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"Bedrooms\nFrom the traditional to the exotic, a selection of truly inspired and inspiring bedroom designs.\nCarleton Varney brought a sophisticated take on Caribbean style to Janis and Duane Bobeck's seafront residence on St. Croix, designed by architect Hortensia D. Lanio. The master bedroom's gracious plantation bed was custom-made by a Jamaican artisan in collaboration with Patrice Wymore Flynn, Errol Flynn's widow. Above it, Varney, who worked with colleagues Dan Parker and Andee Schell, arranged colorful floral photographs. (August 2008)\n\"It's meant to feel ephemeral and diaphanous, as if it were lightly inserted into the meadow,\" architect Maryann Thompson says of the weekend house she designed for Doug Reed and Will Makris on 42 acres in rural Massachusetts \"The guest room has the same bed, the same side tables and the same rugs as the master bedroom,\" interior designer Thad Hayes says. \"It was a very democratic approach.\" The gouache is Sol LeWitt's 1998 Irregular Form. (June 2007)\n\"I learned about New Mexico when I first started dating Jane Fonda,\" remarks Ted Turner, who built a private desert lodge on Armendaris Ranch, his 350,000-acre wild animal preserve along the dramatic Fra Cristobal Mountains. \"Ted doesn't require luxurious accommodations,\" says interior designer Laura Hunt. \"He's very cool that way. He just needs a pillow and a bed, and he's happy.\" Above: The master bedroom. The paintings over the walnut writing table and the console in the hall are by Bierstadt; the print is by Catlin. Stark carpet. John Rosselli bench. Schumacher lamp. (June 2008)\nJeff Neal hired designer Thomas Pheasant to shape the interiors of his new 2,500-square-foot condominium in Washington, D.C. For the master bedroom, Pheasant referred to the aesthetic of an ocean liner's stateroom. Sitting atop the circa 1810 Austrian mahogany pedestal, from Karl Kemp Antiques, is a late-1960s vase by Annelise Seidenfaden. The leather-and-brass lamps are from Baker. Bed and ottoman wool, Bergamo. Bedcovering and pillow sham fabric, Pollack. (May 2008)\nA New York couple hired Shelton, Mindel &amp;amp; Associates to renovate their Central Park West apartment. Above: A wall paneled in bleached walnut warms the master bedroom. Hanging over the Poul Kjaerholm chairs is a 1959 work by Lars Englund. (April 2008)\nJos\u00E9 Sol\u00EDs Betancourt was commissioned to renovate the interiors of a 1932 Tudor Revival house in Washington, D.C. Richard Williams Architects collaborated on the project. The master bedroom has a Sol\u00EDs Betancourt-designed gilt four-poster with armillary-sphere finials. A late-19th-century Chinese silk embroidered panel covers the wall behind it. At the foot of the bed is a Louis XVI-style carved giltwood love seat; beside it is a Louis XVI-style marbletopped table. (April 2008)\n\"I didn't want it to read like Florida,\" designer Juan Montoya says of his pied-\u00E0terre in Miami. \"I wanted it to be reflective of me.\" The deep colors of the master bedroom \"derive from the idea that the room should always be ready to give a feeling of Zen,\" says Montoya, who designed the headboard. Anywhere But Here, a photograph by Karen Butler Connell, hangs over the bed. Stark sea-grass carpet.\n\"They wanted a Shingle Style beach house with uncomplicated interiors,\" Karin Blake says of the residence she designed for Greg and Teresa Nathanson in Malibu, California. The master bedroom \"has high ceilings and lots of light,\" Blake says. A portrait by Ammi Phillips hangs near the Vermont pencil-post bed. A lamp made from a train lantern is on the circa 1850 hutch table. (January 2008)\nSally Sirkin Lewis decorated the interiors of an 8,000-square-foot house near Kansas City, Kansas, designed by the architectural firm Nearing Staats Prelogar &amp;amp; Jones. This Way, 1996-97, a mixed-media work on canvas by Susan McClelland, hangs above the bed in the master bedroom. The night tables, round lead-crystal mirrors, chairs, black glass vases, bench, bed, wool satin chair fabric and bedcovering are from J. Robert Scott. (July 2004)\nInterior designer Jennifer Post's aim was to \"respect the apartment's prewar details\" yet imbue the spaces with her elegant brand of modernism. In the master bedroom are Bret Reilly's Lick, 2006, and a 2001 Jacqueline Humphries oil. Rug, Patterson, Flynn &amp;amp; Martin. (November 2007)\nFor Jim and Michelle Falk's Maui house, \"we tried a synthesis of island, bungalow and Mediterranean elements,\" says architect Joel Barkley, of Ike Kligerman Barkley. Wilson and Guidera created the master bedroom's textile-draped four-poster. (August 2007)\n\"This was a definite joint effort,\" actor Demi Moore says of the 1950s canyonside house in Beverly Hills she renovated with her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher. \"We had a give-and-take that was very easy. \"The master bedroom \"is the perfect example of mixing outside and inside,\" she says. \"We close it up at night\u2014I don't like light when I sleep.