Architecture + Design
Designer Muriel Brandolini gives a classic New York apartment a colorfully modern makeover
Birds
of a feather,” as the saying goes, “flock together.” But when opposites
attract, the relationship can be downright electrifying. AD100 interior
designer Muriel Brandolini—an
ardent enthusiast of arresting colors and madcap patterns—couldn’t be
more different in temperament from one of her longtime New York clients,
a cerebral, business-minded woman who initially discovered Brandolini’s
work in a magazine and picked up the telephone. “I’m a very analytical,
linear thinker,” says the client, who asked the Manhattan-based
decorator to revitalize an Upper West Side apartment she and her husband
had bought a few years ago. “Muriel leads with passion and feeling. I
wanted to ask questions, and she would just say, ‘It’s beautiful. I
can’t tell you why it will work, but it will.’ ”
It’s beautiful. I can’t tell you why it will work, but it will.
