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How to Get the Coco Chanel Look in Your Home

Coco Chanel, French fashion designer and style icon, was famous for her classic style and form follows function approach. Her influence was so far reaching she is the only designer listed on Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century list. Coco has given us many timeless looks that are still as fashionable today as when she introduced them.

Her little black dress is a wardrobe staple and no respectable
fashionista is without at least one go to LBD.

The classic Chanel suit with its collarless boxy jacket and

tweed fabric has endured more than half a century.

The always fashionable quilted Chanel bag
with the iconic double C logo.

Coco's "uniform" of faux pearls became a style standard

But how do you translate that iconic style into an interior design? Think classic, black and white, low slung chairs to line up with hemlines, textured fabric, and attention to detail...

Here are some rooms to help inspire you to bring Chanel style into your home...

Remember..."luxury must be comfortable..."

See more Chanel inspired rooms here

"Decorating IS Fun!

"Dorothy Draper was to decorating what Chanel was to fashion. The woman was a genius; there'd be no professional decorating business without her," says interior designer Carleton Varney.

In 1923, interior designer, Dorothy Draper opened the first professional design company in the United States giving birth to the American interior design industry. She has been credited with single-handedly creating the industry.

Lobby of The Greenbriar

Until Dorothy Draper, rooms were created to reflect a "period" and design was drab. Dorothy created a colorful, bold style now known as Modern Baroque or American Baroque. She used unique color combinations that were never seen before like aubergine and pink with chartreuse and turquoise, revolutionizing American design. One of her favorite combinations was a dull white paired with a shiny black. According to Dorothy, "every room needs a touch of black".

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Ms. Draper favored public spaces, creating spaces for people to "come and feel elevated in the presence of great beauty, where the senses could look and feel and absorb the meaning of a quality life." (Dorothy Draper & Co.) She redesigned several tenements and residences turning New York's Sutton Place into one of "Manhattan's chicest addresses" (Varney). She became known for transforming public spaces, hotels and resorts like The Greenbrier, Museum of Modern Art's restaurant, nicknamed The Dorotheum and landmark hotels like The Fairmont and The Hampshire House, even the interiors of airplanes and a line of automobiles for Packard and Chrysler. Her Victorian Writing Room at The Greenbrier was once called the "most photographed room in the United States."

Museum of Modern Art cafeteria
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Victorian Writing Room, The Greenbrier
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By the 1940's, Ms. Draper was America' leading trendsetter with her signature cabbage rose chintz, color palette and use of large over-sized mirrors and accessories. Even after her death, Dorothy Draper is still a trendsetter. In 2006, she was honored with a retrospective of her work at the Museum of the City of New York. This was the first time such an honor was bestowed on an interior designer.

In honor of Dorothy's birthday, November 22, we celebrate her contribution to design and her lasting legacy. Her use of color and pattern and her confidence in design inspire us to look at our own spaces and see that, as her 1939 book says, "Decorating Is Fun!"

Hello Gorgeous!

Find a wall - Let's add an oversized mirror.

No matter your style - You CAN'T go wrong!

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vincent wolf via pinterest

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Black and White Bath Inspiration

Because I get to help clients create the home of their dreams every day (I have the best job in the whole world!), I often don't have an opportunity to do anything to my own space.

Our small condo bath had been crying for an update since the day we moved in! White subway tile covers the walls from the floor to mid wall height and a bad patch job hides a miscalculated color behind the door. The classic black and white porcelain floor tile has to stay.

So I've been perusing some of my favorite blogs and sites for design inspiration.