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DESIGN NEWS | books The elegant style of Sandra Nunnerley New Zealand born Sandra Nunnerley is one of the world’s most fashionable interior designers. She has featured in Architectural Digest’s list of the 100 most influential designers and has worked on prestigious residential interior design commissions ranging from urban apartments and town houses to tropical getaways, country homes and estates for more than 20 years. Now in her new book, simply titled Interiors, she gives us her design vision. Lavishly illustrated, this sumptuous book chronicles her exquisite projects and beautiful interiors – including her own New York apartment. She shares how her globe spanning travels have influenced her work and thoughts on design, suggesting how we might also look at the world around us to arrive at our own design approach. The book is thematically organised in chapters representing qualities such as Subtlety, Individuality, Refinement and Glamour. Projects that she features include a glamorous duplex that once belonged to Hollywood producer Jack Warner in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. In her chapter on Elegance shown on these pages Sandra talks about the design legacy that was left by the likes of such legendary figures as Nancy Lancaster and Coco Chanel, and the effect that fashion designers such as Christian Dior and the legendary American designer Charles James, have had on her work. “I’m always looking at fashion, although its influence on my work is not necessarily direct. It’s more subliminal. It may be a mood or sometimes a colour that morphs from the runway into a room. “If you think about it, an interior designer’s work is like haute couture for the home. “We design and make all our curtains specifically for each room and use dressmaker details such as hand-stitched pleats and tucks. Every fabric has its own particular weight and texture, and that will determine how it folds and falls – the drape in other words. And, of course, with curtains just as with a dress, it’s all in the drape,” she says. On elegance she states: “I think true elegance is about being comfortable with yourself and gracious towards others. And that applies to the rooms I design as well. They’re not fussy or formal. Although all the details have been carefully thought through, the look is still relaxed. For me, it all stems from comfort – the key ingredient to an interior with true, timeless elegance.” B ■ Sandra Nunnerley Interiors is published by Powerhouse Books Sandra Nunnerley Interiors 41 East 57th St., New York, NY 10022 T: +001 212 826 0539 1 Kings Street, London, EC2V 8AU T: +44 (0)20 7666 3093 www.nunnerley.com 90 Bridge for Design Spring 2014

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