Rough Luxe Design: The New Love of Old
This heavy book, with its wood-effect-slip-cover and ready-distressed jacket of dirty brown damask wallpaper and rubbed gilt type, is a manifesto for a style that has been creeping up on us for quite some time. 'Curated' by American interior designer Kahi Lee, the book shows mostly American interiors by a small group of Rough Luxe proponents including Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch (Wol Aug 2008) of Roman & Williams, who designed the hip Standard and Ace Hotels. In the British corner are Mark and Sally Bailey, Rabih Hage (who is credited with christening the style), Michaelis Boyd and the World of Interiors cover boys Les Trois Garcons (Wol Dec 2011). --World of Interiors, March 2012Hooked on the rough luxe look? Rustic with industrial, worn with vintage, unfinished fab and imperfectly wonderful. Then Rough Luxe Design by Kahi Lee for The Curated Collection by Farameh Media will have you drooling. I need to get my hands on this book. Rough Luxe Design features the interior designers, furniture purveyors, industrial designers, and trend-setting entrepreneurs leading this future overlays past, raw meets regal movement. --Desire to Inspire