Barry Dixon
Jennifer Hughes photo
If you could have a second home anywhere, where would you live? Amalfi Coast
What are three words to describe your style?
1. Layered
2. Worldly
3. Personal
Tell us about your childhood bedroom?
(60’s) My earliest memory…Cowboy and Indian theme in turquoise and orange.
(70’s) My favorite…David Hicks geometric walls and drapery in red, white and blue.
What’s the first investment piece you ever bought for your house? Two George Smith Knole sofas in Rogers & Goffigon mohair…still have both in same fabric.
In the history of design, if you could hire any designer other than yourself, who would it be?
Renzo Mongiardino
No room is complete without dogs!
People think of me as formal, but I am really casual.
Things you omit from:
A flower arrangement: Baby’s Breath
An hors d’oeuvre platter: Dark Olives
A bar cabinet: Sambuca
A song for:
Dinner at home: Cole Porter ‘Night and Day’
Working at your desk: Vivaldi ‘Four Seasons’
Going for a run: Alphaville ‘Forever Young’
Biggest Vice? Home baked cookies
If you were on an Ambien high and internet shopping, what would you buy?
Antique creamware and basalt Wedgwood
Do your clothes reflect your design sensibility, if so, how? Yes, they are a complete mix of designers.
Who is your star crush? Cary Grant
What is the thing you would never do on a project, but don’t detest when you see others do it?
Impart a signature style.
If there were a fire, and you could only keep one design book, what would it be?
At the moment…Three Houses by Rose Tarlow
For posterity, what would you like your work to be known for? Possessing a timeless quality.
peter vitale
A Few Favorites:
Movie: Auntie Mame (1958)
Book: Swiss Family Robinson – The first book I read cover-to-cover in second grade. It taught me to love books.
Scent: Creed Royal Water
The fabric you always come back to: Fortuny. Always…
Dream project: A cliffside castle over a rocky shore in Scotland.
Meal: Picnic lunch with cold fried chicken and homemade yeast rolls.
Drink: Scotch…25-year-old Macallan. Neat.
Hotel: Palazzo Avino in Ravello, Italy
Travel Destination: Istanbul, Turkey
Artist: John Singer Sargent
A cause near and dear to me: Historic preservation
Thing to collect obsessively: Aptware
Era in the history of design: Baroque
Museum: Louvre
Paint Color that always looks great: Drabware #BD-4 for C2 Paint
Favorite person to follow on Instagram: Veere Grenney
Dogs, Cats, or No Pets? Dogs!
