Tag: Miles Redd

06Sep

A Fashionable Life: Erika Bearman, Her Fashion Style and Home

Erika Bearman instagram living room

Thanks to Instagram, I have found another fashion icon, Erika Bearman.  Erika is an expert in style; she was SVP of Global Communications for Oscar de la Renta LLC, a position she held for seven years.  Bearman honed her fashion, style, and grace under the company of her one-time boss and beautiful friend, Mr. Oscar de la Renta.  Currently, according to her Instagram bio, Erika has three main passions,  𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝓈𝓌𝒶𝓃. 𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝓇𝒶. 𝒷𝓇𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝒹𝓋𝒾𝓈𝑜𝓇.  Electra is her beautiful daughter.  If you feel her name sounds familiar, that’s because Erika Bearman was the face and mind behind the popular @OscarPEGirl twitter account. 

Erika Bearman 1 south hampton

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09Jan

Biscuit Bedding: Things We Love

biscuit bedding

I would say that the ultimate luxury is to have a full night sleep, furthermore, to sleep in a bed with soft, luxurious, and beautiful bedding.  I first learned about Biscuit bedding when I saw the chic bedding at AD just recently.  I couldn’t help but love the brand’s modern take on the traditional.  In 2012 Bailey McCarthy realized through her design work that there was a lack of heirloom quality bedding for her generation. She created Biscuit as a brand that would fill this space by designing and selling luxury bedding with fun designer prints, keeping the process rooted in the tradition of the south and manufactured in the USA.

biscuit bedding, miles redd canopy bed

Above, one of the bedrooms at Bailey McCarthy’s home, outfitted with Biscuit bedding.  The home was designed by Miles Redd.  Photo by Trevor Tondro via AD.

biscuit bedding

Two of Biscuit bedding print collection

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09Mar

American Kitchen vs European Kitchen

It should not take you by surprise the fact that Americans love to collect, thus their love for big kitchens with lots of cabinets.  European kitchens, on the other hand, tend to be smaller for the reason that Europeans tend to buy only and mostly for current consumption, instead of purchasing and freezing food for weeks.  Americans love functionality and comfort, Europeans love the simplicity and no hustle.  Kitchens in America usually have big room pantries where they stack up on all kinds of food.  On the aesthetic side, Europeans gravitate towards no upper cabinets perhaps as a reflection of their more simple lifestyle.

American Kitchen vs European Kitchen

European Kitchens

30Jan

Iksel: The romantic wallpaper With Global Chic Influence

I posted about Iksel wallpaper, the Paris based company whose designs are influenced by Iznik and global design, a few years ago.  Dimonah and Mehmet Iksel, the founders and owners, have “a unique and avant-garde digital image bank” of glorious and beautiful wallpapers and panels.  Miles Redd used Iksel’s Eastern Eden wallpaper in this beautiful Brooklyn townhouse in his signature color, blue.  Iksel wallpaper is not for the weakest of heart, is for those who want their homes to create an impact and leave an impression on those who visit.  The aesthetic is in general global chic…
Iksel wallpaper, Miles Redd via belle vivirA very romantic space featured in House Beautiful and designed by Miles Redd.  Chinoiserie inspired chair painted in white contrast and blends at the same time with the blue ikzel wallpaper.
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16Nov

Outliers In Interior Design: They’ve got their 10,000 hours or more

Outliers In Interior Design, Albert Hadley

If you have read Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers: The Story of Success then you’re familiar with his theory about how all successful men and women besides having wonderful and enduring qualities have a continuous common factor among them which is an incredible amount of hours at practicing and getting perfect at what they love and what they are passionate about.  Gladwell claims that in order to be an “Outlier” one should complete 10,000 hours doing what one wants to excel in.  The book is way deeper and more explanatory and it goes into greater details about his theory and how everything makes totally sense, so if you haven’t read it, I strongly suggest that you do.
I can’t help connecting everything I read to design, so the first American designer in my list of Outliers In Interior Design that came to my mind was Albert Hadley and with him some members of what I call “The magic circle.”  No I don’t mean Palates, you!, I mean all the successful designers who once worked for Albert Hadley and seem to have enduring success.  I’m not going to go into detail as how I calculated the hours because it could be tedious but only the period from 1962 to 1999 during the time of Parish-Hadley partnership He seems to have had under his belt more than 72,224 hours; business hours only.  That is not counting the times when a designer keeps working mentally and takes every detail of the work home.  Isn’t that amazing!?

Outliers In Interior Design, Bunny Williams

Bunny Williams who worked for Alber Hadley for 22 years.  During that time she had only 42,944 hours.  Amazing!

Outliers In Interior Design, Miles Redd

Miles Redd, even though he didn’t work directly for Mr. Hadley but he got some of the magic circle through Bunny.  Miles opened his firm in 1998 and before that he worked for Bunny Williams for 5 years and before that for John Rosselli.  That is approximately a total of 23 years.  You do the math…

David Easton

David Easton  worked for Parish-Hadley from 1967 to 1972 to then found David Eston Interiors.  He’s been working ever since.  Yes, that many hours!  Uhm… I wonder if blogging counts.  ah.. I don’t think so.  🙁