El Dorado Dining Room

This amazing hand-blown, hand-made glass chandelier is a custom piece I designed for a project in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. It was realized by the amazing glass artist Ernesto Cruz in his workshop and studio in Tlaquepaque, Mexico. Ernesto has created incredible custom chandeliers and sconces for numerous homes I’ve designed and I find his work…

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Pair of Double Level End Tables by Maison Jansen

Circa 1950 Elegant Pair of Double Level Mirrored End Tables / Side Tables in Solid Brass by Maison Jansen.                   Maison Jansen (House of Jansen) was a Paris-based interior decoration office founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen and continuing in practice until 1989. Jansen is considered the…

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The Legendary Tester Bed by Frances Elkins

English style Canopy bed designed by Frances Elkins for Evelyn Marshall Field’s Syosset NY home, which was a joint project by Elkins and Syrie Maugham. This dramatically carved bed features posts emulating ribbon bound bamboo stalks surmounted by a pierced canopy, terminating in “root ball” feet. The bed is featured in Pauline Metcalf’s “Syrie Maugham”…

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Happy 126th Birthday Mies!

Today would have been Mies van der Rohe’s 126th birthday. In honor of the Pioneer Architect our friends at Google have commissioned a “Google Doodle” for the occasion. The Washington Post reports on Google’s tribute and YouTube has a video piece with more details.

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1970’s John Dickinson African Side Table

Only a few names from the furniture and interior-design world cross over from collectors to popular culture. Charles and Ray Eames, Marcel Breuer, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi… and recently John Dickinson. Dickinson, who died in 1982, was one of the 20th century’s most whimsical designers. Born in Berkeley Calif., and trained at Parsons School of…

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Pair of 18th c. Stone French Cheminees

Pair of 18th century stone Cheminees from a Mas (Farm) Outside of the Provencal Village of Rochefort du Gard, close to the Town of Avignon. Rochefort du Gard is “A charming village clinging to the side of a hill, Rochefort is – like Saze, its immediate neighbour – a very active village which organises a…

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I need therapy after Bravo’s “Interior Therapy!”

I need therapy after the first episode of “Interior Therapy” aired this past week on Bravo. Besides an intrinsically flawed premise – interior designer and assistant drop everything for five days, move in with their clients, install a superintendent and crew on sight to work around the clock to deliver a remodel at the end of…

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Wrought Iron Table with Gilded Leaf Chains

Casamidy Wrought iron table with hand-cut tin gold leaf chains. This must-have handmade piece is $3650.00 and available through David L. Merryman Interior Design. Casamidy is owned by the talented husband and wife team Jorge Almada and Anne-Marie Midy. Their online site is filled with a trove of furniture & accessories treasures and includes fabulous accessories,…

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American 1940s Martini Glass Trade Sign

Swingin’ 1940’s martini glass trade sign from a cocktail lounge in Denver. What an impact when illuminated!  Great displayed up high or on the floor as a cocktail table. Wonderful original blue paint surface. “Along with helium, xenon and krypton, neon was first extracted from the air in the late 1890s. Sir William Ramsay and…

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Maison Jansen Pair of Red Velvet & Gold Leaf Leg Chairs

MAISON JANSEN 1940s pair of red velvet and gold leaf leg chairs Maison Jansen (House of Jansen) was a Paris-based interior decoration office founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen and continuing in practice until 1989. Jansen is considered the first truly global design firm, serving clients in Europe, Latin America, North America and the…

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