Remuera house designed by Danielle Bates Design featuring RH furniture, lighting and accessories
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Interior designer Danielle Bates has built a reputation for her high-end residential and hospitality fit outs. Effortlessly employing sumptuous details and clever layering, Bates keeps her contemporary spaces feeling warm and inviting, and it’s largely down to her ability to source and curate unique furnishings, both from here and abroad.
One of the places that Bates has long turned to when sourcing furniture for her clients is Restoration Hardware a company that has gone from a relatively small presence to boasting over 100 sprawling stores around the United States. Showcasing the brand’s vast and varied lines of furniture and accessories, lighting, hardware, soft furnishings and art, the stores are multi-faceted and notoriously impressive, often with immer
Steve Kornacki, the MSNBC pundit who broke the internet in November with his khaki trousers, returned to TV screens for the Georgia Senate runoffs this week. Wearing a white button-down shirt, a thin black-and-white striped tie and those same peanut-coloured trousers – or “Kornacki khakis”, as Twitter named them – his appearance was met with a now familiar mix of arousal and comfort. “When you’re writing on that board that comforts me,” posted.
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Tola Akerele is an award-winning interior designer with passion for African arts and culture. She is the founder of iDESIGN Art, which allows both up and coming, established artists sell and showcase their work to the public. Akerele is also the co-founder of Bogobiri House and Founder of Orishirishi Kitchen, an Afrocentric cultural melting pot for art lovers of art, music, food and culture.
A graduate of Economics and Politics, from Bristol University, she is a qualified accountant (CIMA) and spent a few years working in Investment Banking before returning to Nigeria in 2003. She was trained as an interior designer at Parsons School of Design, New York in 2006 and KLC School of Design, London in 2009. She sits on the Board of Interior Designers Association of Nigeria (IDAN).