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I'm excited to be a part of a wonderful panel discussion this coming Friday entitled Creating a Luxury Bath Experience: The Best Resources and Tools sponsored by Waterworks and The Editor at Large. The panel which also includes Barbara Sallick of Waterworks and Matthew White of White Webb will be moderated by Samantha Nestor, the author of The Luxury Bathroom. Matthew will also be signing copies of his new book, Italy of My Dreams, after the discussion. I hope you can join us!

It may feel like winter again in New York but tomorrow is Spring Market at the D&D Building. The day is filled with wonderful panel discussions and events starting with the Keynote Address at 9:30am which features Pamela Jaccarino, editor-in-chief of LUXE Interiors+ Design, Bunny Williams, Laura Kirar, Thomas Jayne, and Stephen Elrod.

I am excited to invite all of you to a wonderful panel discussion called Refresh that I am moderating next Wednesday for Market Week at the D&D Building. The fabulous panelists include Benjamin Bradley and David Thiergartner of Bradley Theirgartner Interiors, Amanda Nisbet of Amanda Nisbet Design, and Steven Mittman, Chairman of Edward Ferrell + Lewis Mittman and we will focus on how to stay fresh and relevant as a designer in 2010. We will delve into how to stay on top of fashion and trends in the industry, how to adapt as your clients change, and how to survive given the current “economy.” I hope you can all make it and also check out all the other wonderful events going on that day!

I recently had the pleasure of being asked to style a bar for a cocktail party celebrating the new collections of The The New Traditionalists. You might know them better by one of their lines Mason Gray or for their children's furniture line Duc Duc. Luckily there were no children at the party last week! Just lots of fabulous friends and designers like Jonathan Rosen, Harry Heissmann, Kevin Isbell, Nick Olsen, Ron Marvin, Bruce Shostak, and Laurie Reynolds who is now working with Bruce!

Since I live uptown and The New Traditionalists showroom is in Soho, I tried to use as many accessories they had on site as possible. This is something that I often so at my client's homes so it actually worked out well.

All of the furniture names are actually numbers that are meaningful to the company. The credenza that I used for my bar/entry table is Credenza No. Two Twenty Five. Not sure if you can tell by the photo but the gray finish was applied over a dark blue finish that can be seen around all the edges. It looked really beautiful in person and perfectly complemented my blue and orange color scheme. You can only see a glimpse of one of their chairs in this photo but you should definitely check out their upholstered pieces. The applied leather trimmings and details are like nothing I've ever seen!

The accessories did include a few pieces from my own apartment including my gold boxes, Eiffel Tower, candle and monogrammed match boxes. I also don't advocate smoking but the multi-colored Nat Sherman cigarettes in the silver cup were a nod to A Single Man and added more color.

While my styling project was like something I would do in a client's home, it couldn't compare with the work of real stylist Frances Bailey! She styled the Armoire No. Five Sixty Four with an orange lacquered interior that I loved! You can have the interiors lacquered any color and it's a fun surprise to find when you open a door or drawer!

I love the Domino magazine quality to the styling of this bar by Frances. I definitely think I need to have her give me some lessons!

Brady Wilcox the Chief Creative Officer of The New Traditionalists styled this simple bar on the Dresser No. Nine. I love how the white lacquer drawer fronts look with the darker wood finish. You can play with the color combinations to your heart's content! The furniture is all made American as well!

Monogrammed cocktail napkins are a nice touch to any home bar! I think that might also be a vintage trophy that was used as an ice bucket!

I apologize for the lack of a post yesterday but I was busy helping my friends Mercedes Desios and Alberto Villalobos of the chic boutique Etos with their table for the annual Lenox Hill Neighborhood House benefit gala. Their table was entitled "Unapologetically Extravagant" and with butterflies from Deyrolle and a 17th century wooden pyramid filled with flowers from Fleurs Bella, it lived up to its name! My contribution consisted mostly standing around eating macaroons!

The evening honored the incomparable interior designer Albert Hadley who was introduced by his long time friend Bunny Williams. I was excited to be able to congratulate Newell Turner in person on his new post as editor-in-chief of House Beautiful. My dinner companions included the lovely designer Jonathan Rosen and Kristin Davis' hair stylist from the Sex and the City movie, Michael, whose last name I need to find out. He regaled us with stories from Marrakech but unfortunately no movie secrets. I look forward to posting more photos of the other wonderful tables from the event later but right now I'm off to a drapery installation. A decorator's work is never done!

We interrupt our regularly scheduled coverage of our trip to LA to bring you the bad news the 2010 Kips Bay Decorator Show House has been postponed until the fall. The house that was chosen on the West Side was sold and therefore a new venue must be found. This is not just a disappointment to all the participating designers but more importantly, to the charity it benefits. If anyone has a townhouse to donate for the cause or if you know of anyone who does, please contact the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. I will definitely let you all know as soon as the new dates are announced.