Today’s Dress­ing Via Inte­ri­ors started with the Mey­er­hofer Res­i­dence: a mid­cen­tury mod­ern ren­o­va­tion in Cal­i­for­nia that oozes warm, mod­ern rich­ness. At the sur­face, it’s made up of black slate floors, a split of con­crete and carmel-wood-planked walls (seen above) and orange-red doors with sim­ple, black­ened steel tubu­lar hard­ware. Don Draper would approve. In what I...

The magic of the prin­ci­ples of design – bal­ance, pro­por­tion, rhythm, empha­sis and unity – is that they’re uni­ver­sally applied whether the sub­ject is art, inte­ri­ors, fash­ion, etc.. Domino mag­a­zine used to have a fea­ture based on this exact con­cept, where they would cre­ate a room inspired by a fash­ion­able ensem­ble. I dearly miss Domino mag­a­zine… that “spe­cial” pub­li­ca­tion...