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Through the Cracks….
The city of Chicago is chocked full of remarkable young talent and I’m always thrilled to find something and someone a little bit different to showcase in my Buckingham Interiors + Design Showroom! The...
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Add an Element of Good Luck to your Room
Happiness, longevity, good luck, success, strength, pride, and honor. Those are just a few of the symbolic meanings of elephants. In many cultures, the elephant is considered a sacred animal. In...
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Peachy Keen!
I love, love, love COLOR–So when Peachy Magazine recently asked me to select my fave finds in home decor all focused in one color, of course my answer to was an immediate “YES!!!” The only tough...
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Past Meets Present
Twice a year, I head to High Point Market in North Carolina along with two partners in design from my office. High Point is the largest furnishings industry trade show in the world which attracts...
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Trendspotting in Spain..Aged objects become modern art!
For the second year in a row, I am honored to be selected- along with four amazing design colleagues from New York, Atlanta, Sacramento and Austin- as one of Silestone’s “Trendspotters”. The whole gang...
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Thermador Chef for a Day!
Happy September! Can you even believe it?! I’ve been reflecting on my whirlwind summer, full of lots of travel and work=fun. In July, I was delighted to attend Thermador and Traditional Home’s 2nd...
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White after Labor Day?…”YES!” I say….
Who said you can’t wear white after Labor Day (other than my mother!)? Well, I’ve never been one to follow the “fashion” rules and I tend to make up my own design rules too. As much as I love bright...
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Back to the Big Apple!
I had the extreme pleasure of speaking at the Decoration & Design Building in NYC earlier this year about my design aesthetic Modernique, and I am SO honored and thrilled to returning to the D...
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Off to High Point We Go!
After a whirlwind week speaking at the Fall Market Days at the D & D Building in NYC, it’s off to High Point Market! So hard to believe that it’s already that time of year again. I’m so excited to...
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It’s a Three-Peat!
It’s another BIG BI+D Day with the news that we are included – alongside some of the worlds best Interior Designers – within the latest Andrew Martin Interior Design Review! Woohooo! It is the third...
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Swank City!
I will admit it. I have an addiction to lighting. Lighting is extremely important to my designs…It is quite frankly the ‘jewelry’ of the room. I LOVE a great statement lighting piece that adds a huge...
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French Luxury
How adorable is this water coloring rendering of the Hermes La Maison home line? I discovered the new Hermes La Maison home line when our wonderful Dedar rep came to our showroom and offices at the...
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Off to (High Point) Market We Go!
{The Adamsleigh Estate in Greensboro, NC} I had such a wonderful time being a Style Spotter at High Point Market last fall, and was honored when I was asked to host a “Suite Spot Tour” for this...
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California + Cosentino Dreaming…..
My girlzz and me at The House of Rock in Santa Monica I was recently asked to become a Silestone Trendspotter for 2013. As a HUGE fan of Cosentino- the manufacture of Silestone as well as its...
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Brizo x 2 Material Girls!!
I am psyched to see my fellow Material Girl, Jill, during the action packed Brizo Reunion for Blogger 19 taking place in Memphis this week! We are very lucky to have been invited to attend this...
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Trending – Ping-Pong + Billiards Tables!
Are you ready to par-tay?!!! If so, you must have heard about the latest trend in fine dining…mixing the table itself with a table top sport. The fascination with “table tennis” that blew up on the...
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Design Harvest 2013 – It’s a design must attend event in Chicago!
Between the renovation and BIG MOVE next door, a couple of fabulous new additions to the Buckingham I + D team, an upcoming project with Traditional Home Magazine (which I will be spilling about...
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Come into My Parlour, or A Modernique Halloween…
OMG!! Last time I checked in, there was just a hint of a chill in the air and the trees still looked like summer, and then, suddenly, it’s cold, half the trees are bare already–and tomorrow’s...
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A Peacock Moment
Birds, like colors and shoe shapes, fall in and out of style. Flamingos were hot in the Depression and they came back in the Miami Vice era. Wood-&-copper mallard ducks flew across family room...
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It’s a Wrap! A Napa Wrap!
As of last Sunday, the 2013 Napa Valley Showhouse at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena California is history. Sometime next year, many of its beautifully designed rooms will appear in the glossy...
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