hand-Beaded",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/glass-beaded"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Schumacher",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "peter-marino",
+ "name": "Peter Marino",
+ "headline": "Architect of luxury-brand boutiques",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2010,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Luxury Retail",
+ "Sculptural Modern",
+ "Bronze and Limestone"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1978–present",
+ "bio": "Peter Marino designs flagship stores for Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Fendi — and houses for the families who own them. His aesthetic combines architectural modernism, bronze and limestone, museum-grade contemporary art, and a black-leather public persona that doubles as branding.",
+ "signature": "Bronze, limestone, museum-grade contemporary art commissioned for the room, architectural rigor.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Metallic",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Solid",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "thomas-pheasant",
+ "name": "Thomas Pheasant",
+ "headline": "Washington classical",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2010,
+ "city": "Washington, DC",
+ "styles": [
+ "Neoclassical",
+ "Restrained Palette",
+ "Architectural Symmetry"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1980–present",
+ "bio": "Thomas Pheasant runs his Washington practice on neoclassical bones — symmetry, architectural moldings, restrained palette, and his own line of refined neoclassical furniture for Baker. The Pentagon, the Blair House, and a generation of Georgetown houses bear his hand.",
+ "signature": "Restrained cream/sand palette, classical moldings, symmetry, Baker-licensed neoclassical furniture.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "howard-slatkin",
+ "name": "Howard Slatkin",
+ "headline": "High-style traditional, every surface considered",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2010,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "High Traditional",
+ "Damask-on-Damask",
+ "Period Maximalism"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1985–present",
+ "bio": "Howard Slatkin's own Fifth Avenue apartment — featured in his book \"Fifth Avenue Style\" — is the canonical demonstration of late-twentieth-century high-style traditional: hand-painted boiserie, damask-on-damask textiles, museum-quality eighteenth-century furniture, and a level of finish more bespoke than most museum installations.",
+ "signature": "Hand-painted boiserie, damask-on-damask, museum-grade eighteenth-century antiques.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Brunschwig & Fils",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/brunschwig-and-fils"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Gold Leaf",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/gold-leaf"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "bill-sofield",
+ "name": "Bill Sofield",
+ "headline": "Architect-designer of Tom Ford's world",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2010,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Architectural Decoration",
+ "Sculptural Furniture",
+ "Tom-Ford-Adjacent"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1990–present",
+ "bio": "Bill Sofield designs the Tom Ford retail empire, residences for the Gucci family, and Manhattan apartments — bridging architecture and decoration with sculptural seating, deep neutral palettes, and a saturated film-noir lighting strategy. The architect in the decorator's seat.",
+ "signature": "Sculptural custom seating, deep saturated neutrals, theatrical lighting, bronze.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Metallic",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Lacquer",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/lacquer"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "veere-grenney",
+ "name": "Veere Grenney",
+ "headline": "English understated luxury",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2010,
+ "city": "London, UK",
+ "styles": [
+ "English Restraint",
+ "Pale Plaster",
+ "Architectural Symmetry"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1989–present",
+ "bio": "Veere Grenney trained with Mary Fox Linton and David Hicks before opening his own London firm in 1989. His aesthetic is the quietest version of English country — pale plaster, restrained pattern, architectural symmetry, the perfect single antique on the side table.",
+ "signature": "Pale plaster walls, restrained pattern, English country furniture, architectural symmetry.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "suzanne-tucker",
+ "name": "Suzanne Tucker",
+ "headline": "San Francisco classical",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2010,
+ "city": "San Francisco, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Classical",
+ "European Antiques",
+ "Layered Pattern"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1986–present",
+ "bio": "Suzanne Tucker (formerly Tucker & Marks with Timothy Marks) practices the San Francisco version of New York classicism — Pacific Heights mansions, Napa Valley estates, and a textile line for Robert Allen built on her own watercolor pattern studies.",
