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Posts Tagged ‘Lori Dennis’
Top Interior Designers Decorate Beverly Hills Mansion
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Please enjoy the opening night videos of Maison de Luxe from our friends at Editor At Large featuring huge design stars like Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Mary McDonald, Nathan Turner, Jaime Drake , Holly Hunt, Jeffrey Alan Marks , Phillip Gorrivan and me!
Tags: Beverly Hills, Editoratlarge.com, Elissa Agostinho, Greystone Mansion, Holly Hunt, Jaime Drake, Jeffrey Alan Marks, Lori Dennis, Luxe Magazine, Maison de Luxe Showcase House, Marisa Marcantonio, martyn lawrence bullard, Mary McDonald, Michelle Nussbaumer, Nathan Turner, Oliver Furth, Raymond Goins, star interior designers, top interior designers, Who's Who in designer
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Top Interior Designers Selected for Greystone Mansion Showcase
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
Getting ready to settle into a relaxing Fourth of July weekend, I kicked back and opened the latest issue of LUXE. Then I saw it, my name in the first, official ad for the Greystone Mansion Showcase House. What a way to start the holiday!
LUXE Maison de Luxe has chosen over 20 top leading designers from all over the world to participate in this fall’s show house for the historic Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. You can imagine how excited I am to be included. This event is one of the largest and most majestic show houses in the country and is sure to be awe-inspiring.
Lori Dennis
HGTV and my show The Real Designing Women will be following the action, along with celebrity friends like Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, Nathan Turner and Mary McDonald from Bravo’s “Million Dollar Decorator.”
Any reputable showcase designer list would include the old gaurd and this one is no exception. You’ll see legends like Hutton Wilkinson, Jamie Drake, Barry Dixon and Suzanne Rheinstein.
My Fabulous Friend Hutton Wilkinson
Colorful Jaime Drake
Lady Suzzane Rheinstein
Lord of the Manor Barry Dixon
Built in 1928, this Baronial-style estate is over 46,000 square feet with 18.5 manicured acres of land. It’s our city’s most famous palace and certainly rivals those of Rhode Island Coasts.
Show House Tour runs November 4-20, 2011 and Designer Lecture Series are November 4, 11 and 18. For more information, Please visit www.beverlyhills.org/maisondeluxe.
Tags: Barry Dixon, Beverly Hills Gala, Bravo, Fundraisers, greystone mansion showcase house, HGTV, Hutton Wilkinson, interior design, Jamie Drake, Lori Dennis, Luxe Magazine, Maison de Luxe, martyn lawrence bullard, Mary McDonald, Million Dollar Decorator, Nathan Turner, Phillip Gorrivan, Suzanne Rheinstein, The Real Designing Women, Timothy Corrigan, Woodsen and Rummerfield
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The Beauty of Composting Toilets
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
I just got back from the wettest spot on Earth, Kauai’s Mount Waialeale. Having been told that it’s the prettiest and greenest of Hawaiian Islands, I expected the flora and fauna to be out of this world. It was. However, something utterly mundane impressed me so much more, a composting toilet at Limahuli Garden .
Having written an entire chapter on plumbing fixtures for my book Green Interior Design, I know quite a bit about composting toilets. But reading about them and seeing them in pristine showrooms was altogether different than actually using one. Walking into the small, public bathroom at Limahuli, I immediately noticed the toilet and a friendly sign posted above it (instructions for use). I confess, visions , and worse, smells, of outhouses danced in my head. Getting ready to lift the lid, I braced myself for “the stank”. The stank never happened. On an 87 degree, humid, sunny day in a public bathroom that had no air conditioning, IT DIDN’T SMELL… AT ALL.
I live in Southern California, literally a desert , where we import billions of gallons of expensive, fresh water from thousands of miles away. Composting toilets do the job without a drop of water. I’m thinking if the wettest spot on Earth finds the composting method useful, shouldn’t we start installing these in every public space in our arid state?
Tags: botanical gardens, composting toilet, Green Interior Design, Kauai, Limahuli Garden, Lori Dennis, Mount Waialeale, sustainable gardens, water conservation
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