Not only does our client love to entertain friends and colleagues. they also have a family of five grown children (and grandchildren!). So while the living room is not a particularly large room, it was crucial that it have enough seating to accommodate big groups. To maximize the number of people able to gather in the room, we designed a custom banquette covered in a blue strie fabric. Click the play button on the image below to see more.

We visited our custom lampshade fabricator to see all of the lampshades we have in production for upcoming installations. We’re firm believers in the power of a custom lampshade to dramatically change the mood of a room. There’s nothing more flattering than light filtered through a beautiful handsewn shade — and making shades custom means the size is always exactly the right proportions for your lamp. We love lining them with a soft pink fabric (not seen from the outside) to  enhance the ambient light in a room.

We headed down to Miami for Art Basel on Wednesday (we’ll share some of our favorite pieces next week). It was fun to see the work of Canadian painter Brian Rideout who paints interiors that he finds mostly in interior design magazines. We spotted this familiar room of Bunny Mellon’s and had to take a peak at Rideout’s work.