+ "signature": "European antique furniture, saturated jewel-tone walls, watercolor-derived pattern, layered fringe.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "ellie-cullman",
+ "name": "Ellie Cullman",
+ "headline": "NY classical maximalism",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2010,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Classical Maximalism",
+ "Asian-Inflected",
+ "Layered Antique"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1984–present",
+ "bio": "Ellie Cullman (of Cullman & Kravis) runs a top-of-market New York practice on classical maximalist bones — Park Avenue apartments and Aspen lodges layered with serious antique furniture, Asian decorative arts, and museum-quality contemporary collections.",
+ "signature": "Asian-inflected classical maximalism, serious antique furniture, museum-quality art layering.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Chinoiserie",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/chinoiserie"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Schumacher",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "steven-gambrel",
+ "name": "Steven Gambrel",
+ "headline": "Color-block American architectural",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2011,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Architectural",
+ "Saturated Color",
+ "Detail-Driven"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1995–present",
+ "bio": "Steven Gambrel runs SR Gambrel from his Bond Street office and is known for the level of architectural millwork in every project — paneled walls, custom lighting, color-block libraries. His Sag Harbor and West Village houses have appeared in every major shelter title.",
+ "signature": "Saturated wall color, custom millwork, antique brass, plaster ceilings.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Solid Saturated Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Schumacher",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "miles-redd",
+ "name": "Miles Redd",
+ "headline": "Color, drama, the American country house reimagined",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2012,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Maximalist",
+ "American Country",
+ "Color-Saturated"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1998–present",
+ "bio": "Miles Redd worked under John Rosselli before opening his own firm and now leads Redd Kaihoi with David Kaihoi. His work is fearlessly colored — lacquered scarlet libraries, leopard stair-runners, malachite breakfast rooms — and informed by the great mid-century decorators he openly cites.",
+ "signature": "Lacquered scarlet, leopard prints, hand-painted murals, glossy ceilings.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Hand-Painted Murals",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/mural"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Animal Print Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/animal-print"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Schumacher",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "jean-louis-deniot",
+ "name": "Jean-Louis Deniot",
+ "headline": "Parisian neo-classical-modernism",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2014,
+ "city": "Paris, France",
+ "styles": [
+ "Neoclassical",
+ "Parisian Modern",
+ "Architectural"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2000–present",
+ "bio": "Jean-Louis Deniot designs from his 7th arrondissement studio and ships projects to New York, Mumbai, Aspen, Capri, and Bogotá. His work fuses 18th-century French classicism with hard-edged contemporary geometry — fluted limestone walls, brass inlay floors, plaster ceiling reliefs.",
+ "signature": "Fluted limestone, brass inlay, plaster reliefs, all-tone palettes.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Solid & Tonal Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Metallic Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Pierre Frey",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/pierre-frey"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "kit-kemp",
+ "name": "Kit Kemp",
+ "headline": "Firmdale Hotels color storyteller",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "London, UK",
+ "styles": [
+ "Pattern-on-Pattern",
+ "Color-Soaked",
+ "British Hospitality"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1985–present",
+ "bio": "Kit Kemp runs design for Firmdale Hotels — Crosby Street and Ham Yard in New York and London — in a signature mix of saturated color, layered pattern, English headboard fabric mixed with African textile, and a sense of room-as-character. Her Christopher Farr Cloth collection extended the language into retail.",
+ "signature": "Layered patterns, saturated color, custom headboard fabric, mixed cultural textiles.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Cowtan & Tout",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cowtan-and-tout"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Schumacher",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "vincent-van-duysen",
+ "name": "Vincent Van Duysen",
+ "headline": "Belgian minimalism with weight",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "Antwerp, Belgium",
+ "styles": [
