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"Spiritual heir to high-society tastemakers of the 1930s and '40s, Miles Redd instills interiors with uncommon vivacity and copious design-history allusions. Based in Manhattan, the Atlanta-born decorator, who has been creative director of Oscar de la Renta Home since 2003, often employs supershiny walls, snappy white moldings, exuberant patterns, pedigreed antiques, and whimsical details ('20s-style pagoda-shaped valances are a signature fillip). \"I have the mind-set of a very practical person,\" Redd says, \"but my work is pure fantasy.\" True, but his flights of fancy can be cleverly down-to-earth. For example, he once answered a client's desire for an elaborate inlaid marble floor by executing it in paint\u2014lessening the formality a notch without sacrificing the splendor. milesredd.com\n\nMeet the other architects and designers on the 2012 AD100 list."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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