I WAS SMITTEN AT 11 YEARS OLD. My family was on a ski vacation in Switzerland, and my father took me to a jewelry store to shop for a ring for my mother. He always had an eye for glamour, color, and nostalgia-as president of Dorothy Draper & Company for more than 50 years, Carleton Varney's signature was that romantic element. But seeing my mother's delight when opening the ring, the loving sense it engendered between my parents, was an explosive, powerful feeling for me. This, with the excitement of skiing and probably too much Swiss chocolate, made the memory transformative. And it's what I've aimed for since-to recreate that atomic feeling of presenting a little gem to someone you love. That's the drug for me. Jewelry is simply my language. I believe it was Gustav Mahler who said if a composer could say what he wanted to say in words, he'd never write music.
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The BOLD and the BRILLIANT
Five indie design ateliers are cutting an innovative path for tomorrow's jewels, from novel geometries to 3D-printed botanicals.
What's the Correct Word...
Designers are split on curtains versus drapery.
Palm DYNASTY
PALM BEACH HAS LONG BEEN AN EPICENTER OF POSH, but now its design lure has the luxury world buzzing louder than ever. With the BOOM IN DESIGN EVERYTHINGfrom shops to events to contemporary arts-could the SIZZLING ISLAND PLAYGROUND get any hotter?
Outside Voices
Art and nature converge in Ann and David Sutherland's Dallas home, where one-of a-kind furnishings and objects speak freely with the garden..
MR. WATSON'S OPUS
In his Upper West Side flat, Marshall Watson composes a symphony of exquisite blues, harmonizing lustrous textiles with auction finds and ancestral heirlooms.
THE PATTERN MAKERS
IN WEST LONDON, A HISTORIC WALLPAPER FACTORY STIRS TO LIFE, INVITING DESIGN DEVOTEES TO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ARTS AND CRAFTS TITANS.
Masterpiece Theater
Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin studio comes roaring back with the restoration of his concert hall and its fabled handsewn curtain.
LAKESIDE Reverie
On Alabama's Lake Martin, Bobby McAlpine and Blake Weeks mix this and thatfairy tales, Japanese techniques, Nordic mythology, and Gothic elements-to cast a soulful artists' hideaway.
FARM TO FABLE
Brooke and Steve Giannetti cultivate a storybook homestead in Tennessee, remodeling a circa-1850 log cabin as a warm centerpiece of a slower, more connected next chapter.
PATTERNS of NATURE
Fresh off the opening of her New York showroom, Texan Meredith Ellis brightens her Lenox Hill pied-à-terre in ultra-personal motifs and juiced-up color.