+ "Belgian Minimalism",
+ "Tactile Stone",
+ "Heavy Plaster"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1989–present",
+ "bio": "Vincent Van Duysen practices a Belgian minimalism that is more material than ascetic — heavy plaster, thick stone, deep linen upholstery, and the weight of every surface considered. His Molteni&C creative direction extended the language into furniture for a global audience.",
+ "signature": "Heavy plaster, thick stone, deep linen upholstery, weighted materiality, monastic palette.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Solid",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "india-mahdavi",
+ "name": "India Mahdavi",
+ "headline": "Color queen, Sketch pink",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "Paris, France",
+ "styles": [
+ "Saturated Color",
+ "Hospitality",
+ "Pattern-Forward"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1999–present",
+ "bio": "Iran-born, Paris-based India Mahdavi designed the pink dining room at Sketch London that became the most-Instagrammed restaurant of the 2010s. Her aesthetic centers on bold saturated color — millennial pink, deep teal, mustard — paired with curved seating and pattern as architecture.",
+ "signature": "Millennial pink, curved upholstered seating, pattern-as-architecture, saturated palette.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Geometric",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Moroccan",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/moroccan"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "kelly-behun",
+ "name": "Kelly Behun",
+ "headline": "Mod 70s revival, art-collector eye",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "1970s Revival",
+ "Art-Forward",
+ "Curated Color"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2002–present",
+ "bio": "Kelly Behun runs a New York practice notable for collaborations with major contemporary artists — Sterling Ruby, Donald Judd, Roy Lichtenstein — and 1970s-revival palettes of saturated rust, ochre, and forest green executed in custom furniture and commissioned art for a Hamptons-to-Aspen clientele.",
+ "signature": "1970s revival palette, commissioned contemporary art, custom curved seating, rust and ochre.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Geometric",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Metallic",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "sheila-bridges",
+ "name": "Sheila Bridges",
+ "headline": "Creator of Harlem Toile de Jouy",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "American Classical",
+ "Black History Pattern",
+ "Harlem Toile"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1994–present",
+ "bio": "Sheila Bridges built her Harlem practice on layered American classicism and is best known for designing Harlem Toile de Jouy — the wallpaper that reimagines the eighteenth-century French pastoral scene as a meditation on Black American history. Bill Clinton, the Obama Foundation, the Harlem brownstones.",
+ "signature": "Layered American classicism, Harlem Toile wallpaper, deep saturated wall color, period furniture.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "jay-jeffers",
+ "name": "Jay Jeffers",
+ "headline": "San Francisco eclectic",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "San Francisco, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Eclectic",
+ "Mid-Century-Modern Mix",
+ "Color-Forward"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1999–present",
+ "bio": "Jay Jeffers built his San Francisco practice on mixing mid-century modern with traditional, layered with bold pattern and saturated color — Napa Valley estates, Pacific Heights townhouses, and the Heritage House Resort in Mendocino.",
+ "signature": "Mid-century-modern mixed with traditional, deep saturated color, custom seating, Napa eclectic.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Geometric",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "roman-and-williams",
+ "name": "Robin Standefer & Stephen Alesch (Roman and Williams)",
+ "headline": "Brooklyn-romantic hospitality studio",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Industrial Romantic",
+ "Hospitality",
+ "Period-Industrial Mix"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2002–present",
+ "bio": "Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch — film production designers turned architects — founded Roman and Williams and designed Ace Hotel New York, the High Line Hotel, La Mercerie, and dozens of restaurants that defined the 2010s industrial-romantic hospitality look. Their Guild storefront is the New York gift shop the city deserved.",
+ "signature": "Aged brass, antique Edison bulbs, salvaged factory windows, French bistro chairs, dark woods.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Metallic",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "commune-design",
+ "name": "Commune Design (Pamela Shamshiri & co.)",
+ "headline": "Los Angeles new-old craft revival",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "California Craftsman Revival",
+ "Tile and Wood",
+ "Tactile"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2004–present",
