VT (for all of my design-obsessed peeps)

imagesourceunknown Peeps, DH  had it all; he rocked and swung his way all through London, New York and places beyond my heady dreams.  His interiors, whether commercial or residential may have all followed a format, but what a format and undoubtedly still relevant.  Bold color on the walls, over-sized contemporary art, antiquities (especially Classical statuary), period furniture done up in un-traditional fabrics, and crisp patterns for draperies, rugs, and wallpaper.  Legions of followers can't say enough about his legendary table-scapes where he mixed the high and low, the mundane with the magnificent; Sir Hicks took an almost irreverent approach to his use of objects and famously juxtaposed the playthings of princes with the less celebrated pittances of paupers and ordinary folk.  He was spot on in creating mood and drama; loved lacquer, metallic surfaces, Lucite, Far Eastern pottery, leather, flannel, modern lamps, antique prints--all this set in the ...