I'm warning you — if you've never clicked over to CuffHome to check out the shop's offerings, your Pinterest board is about to get a workout.  A fluffy ottoman with tiny gold feet peeking out, a 70s-inspired channel chair, a chain-wrapped ball lamp, a sleek blue velvet sofa, a rope-wrapped chandelier... although these glamorous yet organic, sensuous yet industrial pieces are rooted in a vintage aesthetic, they're completely modern. Wendy Schwartz, the designer behind them, describes them as having a "down to earth edge". In addition to designing furniture, Wendy, along with her partner, Kristi Bender, creates interiors that employ the same playful and surprising sensibility.     

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Finnish-born, French-educated, LA living, Karina Oldemans combines the practicality of the first, the sophistication of the second and the imagination of the third for timeless, classic interiors with a modern sensibility.  

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Though his clients may be high-profile (the entire Kardashian clan, Ryan Seascrest, Michael C. Hall, America Ferrera), Jeff Andrews is, like the interiors he designs, very low-key. Perhaps it's a by-product of his former life —  as a choregrapher — but his knack for taking dramatic ideas and distilling them into their most livable components, rich with texture and layers of color, is his most recognizable signature.    

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Canadians take a lot of ribbing, but one look at Tamara Kaye-Honey's work will put an end to that. The former Northerner, who moved to Los Angeles in 2003,  quickly made a name for herself. This is a woman who knows what she's doing.  Her interiors are traditional without being stuffy, she knows how to use a vintage piece without getting mired in the vernacular of the past, and she has a former fashion buyer's flair for mixing pattern and shape without it looking overly theatrical or clownish. You were saying?

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For those among you who are just be starting out, hoping to one day make a name for youself in the world of interior design, the story of Annie Kelly is relatable. Trained as an artist, she became a color consultant. It was after images of her own home were published that she began to attract clients, who wanted her style — unusual color combinations, Asian elements (the influence of mentor Tony Duquette) and a casual/glamor mash-up that seems to be the special province of the Australians  — for their own (though it wasn't until a renovation she had worked on, Frank Lloyd Wright's La Miniatura in Pasadena, was featured on the cover of Architectural Digest that she realized that she'd changed professions!).  

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Last week I was at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami giving a presentation and signing my new book David Stark: The Art of the Party. It was a fabulous day not only because the crowd was amazing, but the museum has a lot of meaning to me — it is the site of one of my favorite projects in the book:   the recent 15^th Anniversary Gala we created for MOCA.

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With a perfectly-matched duo, it's hard to think of one without the other: Batman and Robin, Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Abbot and Costello, Sonny and Cher. To that list, add Ron Woodson and Jaime Rummerfield.  The always-impeccable Ron Woodson and the perenially elegant Jaime Rummerfield are as sophisticated as the interiors they create under their Woodson & Rummerfield House of Design banner. Filtering the glamor of old Hollywood through a modern sensibility, their luxurious interiors are colorful and sleek, textural and whimsical.  

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Molly Luetkemeyer's space from CA Home & Design's "Small Space, Big Style" House Tour floored me (the opening shot and the one with the drums are both photos of her work). 

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On first glance, the events in my new book The Art of the Party are large and extravagant, but the truth is that those events are filled with smart ideas that utilize inexpensive, highly accessible, every day materials that can be lassoed for parties of any scale – even a dinner party for six at home! 

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One word. Donghia. Learning that Chuck Chewning is the storied design house's creative director pretty much tells you all you need to know. 

If your mind is still drawing a blank, understanding that Angelo Donghia defined the interior design vocabulary of the 70s and 80s — invitingly plump sofas and armchairs, textiles with intriguing multicolored patterns, glossy walls and ceilings — may put it in perspective. It's a look that still resonates today. 

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