+ "bio": "Commune Design — founded by Pamela Shamshiri, Roman Alonso, Steven Johanknecht, and Ramin Shamshiri in 2004 — defined a Los Angeles new-old craft aesthetic of handmade tile, oiled wood, layered textile, and California-modern bones. Ace Hotel Palm Springs, the Durham Hotel, plus a roster of West Coast residences.",
+ "signature": "Handmade tile, oiled wood, layered Mexican and California folk textiles, craftsman bones.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Moroccan",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/moroccan"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Boho",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/boho"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "mark-cunningham",
+ "name": "Mark Cunningham",
+ "headline": "Quiet East-Coast modernism",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Quiet Modernism",
+ "East-Coast Restraint",
+ "Edited Antique"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1989–present",
+ "bio": "Mark Cunningham practices East-Coast restraint at the very high end — Greenwich, the Upper East Side, the Hamptons — in cream-and-stone palettes, edited eighteenth-century antiques, and modernist seating commissioned at the workroom level. The decorator's decorator for a discreet clientele.",
+ "signature": "Cream-and-stone palette, edited eighteenth-century antiques, commissioned modernist seating.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "markham-roberts",
+ "name": "Markham Roberts",
+ "headline": "NY traditional with personality",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "New York Traditional",
+ "Pattern-Layered",
+ "Color-Confident"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1997–present",
+ "bio": "Markham Roberts trained under Mark Hampton and runs his own New York practice with a generation of clients across the Upper East Side, Connecticut, and the Hamptons. His rooms layer good antique furniture, saturated color, and pattern with the confidence of someone who learned at the top of the field.",
+ "signature": "Saturated walls, antique English furniture, layered pattern, dark stained floors.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "tom-scheerer",
+ "name": "Tom Scheerer",
+ "headline": "Connecticut-Bahamas relaxed traditional",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Relaxed Traditional",
+ "Indoor-Outdoor",
+ "Bahamian Color"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1995–present",
+ "bio": "Tom Scheerer divides his practice between Connecticut, New York, and the Bahamas — and the Bahamian palette of pale aqua, white, woven natural fibers, and indoor-outdoor flow has bled into his entire body of work. His book \"More Decorating\" is the canonical demonstration.",
+ "signature": "Pale aqua walls, white slipcovers, sisal and abaca floors, indoor-outdoor furniture, painted rattan.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Botanical",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "frank-de-biasi",
+ "name": "Frank de Biasi",
+ "headline": "World-traveler maximalism",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Globally Sourced Maximalism",
+ "Period Mix",
+ "Color-Layered"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1991–present",
+ "bio": "Frank de Biasi practices a globally sourced maximalism — Moroccan tile, Anglo-Indian furniture, Italian commissioned art, and saturated layered color — across houses in New York, Tangier, and Italy. His own Tangier home is the canonical pilgrimage.",
+ "signature": "Globally sourced furniture, Moroccan tile, Anglo-Indian pieces, saturated layered color.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Moroccan",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/moroccan"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Chinoiserie",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/chinoiserie"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "bryan-batt",
+ "name": "Bryan Batt",
+ "headline": "New Orleans period revival",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "New Orleans, LA",
+ "styles": [
+ "New Orleans Period",
+ "Layered Antique",
+ "Theatrical"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2012–present",
+ "bio": "Actor-turned-decorator Bryan Batt (Sal on Mad Men) runs his Hazelnut shop and decorating practice in New Orleans on a theatrical layered-antique foundation — Mardi Gras color, eighteenth-century French and American furniture, and the kind of theatrical scale his prior career trained him for.",
+ "signature": "Mardi Gras color, antique French and American period furniture, theatrical scale, period drapery.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Gold Leaf",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/gold-leaf"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "gert-voorjans",
+ "name": "Gert Voorjans",
+ "headline": "Belgian maximalist with antique eye",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2015,
+ "city": "Antwerp, Belgium",
+ "styles": [
+ "Belgian Maximalism",
+ "Antique Period Mix",
+ "Saturated Color"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1995–present",
+ "bio": "Gert Voorjans runs his Antwerp practice on a Belgian maximalist foundation — saturated walls, layered period antiques across centuries, oriental and Anglo-Indian pieces, and the kind of confident pattern-mixing that the Antwerp Six fashion crowd considers a hometown specialty.",
