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David Kleinberg NYC D avid Kleinberg is one of the great deans of decorating, with a 38-year career that began at the venerable Denning & Fourcade, followed by 16 years at the iconic firm of Parish-Hadley Associates, which launched countless formidable designers. He opened his own firm, David Kleinberg Design Associates, in 1997. As Architectural Digest West Coast editor Mayer Rus writes in the introduction to David Kleinberg: Interiors (Monacelli), "David Kleinberg is the exemplar of what it means to be a proper American interior designer. He embodies the increasingly vanishing virtue of building a room not by shopping but by thinking, not by 'Like'-ing but by looking. Timothy Corrigan Los Angeles Dream collaboration. I would very much like to do a lighting collection for someone, because I don't feel there are enough good flush- mount ceiling fixtures or smaller floor lamps that are good for reading. I'm an intensely practical designer, and I find that many lighting fixtures are more about form than function. Gardens or historical houses one must tour. I'm crazy for house museums and make a point of visiting them. Favorites include: The Mount, Edith Wharton's home in Lenox, Massachusetts; Hillwood Estate, Marjorie Merriweather Post's home in Washington, D.C.; Vizcaya Museum & Gardens in Miami; and the Lotusland gardens in Montecito. In Europe, must-visits include Syon House and Osterley Park and House in England, Sanssouci in Germany, and Musée Nissim de Camondo in France. Top vintage design books in your library. Les Pavillons, French Pavilions of the Eighteenth Century He is a designer of the old school in the way that makes the new seem pallid and staid, a designer attuned to the enduring vivacity of beauty that is bone- rather than skin-deep. " This is the designer's second monograph, published in March, with foreword by Thom Browne and Andrew Bolton. Kleinberg, who has projects around the world, is a member of the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame and has been honored with the Albert Hadley Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York School of Interior Design. He was first named to the Architectural Digest AD 100 list in 2012 and has been a member of Elle Decor A-List since 2011. David Kleinberg illustrated talk and book signing at Kravet, Decorative Center Houston, Tuesday, April 15, noon. Tickets and schedule, go to texasdesignweek.com. by Cyril Connolly and Jerome Zerbe, 1962. The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present, 1997. Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope, 2004. Les Décorateurs des Années 40, 1999. Favorite design or antique shop in your city. JF Chen is such a wonderful Ali Baba's cave of great treasures, and Joel has one of the best eyes in the business. Favorite design shop anywhere in world. David Duncan in New York for his great mix of interesting lighting. In Paris, I spend hours in the Carré Rive Gauche antiques district, exploring the 70 different galleries. Movie you love for the design element. So many … From classics such as Barry Lyndon and The Wings of the Dove to Christopher Nolan's mind-blowing sets for Inception. Great design podcasts. The Business of Home with Dennis Scully, The Chairish Podcast with Michael Boodro, and The Grand Tourist with Dan Rubinstein. You collect. Portraits, porcelain dinner services … and châteaux. Home scent. La Vie de Chateau by Timothy Corrigan Home. Next for you. A royal palace in Morocco, a new furniture collection for Sutherland. Timothy Corrigan salon talk and book signing at David Sutherland Showroom, Decorative Center Houston, Monday, April 14, 10 am. Tickets and schedule, go to texasdesignweek.com. Designed by David Kleinberg, the Sutton Place home of Thom Browne and Andrew Bolton. This 18th-century-style pavilion was added to the east end of La Chevallerie in the late 19th century and now serves as Timothy Corrigan's bedroom suite. WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ XAVIER BÉJOT 78