Word: designators
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the store has been in operation since 1854, it lost much of its original decorative finery over the years. Although soda fountains typically evoke the fifties, Billings and Stover actually abandoned their original design in 1947, concentrating revenue reinvestment efforts on the store's pharmaceutical business...
...came first. Then I went for high quality tobacco. (I don't smoke; it's like the toaster oven--just for show.) Then I got fresh-cut flowers, and paper-white perennials to add a feminine touch. The next phase attacked the lighting, an often-ignored aspect of interior design. My blue Christmas lights circling the ceiling and numerous candles have encouraged lots of Hugh Hefner jokes from visitors. But that's the look I wanted...
...never stop searching for a new leitmotif. Embarrassingly enough, the inspiration for my latest design obsession came while reading Playboy Magazine. I had purchased the Christmas issue for a friend of mine and I helped myself to leafing through it before delivery. A certain ad caught my eye. The picture showed a gentleman dressed in a tuxedo sitting at a casino table with several sexy women. The text running along the bottom of the ad told me that the man who reads Playboy jets off on weekend get-aways. He drops a lots of money on cars, clothes and cuisine...
...beautiful Playboy women haven't been knocking on my door, so I've become discouraged with my old aesthetic. I feel it's time to move on--to change styles. I think I'll go for something less sleazy and overt, maybe something more natural. In any case, interior design requires hard work and risk taking. Only yesterday I found out that my superintendent wants to charge me $75 just for using tape on my walls. I wonder what he'll say when he finds out I'm thinking of painting clouds on the ceiling...
Just like Martha Stewart, April Cornell is indeed a real person and she designs all the dresses and linens. Her French-Canadian background appears to have influenced her design, for patterns in Martha's fave Provencal style appear nearly every season. April's signature pale blue and yellow color palette also evokes a distinctly French feel. These hues dominate the store and can be found in many different collections, from the new "Fields of Clover" Spring line to "Summer Sorbet." But don't get caught saying "blue" or "yellow" in the store: instead try "peri" and "soleil...