+ "signature": "Saturated walls, layered period antiques, oriental and Anglo-Indian furniture, confident pattern.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Chinoiserie",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/chinoiserie"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "nicole-hollis",
+ "name": "Nicole Hollis",
+ "headline": "Dark-luxe California minimalism",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2016,
+ "city": "San Francisco, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Dark Modern",
+ "Sculptural Minimalism",
+ "Sculptural"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2003–present",
+ "bio": "Nicole Hollis runs a 30-person San Francisco firm specializing in serene, monochromatic interiors with a strong sculptural edge. Recent projects include the Four Seasons Resort Lanai and a Pacific Heights mansion published in AD's October cover story.",
+ "signature": "Black-and-bronze palettes, sculptural seating, single statement pendant.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Solid Dark Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Metallic Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Maya Romanoff",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/maya-romanoff"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "studio-mcgee",
+ "name": "Shea McGee (Studio McGee)",
+ "headline": "Modern transitional, the Instagram era",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2018,
+ "city": "Lehi, UT",
+ "styles": [
+ "Modern Transitional",
+ "Light & Airy",
+ "California Casual"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2014–present",
+ "bio": "Shea and Syd McGee launched Studio McGee from a basement and turned it into the most-followed interior design firm on Instagram. Their look — white shiplap, brass sconces, oak floors, neutral linen — defined the Netflix-era American family home and seeded the Threshold line at Target.",
+ "signature": "White shiplap, brass sconces, oak floors, neutral linen, woven baskets.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Faux Shiplap & Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "amber-lewis",
+ "name": "Amber Lewis (Amber Interiors)",
+ "headline": "California-warm boho-modernism",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2019,
+ "city": "Calabasas, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "California Casual",
+ "Boho-Modern",
+ "Earthy"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2011–present",
+ "bio": "Amber Lewis runs Amber Interiors and Shoppe Amber Interiors, the Calabasas brick-and-mortar that anchors a generation of California-warm interiors — bouclé sofas, vintage Berber rugs, oak beams, plaster fireplaces, weathered woods.",
+ "signature": "Vintage rugs, bouclé sofas, earthy plaster, mixed wood tones.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Plaster & Lime-Wash Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Boho & Tribal",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/boho"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "athena-calderone",
+ "name": "Athena Calderone",
+ "headline": "Tonal modernism, the artful interior",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Brooklyn, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Tonal Modern",
+ "Sculptural",
+ "Editorial"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2015–present",
+ "bio": "Athena Calderone built EyeSwoon, a content brand that became an interiors and product practice. She publishes Live Beautiful and Cook Beautiful, and her own Brooklyn brownstone (renovated with husband DJ Aoki) is the model for tonal modernism — limestone, oak, plaster, no color, all sculpture.",
+ "signature": "Tonal palettes, sculptural seating, plaster fireplaces, oak millwork.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Plaster Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Solid Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/solid"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen Wallcoverings",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "beata-heuman",
+ "name": "Beata Heuman",
+ "headline": "Swedish-British playful maximalism",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "London, UK",
+ "styles": [
+ "Playful Maximalism",
+ "Pattern Mix",
+ "Swedish-British"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2013–present",
+ "bio": "Swedish-born Beata Heuman opened her London studio in 2013 after a decade with Nicky Haslam, and her work — fish-shaped wall sconces, hand-painted dado rails, a witty mix of Swedish folk and English country — has made her the breakout decorator of the late 2010s.",
+ "signature": "Hand-painted dado rails, witty wall sconces, Swedish-folk-meets-English-country pattern mixing.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Botanical",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "rita-konig",
+ "name": "Rita Konig",
+ "headline": "English country, lived-in version",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "County Durham, UK",
+ "styles": [
+ "English Country",
+ "Lived-In",
+ "Editor's Eye"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2005–present",
