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A FINEMIND [INSIDE] BY AMY ADAMS. ART DIRECTION MICHELLE AVIÑA. PHOTOGRAPHY SCOGIN MAYO. HAIR AND MAKEUP KATE YANCEY. Eighteenth-century French chair covered in leather SEVERAL MONTHS OF THE YEAR, TEXTILE DESIGNER LISA FINE SETTLES IN A SORT OF SUBCONTINENT TENT CAMP ALBEIT A TURTLE CREEK HIGH-RISE, WITH ROOMS , SWATHED TIP TO STERN IN HER VERY CHIC BOHEMIAN FABRICS. T o describe the incandescent Lisa Fine as versatile feels a bit like identifying Meryl Streep as "that actress who's good with an accent." Do a little digging, and you'll discover this Hattiesburg, Mississippi, native has a list of accomplishments so wideranging that you are somewhat prepared to see "astronaut" or "cowboy" turn up after a Google search of her name. To wit: Her eponymous collection of interior textiles has been featured in Elle Décor, The World of Interiors, House Beautiful, Vogue Living and more. She co-authored An Appetite for Passion Cookbook, published by Miramax Books in 1995. Her bohemian chic fashion collection Irving & Fine — a collaboration with friend and business partner Carolina Irving — received a significant boost after the duo was tapped to create a capsule collection for Lucky Brand last spring … and there are two more to come. She's currently a contributing editor at Domino, perhaps less a surprise given that she began her career at Mademoiselle and Mirabella back DECEMBER | PAGE 20 | 2013 in the day. Her seemingly effortless-yet-arresting visual sense means her three homes — in Dallas, Paris, and New York — have appeared in national shelter magazines. Oh, yes, and she has managed to travel to India more than 40 times in the last 16 years. The spark began when she was living in New York, the city where she's currently based much of the time. "I always loved fabrics, textiles and exotic countries," she says. "So many of my friends there were British with a connection to India, and they were associated with the design world. I'd go to their homes and they were filled with beautiful things. Long before Peter Dunham was a decorator and opened Hollywood at Home in L.A., I remember going to his apartment. He had a little model of the Taj Mahal in ivory, and all of these beautiful colors, prints I'd never seen before. Allegra and Ashley Hicks were another couple of friends that would always go to India. It was that whole group of English in the New York design world at the time … much of their sensibility was formed in India.