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Amazing turquoise office features turquoise walls framing window dressed in yellow and brown print roman shade over a gray velvet sofa with rolled arms and brass nailhead trim accented with turquoise lumbar pillow flanked by floor to ceiling built in turquoise bookcases.

For the past thirty years, Italian-born Pietro Cicognani has been designing highly customized and exquisitely crafted country houses, city apartments, outbuildings, pool houses, and even garden plans for an A-list clientele. In the first monograph on his work, some twenty of his most notable projects are featured, including a reconverted barn complex on Long Island, a sprawling estate in upstate New York, a chic minimalist townhouse in Manhattan, and a romantic seaside house and elaborate…

We don’t much like the suburbs, but the lovely old trees and the gracious 1920s villas along Katie Ridder’s street exuded an atmosphere of stability and affluence, which is somehow […]

Sharp shades of turquoise and red make a powerful statement in the living room of this Hamptons home designed by Katie Ridder. Playing off the colors of the graphic, hand-painted Iksel wallpaper, Chinese red pillows and a Jim Thompson sofa fabric headline the room’s vibrant palette.

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Katie Ridder is such a natural with the details of color and pattern play that her books are even decorated- when you open the cover you will be met with delightful wallpaper patterns, which you will also find on the front and back covers and binding. Her sense of design is upbeat, magical and clever.

Katie Ridder is one of the design world's most acclaimed pros. Discover all her favorite things, including a curated collection of her Chairish picks!