The Design Dozen
Passionate About Prints
LAMP: When Rosita Missoni--yes, that Missoni--tired of the fashion business and launched Missoni Home in 1982, her sophisticated designs for interiors accomplished nothing less than making color and pattern modern. Luxurious throws with the intricate colors of Missoni knitwear and an oversize hanging lampshade (above) really lights up a room.
KAREN COMBS WALLPAPER: The Web site itself (namarococo.com) is computer art; imagine the impact of gloriously idiosyncratic papers like this one by founder Karen Combs.
TODD OLDHAM FABRIC: Sometimes design is obsession realized. When Oldham fell for the midcentury bird paintings of Charley Harper, 83, he fell hard. His birds flew onto fabrics Oldham wrapped around furniture for La-Z Boy, into two books and into a museum show set for 2007 in Harper's hometown, Cincinnati.
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