We held the party at Francine Gardner’s beautiful store, Interieurs and despite an evening of torrential rain all the copies of Brilliant sold out!! It was a wonderful crowd.
The Miami book party took place at Nisi Berryman’s beautiful interior design store, Niba, in Miami’s Design District and one designer bought a copy of Brilliant for each of the 7 designers in her studio!
Benjamin Moore hosted three Brilliant book parties in their showrooms. The first took place in New York with Benjamin Noriega Ortiz and Carl D’Aquino. Really good questions from the audience and, as usual, Carl and Benjamin were in great form. The second took place in Chicago with Paul Florian and the very talented Kara Mann and the third took place in San Fran with Jay Jeffers and Beth Martin who became a fast friend. It was thrilling that both events sold out.
After San Fran I popped over to L.A to moderate a panel between Catherine Fellowes and Michael Wollaeger at Thomas Lavin’s very well configured showroom at the PDC and that was standing room only!
I was honored to present a Hue Award to the very talented team of D’Aquino Monaco a few days after I came back from the west coast and subsequently I moderated a panel between Jamie Drake and Benjamin Noriega Ortiz at the 92 Street Y’s Tribeca branch that was packed to the rafters. Please check out this blog from Office Insight that reported the event. http://current.officeinsight.com/_pdf_/OI043012.pdf
Stripes book signings – the first one is in NYC. Please come!
Here’s one from the archives! Video of an interview I conducted with Ralph Pucci at Brooklyn Design a few years ago www.elledecor.com/…/interview-ralph-pucci-video-11349333…
I’m currently working on my next book, Interior Portraits/Going Home (working title) for Rizzoli so I’m scouting personal, heartfelt interiors all over the place. It’s a tough job but someone has to do it:) I have shoots planned in Los Angeles and Miami throughout the winter in order to meet my mid-February 2013 deadline.