Category Archives: Richard Keith Langham

Winter Gardens

Posted January 29, 2016. Filed in Axel Vervoordt, Belgian-Dutch Style, Belle Époque, Bunny Williams, Carolyne Roehm, Chateaux, Elsie de Wolfe, Garden R ooms, Gilded Age, Haynes Roberts, Henri Samuel, Interior Illustrations, Jacques Grange, Jean-Louis Deniot, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Lorenzo Castillo, Madeleine Castaing, Mario Buatta, Mark Hampton, Michael S. Smith, Miles Redd, Parish-Hadley, Pierre Bergé, Renzo Mongiardino, Richard Keith Langham, Robert Shapiro, Studio Peregalli, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent

L’esprit du jardin d’hiver is in the air, a quest for a life-affirming sanctuary in colder climes. Russian royalty dedicated palaces to Winter, as with the sixteen-hundred room Winter Palace of the Romanov’s in St. Petersberg. Emperor Nikolai I decreed that Russian artist Eduard Gau create watercolor renderings of the Winter Palace’s interior, the Russian Empire’s […]

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The Allure of Orange

Posted November 10, 2013. Filed in Atelier AM, Axel Vervoordt, Billy Baldwin, Bunny Williams, Charlotte Moss, David Hicks, Erin Lauder, Gil Schafer, Henri Samuel, Jean-Phillipe Demeyer, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Mario Buatta, Markham Roberts, Miles Redd, Nancy Lancaster, Orange, Richard Keith Langham, Robert Couturier, Scott Lamb, Stephen Sills, Steven Gambrel, Suzanne Rheinstein, Thomas Britt, Tony Ingrao

Orange as a color for decorating, or sartorial considerations for that matter, doesn’t often enter my design vocabulary for whatever reason. However, autumn is my favorite of the seasons and I practically become giddy with excitement at the first sign of autumn’s golden yellows, glowing oranges, and fiery reds. The color orange radiates warmth  and […]

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