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Vogue
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Pattern Drenching Is Your Favorite Interior Designer's Secret Weapon
Birmingham, Alabama-based interior designer Caroline Gidiere says the technique can both bring down the size of an over-scaled bedroom and also make a very small room seem larger by blurring its edges. 'When the pattern is all over, it has an effect the opposite of what you might expect,' she explains. 'The pattern loses its significance, almost the same as when you do a tonal room. When everything is the same, it's hard to tell when one thing ends and another begins.' This, of course, also helps camouflage any design challenges, like poor architecture or ho-hum furniture. A living room decorated by Caroline Gidiere. Photo: Isabel Parra She riffed on the sitting room of Lee Radziwill's iconic Parisian apartment for a client who wanted a next-level sitting room. Gidiere covered 'everything in the room that could be covered' in Le Manach's Mikado, the same fabric used by Radziwill but in a blue colorway versus pink. It took 155 yards of the print to swath the walls, three pairs of drapery, and five pieces of upholstery. 'If you want a room to be iconic, this is a surefire way,' says Gidiere. 'It's likely to always be appreciated by a more refined or elite audience, as there's a certain pocketbook required to accomplish it. And these are the types of people we look to for influence.' Take, for example, the Southampton bedroom of Gloria Vanderbilt, a pattern-on-pattern room that, despite being decades old, still feels 'fresh and inviting,' says Alexandra Resor, the Charleston-based interior designer of Lee Ann Thornton Interiors.
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Birmingham's Pepper Place hosting Spring Bazaar
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Pepper Place will host its Spring Bazaar on Thursday, May 8. The market will last from 5- 7 p.m. in the parking lot of the Dr. Pepper building. It will feature local vendors, live music and more. Mercedes-Benz announces new car coming to Alabama plant Select Pepper Place tenants, including Billy Reid, Design Supply, Yellowhammer Creative and Little Professor will offer extended shopping hours during this event. Live music will be performed by local artist Sarah Mason, and Caroline Gidiere will be signing copies of her new book 'A Life in Good Taste. Other highlights of the Spring Bazaar can be found here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
