RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR DESIGN HOME: Interpreting the Person, the Place and the Dream Each project begins like a new novel, realizing character, plot and action through dialog, personal histories, desire and function. Through Nan Lee's background in the arts extensive travel and design teaching,
she is able to offer unique concepts which enhance the client's personality. With continuous European purchasing trips, she introduces clients to a variety of special furnishings not available to most people. Revealing individual character through tasteful combinations of materials, color, period furniture and art is what Nan likes best.

PROGRAM FOR HOME DESIGN

Establish Concepts and Budgets Develop Furniture and Electrical Layouts Select appropriate Furniture Materials & Lighting Oversee Construction & Installation

Examples of Interior Design Projects: Fifth Avenue Apartment East Side Penthouse Downtown Loft Westside Apartment Fifth Avenue Apt. The first home of a young, well educated, anti-establishment & wealthy couple. He was struggling to be a novelist, she owns her own successful corporation. The color theme for the apt. was set by a Tibetan rug & Fortuny light purchased from Odegard. Almost everything in the apt. was newly purchased or custom designed - A lot of the furniture is by recently rediscovered modernist masters like Gilbert Rhode & James Mont - bought before they appeared in all the magazines. Size: 2500 sq. ft. Unusual Furnishing Story: Living-Dining Drapes: Nan met the grand daughter of Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant of Bloomsbury Group fame in London whom she bought a scarf from. Cressida Bell had designed a scarf collection based on the ancient Tibetan tiger patterns - the client's loved the scarf & we could not find Any drapery fabric to go with their purple, chartreuse & coral Tibetan rug - so we gave Cressida her first yardage commission (which took 1 year to complete). This color range sparked the theme for the entire apt. with wall colors custom matched to fabrics or English wallpaper. Uptown Penthouse Entrance Reception Area: "Mondrian meets Chipendale" Originally the home of Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow - now owned by 2 well known psychiatrists who love art and color - she liked antiques & collections of "smalls"; he liked minimalism & most things Japanese. The design brief was to make the colors look like Mondrian with Asian & European influences & find furniture that fit both of them - she is short, he is tall. Size 2500 sq. ft. Unusual Furnishing Story: The client insisted on an overwhelming sea of wall to wall blue carpet in the living room. Since the husband loved Japanese objects, Nan showed him a 1920's lacquer bowl from Japan with an undulating spiral design in all of their Mondrian colors - thus inspiring Nan's rug design and absorbing a lot of the blue sea.