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"Mario Buatta's Romantic Bedrooms\nThe distinguished New York designer conceives dazzling, luxurious bedrooms. Here, he talks to AD about his approach to the most important room in the house, and we present a collection of his extraordinary creations\nFor the lavender-walled Tribeca bedroom of singer Mariah Carey, Mario Buatta designed a corona lavishly swathed in apricot fabrics. The floral pattern used on the headboard, bed skirt, and button-tufted side chair is by Bennison, and the carpeting is from Stark. (November 2001)\nThe Georgian-inspired canopy bed Buatta designed for a client's New York City pied-\u00E0-terre serves as \"a separate room within a room,\" the tastemaker says. A tulip-print fabric by Scalamandr\u00E9 is used throughout the space, which features carpeting by Stark and a mirror from Florian Papp. Buatta stri\u00E9d the walls in a warm shade of apricot. (February 1999)\nIn the Manhattan maisonette of Patricia Altschul\u2014the apartment was once home to design grande dame Sister Parish and, before that, to movie star Gloria Swanson\u2014Buatta nestled an antique Chippendale bed into a mirrored niche. With lively colors and ruffled edges, a floral chintz by Colefax and Fowler complements the bed's fanciful lines. The bed linens are a color-coordinated combination of D. Porthault patterns, including Coeurs (pillowcase), Tr\u00E8fles (flat sheet), and Pois de Senteur (roll). (February 2008)\n\"If you don't have a great room, covering it in one fabric can hide a multitude of sins,\" Buatta says, describing this bedroom on Long Island's North Shore. The space features a tropical print by Manuel Canovas that references the views of Long Island Sound. The blue-and-white color scheme is amplified by ceramics mounted on brackets and an assortment of cat-shaped cushions on the open-arm settee\u2014a favorite Buatta design\u2014at the foot of the bed. (November 2004)\nFor a snuff-color master bedroom in the Philippine capital of Manila, Buatta lined the theatrical bed's carved-wood canopy with a shaped valance made from a flame stitch\u2013pattern fabric by Old World Weavers. The same fabric shows up on a low chair, while textiles from Brunschwig &amp;amp; Fils upholster the settee and club chair. (August 2006)\nA blue-and-white master bedroom on the 30th floor of a Manhattan high-rise is anchored by a mirrored bed topped by a star-pattern fabric and made up with Bouquet \u00C9clat\u00E9 bed linens by D. Porthault. Silver bells ornament the curtains' sawtooth valance (fabric by Cowtan &amp;amp; Tout), the painted chest of drawers is by Julia Gray, and the 1950s basket sconces came from Newel. (November 2005)\nA space Buatta proclaimed \"a fantasy room,\" this master bedroom in the American Midwest is part of an English country\u2013style house commissioned by architects Ferguson &amp;amp; Shamamian. The lit \u00E0 la polonaise is hung with panels of a Colefax and Fowler fabric held fast by tasseled tiebacks, and the settee is clad in a Pierre Frey checked fabric. (April 2003)\nArtist Robert Jackson hand-painted the Buatta-designed canopy bed of this Manhattan prewar apartment, the pied-\u00E0-terre of a globe-trotting South American couple. Embroidered sheers are used for the valance and bed curtains, which are layered over an exuberant floral chintz by Clarence House. The carpeting is by Colefax and Fowler, the marble-top Louis XV\u2013style side table is from Frederick P. Victoria &amp;amp; Son, and the towering linen press is from Kentshire. (October 1999)\nIn the master bedroom of a Virginia house by architect Tommy Beach Jr., Buatta installed one of his signature hand-carved and -painted canopy beds. Pictured here, it is clad in floral and checked fabrics by Brunschwig &amp;amp; Fils and crowned by a gathered white valance. The leaf-trellis carpeting is by Stark, and a Cowtan &amp;amp; Tout textile covers the Buatta-designed settee, a piece he often places at the foot of a bed for putting on shoes. (December 2003)\nA guest room in a Mediterranean Revival\u2013style house by architect Jeffery W. Smith in Indian Creek, Florida, gets its tropical air from bamboo-turned furnishings and a palm-frond printed fabric. The sconces are by John Boone, and colorful illustrations of orchids are displayed above the bed. (April 2006)\nA painted and gilded canopy bed ornamented with pagodas\u2014the design was inspired by Buatta's own 19th-century bed\u2014sparkles in the Manhattan penthouse of Wilbur and Hilary Geary Ross. The hand-painted green-on-white wood floor has a parquetry look. A Lee Jofa stripe hangs at the windows, and D. Porthault's star-spangled \u00C9toiles linens dress the bed. (November 2009)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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