+ "bio": "Rita Konig (daughter of Nina Campbell) writes for House & Garden, decorates from her North England farmhouse The North Farm, and runs an interiors school. Her aesthetic is English country with the period-restraint dialed up and the new-construction sheen dialed all the way down.",
+ "signature": "Faded chintz, painted floors, mismatched antiques, dog beds, country-house wear.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Cowtan & Tout",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/cowtan-and-tout"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "studio-ashby",
+ "name": "Sophie Ashby (Studio Ashby)",
+ "headline": "London modern with a romantic edge",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "London, UK",
+ "styles": [
+ "Modern Romantic",
+ "Color-Saturated",
+ "Sustainable Textiles"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2014–present",
+ "bio": "South-African-born Sophie Ashby founded Studio Ashby in 2014 — color-rich apartments and hotels across London with deep velvets, sustainable textiles, and an emphasis on commissioning emerging African artists. Married to fashion designer Charlie Casely-Hayford.",
+ "signature": "Deep saturated jewel tones, velvet seating, commissioned art, modernist room organization.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Botanical",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "pierre-yovanovitch",
+ "name": "Pierre Yovanovitch",
+ "headline": "French haute couture interiors",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Paris, France",
+ "styles": [
+ "Sculptural Modern",
+ "Custom Furniture",
+ "Haute Couture"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2001–present",
+ "bio": "Pierre Yovanovitch transitioned from twelve years at Pierre Cardin into interior design in 2001, and his rooms are dressed at couture level — every piece custom, sculptural seating, monumental fireplaces, the Yovanovitch \"Mr Bear\" chair as signature. Apartments in Paris, New York, the South of France.",
+ "signature": "Custom sculptural seating, monumental fireplaces, Mr Bear chair, couture-grade upholstery.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Linen",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/linen"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Lacquer",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/lacquer"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "corey-damen-jenkins",
+ "name": "Corey Damen Jenkins",
+ "headline": "Detroit-NY exuberant traditionalist",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Exuberant Traditional",
+ "Pattern Mix",
+ "Saturated Color"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2009–present",
+ "bio": "Corey Damen Jenkins built his Detroit practice door-to-door during the 2008 recession and now decorates Manhattan and Connecticut from his New York office. His aesthetic is exuberantly traditional — every wall saturated, every pattern layered, every room a story.",
+ "signature": "Saturated walls, layered pattern, traditional furniture lines, joyful color confidence.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Schumacher",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/schumacher"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "justina-blakeney",
+ "name": "Justina Blakeney",
+ "headline": "Jungalow founder, modern bohemian",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Modern Bohemian",
+ "Plant-Forward",
+ "Pattern-Layered"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2009–present",
+ "bio": "Justina Blakeney coined \"Jungalow\" as a bohemian aesthetic of plant-filled, pattern-layered rooms drawing on Moroccan, Mexican, and West African references. Her books, product lines with Target, and design-blogger community have made the Jungalow look a defining mass-market bohemian since the early 2010s.",
+ "signature": "Plant-filled rooms, layered global pattern, macramé, terracotta and emerald palette.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Boho",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/boho"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Moroccan",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/moroccan"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Botanical",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "sasha-bikoff",
+ "name": "Sasha Bikoff",
+ "headline": "Maximalist Gen-Z pastel revivalist",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Rococo-Pop",
+ "Maximalist",
+ "Pastel"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2012–present",
+ "bio": "Sasha Bikoff designed the most-Instagrammed staircase of 2018 at the Kips Bay Showhouse — a pink-and-mint Rococo-pop fantasia that captured a maximalist mood the early-2020s could not get enough of. Her own line, \"Rococo Disco,\" extends the language into wallpaper and fabric.",
+ "signature": "Rococo-pop pastel palette, layered pattern, eighteenth-century silhouettes in millennial color.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "beth-diana-smith",
+ "name": "Beth Diana Smith",
+ "headline": "New Jersey modern Black design",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Irvington, NJ",
+ "styles": [
+ "Modern Eclectic",
+ "Black Heritage",
+ "Bold Color"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2013–present",
