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'''Rose Tarlow''' is an interior designer, a furniture and textile designer, and an author based in [[Los Angeles, California]]. She is known for having designed elegant residences for a small number of notable clients. She is the author of ''Private House'', a memoir of her interior design activities, first published in 2001.
'''Rose Tarlow''' is an interior designer, a furniture and textile designer, and an author based in [[Los Angeles, California]]. She is known for having designed elegant residences for a small number of notable clients. She is the author of ''Private House'', a memoir of her interior design activities, first published in 2001. In 2004, the magazine editor Marian McEvoy wrote that Tarlow, along with [[Albert Hadley]], [[Jacques Grange]], [[Michael Taylor (designer)|Michael Taylor]], [[Renzo Mongiardino]], and [[John Stefanidis]], were "six design superstars who have had an enormous impact on me and practically everyone else in the design world."<ref>Marian McEvoy, "Observations on Designers," ''Veranda'', May–June 2004.</ref>
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==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Tarlow graduated from Emerson College in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science in Theater Arts.<ref>''[https://www.archive.org/details/emersonianemerso1960unse/page/29/mode/1up/ Emerson College Yearbook, 1960, Rose Khedouri.]''</ref> She married in 1961,<ref>Manhattan Marriage License #1905 (1961).</ref> after which she attended classes at the [[New York School of Interior Design]] and the [[Parsons School of Design]], and established an interior design shop in [[Englewood, New Jersey]].<ref>Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," ''The New York Times'', December 6, 2001.</ref><ref>"Decorating: Rose Tarlow Sees Beauty," ''Los Angeles Times'', December 7, 1994.</ref> In 1971, having divorced and moved to California, she married the lawyer Barry Tarlow.<ref>California Marriage Index, 1971, Rose Khedouri.</ref> She established R. Tarlow Antiques in 1974, and Rose Tarlow Melrose House in 1981.<ref>corporationwiki.com website.</ref>
Tarlow graduated from Emerson College in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science in Theater Arts.<ref>''[https://www.archive.org/details/emersonianemerso1960unse/page/29/mode/1up/ Emerson College Yearbook, 1960, Rose Khedouri.]''</ref> She married in 1961,<ref>Manhattan Marriage License #1905 (1961).</ref> after which she attended classes at the [[New York School of Interior Design]] and the [[Parsons School of Design]], and established an interior design shop in [[Englewood, New Jersey]].<ref>Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," ''The New York Times'', December 6, 2001.</ref><ref>"Decorating: Rose Tarlow Sees Beauty," ''Los Angeles Times'', December 7, 1994.</ref> In 1971, having divorced and moved to California, she married the lawyer Barry Tarlow.<ref>California Marriage Index, 1971, Rose Khedouri.</ref> She established R. Tarlow Antiques in 1974, and Rose Tarlow Melrose House in 1981.<ref>corporationwiki.com website.</ref>


==Interior design==
==Interior design==
Tarlow is known for creating rooms with highly refined wood, plaster and stone finishes, furnished with antiques (typically English, French, and East Asian), and infused with a personal blend of classicism, minimalism, and romanticism. In her own house in Bel Air, she clad her dining room floor with reclaimed stone from France, installed wide wood floor boards made from 17th-Century French oak in her living room, and added ceiling beams throughout, taken from an 11th-Century church in Kent, England. Like much of her work, the house has a romantic character: in 1994, the writer Susan Orlean opined that "the place had the rugged, sunny, otherworldly ambience of a California mission."<ref>Susan Orlean, "This is Perfect," ''The New Yorker'', April 18, 1994, page 56.</ref> In 2001, the architecture critic Julie I. Iovine wrote of Tarlow's passion for creating "rooms of haunting luxury packed with enough rarities and idiosyncratic touches to upstage a Zeffirelli opera set."<ref>Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," ''The New York Times'', December 6, 2001.</ref> In 2004, the magazine editor Marian McEvoy wrote that Tarlow, along with [[Albert Hadley]], [[Jacques Grange]], [[Michael Taylor (designer)|Michael Taylor]], [[Renzo Mongiardino]], and [[John Stefanidis]], were "six design superstars who have had an enormous impact on me and practically everyone else in the design world."<ref>Marian McEvoy, "Observations on Designers," ''Veranda'', May–June 2004.</ref>
Tarlow is known for creating rooms with highly refined wood, plaster and stone finishes, furnished with antiques (typically English, French, and East Asian), and infused with a personal blend of classicism, minimalism, and romanticism. In her own house in Bel Air, she clad her dining room floor with reclaimed stone from France, installed wide wood floor boards made from 17th-Century French oak in her living room, and added ceiling beams throughout, taken from an 11th-Century church in Kent, England. Like much of her work, the house has a romantic character: in 1994, the writer Susan Orlean opined that "the place had the rugged, sunny, otherworldly ambience of a California mission."<ref>Susan Orlean, "This is Perfect," ''The New Yorker'', April 18, 1994, page 56.</ref> In 2001, the architecture critic Julie I. Iovine wrote of Tarlow's passion for creating "rooms of haunting luxury packed with enough rarities and idiosyncratic touches to upstage a Zeffirelli opera set."<ref>Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," ''The New York Times'', December 6, 2001.</ref>

