“Why do a house in just one style? Being narrow-minded is not the message you want to pass on to your children.”
I owe a lot to the esteemed Aesthete (Mr. Lament to some) not the least of which was an introduction to Isabel Lopez-Quesada. At the time he mentioned her to me I could hardly find an image of her work on-line. Fortunately for blogland, her site has been up for a while and is a treasure trove of beautiful work. Her home in Madrid appears in Architectural Digest this month. You can find it on-line here. She does this really great thing, this combination of old and new and neutral and color and symmetry and not, and it leaves me, well, as the blogger himself would say, "gobsmacked." I hope this is just the beginning of what we see on our pages stateside.
Do pick up the issue if you haven't as it focuses on designers' own homes which tend to be my favorites. Suzanne Kasler in Atlanta. David Easton, a long-time favorite, in Tulsa, my hometown. The issue would only have been better had it come wrapped in a red bow.
Image, Architectural Digest, April 2012, produced by Howard Christian; photography Simon Watson.
By the way, AD pays me for what I do there, but not for what I do here. What I do here is of my own accord. In case you were wondering.
