Mario BuattaStaten Island is an American interior decorator. Born on Staten Island, New York in 1935, he attended Curtis High School, Cooper Union and Parson School of Design... (wikipedia)
We put in a library, a dining room a drawing room and a bedroom, and a nice center hall which sort of leads off to all these spaces.
Well the floor is painted and ... it's a wonderful combination of things from Zion house in London and other things we found in books. It is based on a design probably done in marble, originally.
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
This is Florida so it's a bright house with a lot of sunshine. The idea was to have soft, pretty pastels, very fresh and clear.
It's tough on the owner and very tough on the contractor.
I like all the chairs to talk to one another and to the sofas and not those parlor-car arrangements that create two Siberias.