+ "bio": "Beth Diana Smith's Irvington practice has become a leading voice in modern Black-designer aesthetics — bold saturated color, mixed-period seating, commissioned Black-artist work as anchor pieces, and a deliberate counter to the bone-and-cream \"tasteful\" minimalism the industry overproduced through the 2010s.",
+ "signature": "Saturated walls, commissioned Black art, mixed-period furniture, bold pattern confidence.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Geometric",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "studio-shamshiri",
+ "name": "Pamela Shamshiri & Ramin Shamshiri (Studio Shamshiri)",
+ "headline": "LA romantic classical",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Romantic Classical",
+ "Layered Antique",
+ "Mediterranean"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2016–present",
+ "bio": "Pamela and Ramin Shamshiri left Commune in 2016 to start Studio Shamshiri — a sister practice with the same craft-driven bones but applied to private West Coast houses with a richer Mediterranean and Persian inheritance. Layered antique rugs, plaster walls, and serious commissioned millwork.",
+ "signature": "Plaster walls, antique Persian and Anatolian rugs, commissioned millwork, Mediterranean color.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Moroccan",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/moroccan"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Boho",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/boho"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "joe-lucas",
+ "name": "Joe Lucas",
+ "headline": "Hollywood Regency for the contemporary client",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Hollywood Regency",
+ "Glamour-Modern",
+ "Theatrical"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2007–present",
+ "bio": "Joe Lucas runs his Los Angeles practice as Hollywood Regency updated — Greek-key trim, lacquered walls, deep saturated color, mirrored furniture. The contemporary heir to the Tony-Duquette-into-Kelly-Wearstler West Coast theatrical tradition.",
+ "signature": "Lacquered walls, Greek-key trim, mirrored furniture, deep saturated color, theatrical scale.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Lacquer",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/lacquer"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Metallic",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "mark-d-sikes",
+ "name": "Mark D. Sikes",
+ "headline": "California breezy traditional",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "California Traditional",
+ "Blue-and-White",
+ "Indoor-Outdoor"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2007–present",
+ "bio": "Mark D. Sikes built his Los Angeles practice on a California-traditional palette of blue-and-white, rattan, slipcover seating, and indoor-outdoor flow. His book \"Beautiful\" and his Schumacher fabric collection broadened the look into mass culture.",
+ "signature": "Blue-and-white palette, slipcover seating, rattan, indoor-outdoor flow, classic stripe.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Botanical",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/botanical"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "heidi-caillier",
+ "name": "Heidi Caillier",
+ "headline": "Bay Area pattern mixer",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "San Francisco, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Pattern Mix",
+ "English-Country-Updated",
+ "Color-Forward"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2015–present",
+ "bio": "Heidi Caillier's San Francisco practice updates English-country pattern mixing for the West Coast — layered floral and stripe, deep saturated wall color, mid-century-modern accents to keep the look from drifting period. Her own house in Sausalito is the canonical demonstration.",
+ "signature": "Layered floral-on-stripe, saturated wall color, mid-century-modern accents, English country bones.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "sara-story",
+ "name": "Sara Story",
+ "headline": "Texas-NY pattern-bold",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Pattern-Forward",
+ "Globally Sourced",
+ "Custom Wallpaper"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2003–present",
+ "bio": "Sara Story splits her practice between New York and Texas and runs her own wallpaper line — bold custom patterns ranging from chinoiserie to graphic geometric, applied at saturated levels in apartments and houses for a media and finance clientele.",
+ "signature": "Custom wallpaper at saturated levels, globally sourced art, layered pattern, jewel-tone color.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Mural",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/mural"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Chinoiserie",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/chinoiserie"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "brigette-romanek",
+ "name": "Brigette Romanek",
+ "headline": "LA easy bohemian-modern",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Los Angeles, CA",
+ "styles": [
+ "Easy Bohemian-Modern",
+ "Vintage-Mid-Century",
+ "Celebrity Eclectic"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2018–present",
