YOU SCREAM – I SCREAM! Summertime conjures images of youthful freedom, lazy afternoons and ICE CREAM. Re-live your youth when you entertain by creating easy desserts that scream SUMMER. Banann-fanna-fo-fanna Remember banana splits? Sure they were excessive, but gosh were they yummy. Instead ... Read More about The WoW Factor by White Webb: Ice Cream
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Rooms inspired by Sunny Spain
We are the luckiest designers we know. Every project we take on is different from the last, which means boundless creative exploration. We like to work with antiques, or are equally happy to create rooms where everything is from the present. It all depends on the client and the kind of house they ... Read More about Rooms inspired by Sunny Spain
The Visitation
Some years back, when I lived in California, our west coast office was located in a small artist's cottage nestled within the garden of very dear friends. No standard-issue garden, it was an enchanting paradise. On the outside, the studio looked like a Spanish casita, but inside it was a soaring ... Read More about The Visitation
Garden Party!
Summer calls out for celebrating in the garden. To make your parties sing, it pays to attend to the visual details. Sometimes the smallest detail can lift up the look and spirits of your party, making it an event that your guests will remember for a very long time. Afraid your guests will ... Read More about Garden Party!
Summer Stripes
If there were ever a pattern that screamed summer, it would be stripes. Canvas umbrellas on the Cote d'Azure, stylishly smart sundresses, awnings floating over lazy terraces – all of these summery things succeed best when rendered in crisp, bold stripes. The freshness of stripes is unbeatable for ... Read More about Summer Stripes
For Design Drama, Stay Tuned!
Great interiors are often inspired by art, antiques or architecture, but a TV series? When Metropolitan Home, the top authority on modern design, and Showtime, the cutting-edge cable television network, join forces, that's exactly what will happen. Bring in six of the country's top interior ... Read More about For Design Drama, Stay Tuned!
The WoW Factor by White Webb: Going Green
Instead of just a fad, going green is truly becoming a family affair. When learning how small changes can make big differences, why not get the little ones involved as well? For the Birds Every kid loves a penguin, especially since the heartwarming film, March of the Penguins. Real life in the ... Read More about The WoW Factor by White Webb: Going Green
Object Lesson – Displaying Small Items for Big Impact
Accessories, or in the antiques trade, “smalls” have always presented an interesting challenge for those interested in design and the decorative arts. Should one aspire to have pristine tables for a minimal look or an assortment of pieces that delight the eye and spark conversation? What objects are ... Read More about Object Lesson – Displaying Small Items for Big Impact
Room to Grow
What is it about spring that makes our hearts fill with hope? Is it that tender green tendril that breaks through the snow? Maybe it is the tiny blossoms that cover previously bare branches, or baby birds safely ensconced in down-lined nests. Whatever it is, spring is about all these little growing ... Read More about Room to Grow
White Webb Selected to Design Room at Kips Bay Decorator Show House
White Webb will design a room at the Granddaddy of them all — the Kips Bay Show House in New York City. Opening this April at Manhattan House, a location quite different from past years, the 2008 Decorator's Show House is sure to be a stand-out. Rather than the 19th century, gilt-edge townhouses of ... Read More about White Webb Selected to Design Room at Kips Bay Decorator Show House
Architectural Models — A World in Miniature
Sometimes in our “bigger is better” world, we tend to overlook the little things that offer a new perspective. From an interior design point of view, the big picture is essential to any successful room. But one should never ignore the details — those little objects that give a room its texture and ... Read More about Architectural Models — A World in Miniature
Lilacs — Springtime in a Vase
Lilacs symbolize first love, and after one whiff of their heavenly aroma, it's easy to see why. But these romantic flowers never last as long as we would hope after being cut (3-5 days). Check below to read about ways to enhance their beauty and lengthen their life indoors. If lilacs are cut ... Read More about Lilacs — Springtime in a Vase
The WoW Factor by White Webb: Change
Are you tired of your rooms as they are? Then CHANGE them. Here are a few tips on creating some transformations of your own. Just say NO. It's true, great design is refusal, so don't feel obliged to display Aunt Mildred's thoughtful (but less-than-beautiful) Holiday gift. It's your house, YOU ... Read More about The WoW Factor by White Webb: Change
The Thrill of Transformation
Every season offers visual transformation, but when old man winter blows in and blankets the landscape with snow, there is simply nothing so dramatically redesigned. It makes the terrain we thought we knew into a place that is strangely and beautifully transfigured. Visual transformation has always ... Read More about The Thrill of Transformation
White Webb Designs Model Apartments At The Adagio
Designing the interiors of a house or apartment for a particular client is all in a day's work for any interior designer. Taking cues from the collections, passions and lifestyles of real people can be enormously inspiring, bringing forth rooms that are highly personal and in equal ... Read More about White Webb Designs Model Apartments At The Adagio
The Client who was a Real WITCH
For her star turn as Ursula, the Sea Witch, in the new Broadway musical, The Little Mermaid, Sherie Rene Scott, a diva extraordinaire, asked us to help bring some magic to her private space backstage. Old hands at designing for divas (remember the dressing room we created for Chita Rivera's recent ... Read More about The Client who was a Real WITCH
The WoW Factor by White Webb: Closets
Do you dread opening your closet doors because the visual cacophony triggers yet another fashion meltdown? Here are a few tips that you may have heard before, but they bear repeating… No Wire Hangers…EVER! Matching non-wire hangers make for a neater closet and help clothes keep their shape. ... Read More about The WoW Factor by White Webb: Closets
Creative Closets
When a home is short on storage it pays to think outside the box. Such was the case in my former loft in Old Town, Pasadena. This spectacular space, a former conservatory on top of a land-marked 19th century hotel, was long on style potential but short on convenient living ~ there wasn't a closet in ... Read More about Creative Closets
Organized Living: What’s in Your Drawers?
Organized living isn't easy; it takes, well, organization! That said, there are tricks to making things easier to put away. Whenever possible, we like to line drawers or better yet, customize them for specific purposes. In a dressing room, a drawer with little partitions makes putting away ... Read More about Organized Living: What’s in Your Drawers?
Shhh! Secret Storage
A design directive for the Studio 54 Patron's Lounge was that it work well for multiple purposes - from cocktails during intermission to lectures, lunches and meetings. We not only created the furniture plan to accommodate these events, but also designed a clandestine closet where folding chairs and ... Read More about Shhh! Secret Storage
