Richard Mishaan’s new book on interior design is an ode to the little things
I’m tired,” designer Wes Gordon told the New York Times after his spring 2022 Carolina Herrera show, “of being afraid to admit I love the word beautiful.” Right now, pretty is, in fact, challenging. Creating beautiful things declares a belief in their power to inspire, soothe, bring joy, even just to give us a break from it all. For example, why are you writing a third book on decorating? What’s the point?
“This book is meant to inspire and give you tools to create your own vision,” says Richard Mishaan of Richard Mishaan Design: Architecture and Interiors. “The other reason is because it’s really beautiful.” It’s a visual buffet of Mishaan’s wide-ranging influences, from Colombian craftsmanship to Rat Pack style, from historic French furniture to contemporary art. There are homes, like the 400-year-old barn he converted for a client, and a glass-walled skyscraper in Manhattan, and hotels too: the Tcherassi in Cartagena and the Shelborne South Beach in Miami.
Halfway through the lockdown, Mishaan decided it wasn’t enough this time. “This book differs from the others in that it has more teaching moments than my first two. Post-Covid I felt that talking about the design process and how to find inspiration to create your vision would be the lesson you would come away with.” Readers are guided in this direction by the text and candid family photographs that trace the designer’s own visual education, and also by the mood boards of materials, sketches and objects that introduce each chapter. “The mood boards are what I create for each project before I present to my client. It helps me visualize the direction of the project at the beginning, and then it allows everyone to follow the through line at all levels. So, apart from being small works of art, they are also a kind of visual GPS.
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They are also a snapshot of Mishaan’s own generous and rich cultural world. The one seen here shows as much of Mishaan’s point of view, at least to me, as any of the rooms featured in the book. I gave Richard the gold Lalaounis pendant on the red satin ribbon. It was Christmas 2020, and I wanted to thank him for stopping by almost every day in the preceding months.
I open the November 2022 issue, in my editor’s letter, by saying that philanthropy is about answering a simple question: “What can I do?” I’ll close by saying this: Mishaan is a philanthropist in the traditional sense – he sits on boards and is a big patron of the arts – but he also always checks in with his friends. It can be that simple. And it’s beautiful.
This story appears in the November 2022 issue of Town & Country. JOIN NOW
Editor-in-Chief Stellene Volandes is a jewelery expert, and the author of Jeweller: Masters and Mavericks of Modern Design (Rizzoli).
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