+ "bio": "Brigette Romanek opened her Los Angeles practice in 2018 and built a celebrity clientele quickly — Beyoncé, Kourtney Kardashian, Demi Moore — on an easy bohemian-modern mix of vintage mid-century furniture, oversized scale, and the kind of slightly imperfect comfort a Pacific Palisades client thinks they want.",
+ "signature": "Oversized mid-century vintage seating, easy bohemian layering, neutral palette with one bold color.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Grasscloth",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/grasscloth"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Boho",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/boho"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Texture",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/texture"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "drake-anderson",
+ "name": "Jamie Drake & Caleb Anderson (Drake/Anderson)",
+ "headline": "NY layered modern color",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Layered Modern",
+ "Color-Saturated",
+ "Contemporary Art-Forward"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2016–present",
+ "bio": "Jamie Drake (formerly Drake & Co for thirty years) and Caleb Anderson merged their New York practices in 2016 as Drake/Anderson. Bold saturated walls, custom seating commissioned at workroom level, and a deep contemporary-art-collection focus distinguish their Manhattan and Hamptons work.",
+ "signature": "Saturated wall color, custom commissioned seating, contemporary art, layered modern.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Geometric",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/geometric"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Metallic",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/metallic"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "sarah-bartholomew",
+ "name": "Sarah Bartholomew",
+ "headline": "Nashville new-classical",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Nashville, TN",
+ "styles": [
+ "New-Classical",
+ "Southern Traditional",
+ "Color-Confident"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2010–present",
+ "bio": "Sarah Bartholomew runs her Nashville practice in a new-classical Southern traditional vocabulary — saturated wall color, antique English and American furniture, well-mixed pattern, and the easy confidence of a regional decorator with a national reputation. Her book \"A Place to Call Home\" is the canonical demonstration.",
+ "signature": "Saturated walls, English and American antiques, well-mixed pattern, painted millwork.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "nick-olsen",
+ "name": "Nick Olsen",
+ "headline": "New York color-pop traditional",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Color-Pop Traditional",
+ "Pattern-Layered",
+ "Cheerful"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2010–present",
+ "bio": "Nick Olsen trained under Miles Redd and runs his own New York practice in a color-pop traditional vocabulary — saturated wall colors, layered pattern, and the kind of cheerful confidence that turns prewar apartments and the Brooklyn Heights brownstone he calls home into joyful explosions.",
+ "signature": "Saturated wall color, layered pattern, antique mirror, painted floors, cheerful confidence.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "cece-barfield",
+ "name": "CeCe Barfield",
+ "headline": "NY classical traditionalist",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "New York, NY",
+ "styles": [
+ "Classical Traditional",
+ "Color-Forward",
+ "Pattern-Layered"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "2010–present",
+ "bio": "CeCe Barfield Thompson runs her New York practice with a clear-eyed classical sensibility — antique English and French furniture, layered chintz and toile, and saturated wall color confident enough to anchor an Upper East Side apartment without looking either museum-period or new-construction.",
+ "signature": "Saturated walls, English and French antique furniture, chintz, toile, pattern-on-pattern.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Floral",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/floral"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Stripe",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/stripe"
+ }
+ ]
+ },
+ {
+ "slug": "studio-peregalli",
+ "name": "Studio Peregalli",
+ "headline": "Milanese mongiardino successors",
+ "era": "Contemporary",
+ "era_sort": 2020,
+ "city": "Milan, Italy",
+ "styles": [
+ "Italian Maximalism",
+ "Hand-Painted Patterns",
+ "Theatrical Period"
+ ],
+ "active_years": "1994–present",
+ "bio": "Roberto Peregalli and Laura Sartori Rimini trained under Renzo Mongiardino and continue his theatrical hand-painted maximalist tradition — apartments in Tangier, Milan, and the Italian countryside layered with hand-painted ornament, faux marbling, and period-correct textile from floor to ceiling.",
+ "signature": "Hand-painted ornament, faux marbling, layered historic textile, theatrical scale and color.",
+ "preferred_dw": [
+ {
+ "label": "Damask",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/damask"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Mural",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/mural"
+ },
+ {
+ "label": "Toile",
+ "url": "https://designerwallcoverings.com/collections/toile"
+ }
]
}
-]
+]
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