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"Jonathan Adler's New Book 100 Ways to Happy Chic Your Life\nThe design guru's new tome is a stylish, smart-and-sassy guide to living the good life\nJonathan Adler writes that his husband, Simon Doonan, the creative ambassador of Barneys New York, had \"more fun than you can imagine\" drawing the Prince pendant on a vintage portrait of George Washington. The designer, channeling Marcel Duchamp, proclaims, \"There is no family portrait so precious that it wouldn't look better with a mustache.\"\nAdler strongly encourages avoiding predictability in favor of challenging the norm. For instance, displaying art against a tile surface instead of a plain wall tips the scale toward visual excess in the best way. The artful silhouette of the Gio Ponti love seat's spokes adds to the entryway's optical allure, while a vintage Italian ceramic dog stands at attention with a tower of Doonan and Adler's sun hats balanced on its head.\nCombining pieces of his own design with vintage furniture, including Warren Platner lounge chairs by Knoll and a Geoffrey Harcourt shell seat, Adler has created the perfect place to unwind among his favorite things at his Shelter Island getaway.\nFor the master bath of his Shelter Island home, Adler retrofitted a console as a vanity with just one sink to maximize counter space for playful accents. \"One sink for a couple leaves more room for zhooshing,\" Adler says.\nDo-it-yourself activities abound in Adler's latest book\u2014including instructions for crafting a macram\u00E9 owl. They're a surefire way of satisfying one's sense of creative accomplishment and, thus, channeling happiness.\nThe ceramist-designer-author, Jonathan Adler.\n100 Ways to Happy Chic Your Life by Adler (Sterling Signature, $25)."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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