When designing a space, the world of design options swirl around you; paint colors, hardware, lighting, to wallpaper or not to wallpaper. The list goes on and on, but whatever you choose the carpet will always be your anchor point. The place your eyes glide across as you survey a room, much like the bass in music, the carpet sets a rhythmic heartbeat to the environment it lives in. Joe Carini, founder of Carini Carpets, has a deep understanding of how critical a carpet is in the design process and how it is so intimately intertwined into your life story.…
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How can you shake off the winter blues and welcome the first blush of spring? The changing of seasons is even more highly anticipated this year than normal as people are especially excited to put last year where it belongs, in the past. And, many are seeking more than just a simple spring cleaning. We reached out to interior designer Keith Baltimore, to give us the scoop on how to take spring up a notch. As founder of the Baltimore Design Group, Keith Baltimore, has been an interior designer for over twenty-five years, worked on many important design projects as…
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Creating Beauty Interiors offers full-page photos of ten distinctive city and country homes Kathryn Scott has transformed, including her own elegant five-story Italianate brownstone residence. Scott pairs architectural detailing with classical yet individualistic furniture, cabinets, and art. Her senses of color, light, and space meet her seamless melding of Asian and Western touches – from an artist’s antique doll collection in his studio to an Ai Weiwei table on a wall near a turquoise hearth to a child’s four-poster bed by an open window. To complement her serene, functional interior re-designs, Scott chooses art that often dramatizes nature’s beauty. Her…
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Bridging the gap between Chinese clients and US talents in the world of fashion. We’ve all seen the glossy magazine covers and spreads with luscious, whimsical tableaus filled with shockingly beautiful models who seemingly live a charmed and perfectly lit life. Though we secretly hope it will happen to us one day, we know reality rarely comes so saturated and bronzed. So, who is the mastermind behind all these candy colored works of art? Much like in music you find the composer, the silent musician, whose passion and precision guides the whole orchestra, in photography his counterpart is the producer.…