Living room in Mr. and Mrs. Lee Eastman's New York apartment designed by Billy Baldwin, with Mark Rothko painting above off-white sofa ; Paintings by Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline on the far walls

How Billy Baldwin brought a petite seat out of the boudoir and into American living rooms

Decorators should never insist on throwing out everything the client has. Even when they are far from perfect, loved possessions add personality. In his final lecture Baldwin emphasises the importa…

In time for a new decade, the AD Aesthete surveys the most influential American firms and decorators of the last hundred years

Through the years, the classic Paule Marrot fabric, Les Tulipes, has made appearances in quite a few well-appointed residences. Take, for example, the home seen above. Located in Bermuda, the house was decorated in the mid-1940s by Ruby Ross Wood, who chose the orange colorway of Les Tulipes for the living room's sofas and slipper chairs. Wood's protege, Billy Baldwin, was also a fan of Les Tulipes, having used it on at least two occasions. And then there was Stephen Mallory of…

Billy Baldwin's studio apartment on East 61st Street in New York City

AT HOME WITH MARY WELLS LAWRENCE AND HARDING LAWRENCE, New York, An iconic blue and white room by iconic designer Billy Baldwin. I’m not…