Interior designer Ruthie Sommers has an eye for style. She can find any old thing, paint it or recover it and voila it's perfection! A rising star, Sommers has been published in a wide variety of national magazines (including two different issues of Elements of Living!), and is getting more popular (and therefore more difficult to hire!). Luckily for us anyone can get a sense of Sommers' style by visiting her chic boutique, Chapman Radcliff Home on La Cienega in Los Angeles--or if you're not in the area, check out her section on 1stdibbs.com. But don't worry, Sommers' fabulous finds won't break your bank. She's confessed to me that she wants good design to remain affordable, and she follows this through by not marking up her price tags with a heavy hand. For a client of mine I found a perfect vintage coffee table for only $300! (In the end I did bring the price up a bit by having it painted a high-gloss Hermes orange, but under Sommers' direction that stayed reasonably priced as well). Mind you $300 is not necessarily her typical price point, but everything Sommers offers is a good value. I recommend the shop to anyone who is looking for that special something...to me Chapman Radcliff is a real find.
I'm a big Ruthie Sommers fan too! Love Chapman Radcliff and can't wait for her book to be released next year.
Courtney
Posted by: style court | August 13, 2006 at 07:39 PM
Make love, not war!
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