NEW YORK | SCENE | 07.07.2010 | Anisha Lakhani .
Talk of Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment – that wallpaper! the foyer chandelier! the Danube blue couch! – continues to linger after Sex and the City II’s release. Indeed, the ultimate infidelity in an empire founded on a New York girl’s style is confessed by the perpetrator herself: “I’ve been cheating on fashion with furniture,” Bradshaw admits ruefully as she caresses the fabric on her cushions. Sex and the City II just brought sexy back to furniture, and the D&D Building is positively orgasmic when the Marks & Frantz girls walk through its glass doors. Between them, the dynamo duo are the visionaries behind sets for films including Sex and the City 1 & 2, The Devil
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Wears Prada, Broken Flowers and the Namesake Films, for advertising campaign labels including Mercedes Benz, Calvin Klein, Loreal, Maybelline, Wyndham Hotels as well as for luxury labels including Neiman Marcus, Vanity Fair and Saks Fifth Avenue. Both have designed interiors for residential and commercial properties including the rooftop bar at The Strand Hotel in Manhattan. Lydia Marksand Lisa Frantz just might be more exciting than next season’s Balenciaga anything. And stop the presses –they just launched their Manhattan Interior Design firm for residential and commercial properties. Couches over couture, yes please!
Today there are at the Grange showroom to prepare for the Runway to Room event, which will feature design teams creating rooms inspired by fashion. Lydia and Lisa are disarmingly casual and dressed down while setting up their “Vivienne Tam cum Alexander McQueen” showroom. They’re Brooklyn based mothers who glow when recounting tales of their children, but then discuss next season’s trends on Style.com with a facile that would make a Vogue editor blush. “We’re taking Vivienne’s plaid and McQueen’s tartan punk and toning them down a little. Putting in some nail head furniture for a traditional twist, a chair rail, but then
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Runway to Room set:
inspired by Vivienne Tam's plaid and Alexander McQueen's tartan
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