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"It's a decorating enigma: Despite the number of people who claim to love peacock-blue or be obsessed with emerald-green\u2014which has been trending since Pantone declared it the hue of 2013\u2014surprisingly few colorful interiors cross our desks at Architectural Digest. Some days we feel engulfed by a veritable sea of beige. Oh, we might spy a touch of orange or red here, an accent of cobalt there, but for many homeowners and designers, neutrals make the most pleasing (i.e., safest) statement. Then there's AD100 talent Miles Redd.\n\nThe Manhattan-based interior decorator (and creative director of Oscar de la Renta Home) craves pattern and color\u2014the brighter, the bolder, the glossier, the better. To Miles, beige is Kryptonite, as writer Mayer Rus memorably puts it in this month's cover story about the designer's ebullient transformation of an American family's vacation home in the Bahamas. His client loves the kicky results, telling us, \"Everyone is blown away when they see it. Miles is like a magician.\"\n\nEntrepreneur J. Christopher Burch, the mastermind behind the brand C. Wonder and the forthcoming lifestyle shop No. 9 Christopher, also finds quiet color schemes ho-hum. Which is why he hired decorator Christopher Maya to punch up his Hamptons getaway with a shiny Crayola-box palette. Even Aerin Lauder, the cosmetics scion with a penchant for fine interior design, is passionate about color, as you will discover in our feature about her new eponymous home-furnishings collections. Aerin is particularly keen on blue, which she says reminds her of \"summer and the sea and the sky\u2014there's something about it that just makes you smile.\" I can't imagine anything better than a room that inspires such a blissful reaction. And as this issue proves, color is key.\n\n\u2014MARGARET RUSSELL, Editor in Chief\n\n editor@archdigest.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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