\" The bench hides a television by Philips. (March 2007)\nLike the photography and art collected by the owners, the space frames perspective views,\" Lee F.Mindel says of a New York penthouse he and Peter L. Shelton designed. \"The room's headboard wall integrates art and space in a gesture informed by Josef Albers,\" he explains. (February 2006)\n\"My goal was to create a finely detailed Spanish Colonial Revival house where none existed,\" says Los Angeles designer Craig Wright. He turned for guidance to his former residence, an Andalusia apartment building, designed in the 1920s by Arthur and Nina Zwebell. \"The guest bedroom gives the impression of belonging to a gentleman traveler,\" the designer explains. (February 2001)\nWith his clients' collection of Asian art in mind, California-based designer Ron Mann refurbished a modern penthouse in London overlooking the Thames. In the master bedroom, the faux-fur bedcovering was hand-pieced together and lined with silk. An Isamu Noguchi paper lantern is in one corner. Kum Kang San's Bamboo, a 10-panel, early-20th-century Korean paper screen, is in the hall. (May 2007)\n\"We wanted to retain a certain sense of discretion,\" says architect Nick Plewman, who, with interior designer Chris Browne, created an eco-retreat in the Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. For part of the year, the owners, Tara and Jessica Getty, rent the house out as a vacation property. Black-and-white family photos dominate a wall of the master suite. (February 2008)\nA family's 100-year-old Shingle Style summer house in the Hamptons was restored and expanded by New York architect Alan Wanzenberg. New York-based Thad Hayes was asked to do the interior design.\"We wanted a house that our family could grow in,\" says the wife. In the master bedroom, Hayes switched out an iron bed for a 19th-century English four-poster. (January 2005)\n\"I don't see this as a job,\" New York-based interior designer Juan Montoya says of his work. \"It's an artistic endeavor, not a formula. Every space is a new beginning.\" Montoya used straw and suede in his bedroom in New York, noting, \"You have to rethink tradition if you want to renew it.\" (February 2005)\n\"The challenge was to make it comfortable while maintaining the magic of the original architecture,\" designer Timothy Corrigan says of Ch\u00E2teau de Gallerande, his 15th-century estate in the Loire Valley, which he renovated. The 18th-century chinoiserie wallpaper inspired the design of the Chinese bedroom. (September 2005)\nThe master suite of this Tuscan inspired Litchfield County, Connecticut, residence, was designed by architect Steven F. Haas and interior designers Lisa Tillinghast and Robert Nassar, with the help of landscape designer Renny Reynolds. (July 2007)\nFor a mid-Atlantic house entirely made of wood, Mariette Himes Gomez notes that her design approach \"was more about finishes, textiles and furniture.\" The chestnut-clad master bedroom enjoys light from three sides. Woodworker Daniel Mack fashioned the bed. (June 1999)\nFor his client's site on Mexico's Banderas Bay, architect Diego Villase\u00F1or conceived an exotic multiwinged experience, one where water is seemingly omnipresent and the architectural lines are derived from the natural surroundings, including the shapes of the bay and various types of native butterflies. The golden-hued master bedroom, which is open to its own study, is similarly designed and decorated to be a soothing space. (October 2006)\nArchitect Richard Meier and partner Michael Palladino, along with interior designer Rose Tarlow, designed a four-bedroom beachfront house on the coast of Southern California for modern-art collectors. Two nearly identical master bedrooms are laid out in the house. One is on the first floor; the other is directly above it and features a private balcony and a leather-upholstered Eero Saarinen Womb chair and ottoman. (December 2002)\nWallace E. Cunningham, assisted by Guy West, created a residence near San Diego with \"structural fin walls that provide a sculptural statement and act as a louvered privacy screen,\" he says. \"We incorporated visuals to trigger memories from the owners' lives. Framing views and light was a major artistic goal. The overhead span in the master bedroom seems to stretch the interior space and the horizon,\" says Cunningham. Bed fabrics by J. Robert Scott. (October 2003)\n\"I never repeat myself,\" says Laura Hunt, who experimented with color and 19th-century style in her Manhattan pied-\u00E0-terre. \"I don't usually do a girlie look.When I decorate, there's a subtle simplified elegance; this was a little more flamboyant for me,\" says the designer of her guest bedroom. (September 2005)\nThe rugged terrain of Palm Desert, California, provides a backdrop for producer Jerry Weintraub's residence. \"The house was positioned to blend with the landscape,\" says Guy Dreier, whose local architecture and design firm took on the exterior and interiors. Retractable glass walls allow the master bedroom to \"float\" over the pool. (November 2005)\nFor his Manhattan pied-a-terre, Giorgio Armani's goal was to make a place that would be relaxed, casual, and above all, comfortable. The master bedroom's 1940s mahogany-and-leather desk is by Edward Wormley. (April 2002)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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