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===Representative projects===
===Representative projects===


Revision as of 11:41, 11 October 2020

Rose Tarlow
Born
Rose Khedouri
EducationEmerson College and the New York School of Interior Design
Occupation(s)Interior Designer and Author
Spouse
Barry Tarlow
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(m. 1971; div. 1980)​

Rose Tarlow is an interior designer, a furniture and textile designer, and an author based in Los Angeles, California. She is known for having designed elegant residences for a small number of notable clients. She is the author of Private House, a memoir of her interior design activities, first published in 2001. In 2004, the magazine editor Marian McEvoy wrote that Tarlow, along with Albert Hadley, Jacques Grange, Michael Taylor, Renzo Mongiardino, and John Stefanidis, were "six design superstars who have had an enormous impact on me and practically everyone else in the design world."[1]

Early life and education

Tarlow graduated from Emerson College in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science in Theater Arts.[2] She married in 1961,[3] after which she attended classes at the New York School of Interior Design and the Parsons School of Design, and established an interior design shop in Englewood, New Jersey.[4][5] In 1971, having divorced and moved to California, she married the lawyer Barry Tarlow.[6] She established R. Tarlow Antiques in 1974, and Rose Tarlow Melrose House in 1981.[7]

Interior design

Tarlow is known for creating rooms with highly refined wood, plaster and stone finishes, furnished with antiques (typically English, French, and East Asian), and infused with a personal blend of classicism, minimalism, and romanticism. In her own house in Bel Air, she clad her dining room floor with reclaimed stone from France, installed wide wood floor boards made from 17th-Century French oak in her living room, and added ceiling beams throughout, taken from an 11th-Century church in Kent, England. Like much of her work, the house has a romantic character: in 1994, the writer Susan Orlean opined that "the place had the rugged, sunny, otherworldly ambience of a California mission."[8] In 2001, the architecture critic Julie I. Iovine wrote of Tarlow's passion for creating "rooms of haunting luxury packed with enough rarities and idiosyncratic touches to upstage a Zeffirelli opera set."[9]

Representative projects

Written works

References

  1. ^ Marian McEvoy, "Observations on Designers," Veranda, May–June 2004.
  2. ^ Emerson College Yearbook, 1960, Rose Khedouri.
  3. ^ Manhattan Marriage License #1905 (1961).
  4. ^ Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," The New York Times, December 6, 2001.
  5. ^ "Decorating: Rose Tarlow Sees Beauty," Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1994.
  6. ^ California Marriage Index, 1971, Rose Khedouri.
  7. ^ corporationwiki.com website.
  8. ^ Susan Orlean, "This is Perfect," The New Yorker, April 18, 1994, page 56.
  9. ^ Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," The New York Times, December 6, 2001.
  10. ^ Elizabeth Lambert, "On Belgrave Square," Architectural Digest, March 1989.
  11. ^ Michael Webb, "California Pastoral," Architectural Digest, June 1991.
  12. ^ "Decorating: Rose Tarlow Sees Beauty," Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1994.
  13. ^ Mayer Rus, "Brentwood Estate with a Museum-worthy Art Collection," Architectural Digest, August 2015.
  14. ^ Susan Orlean, "This is Perfect," The New Yorker, April 18, 1994, page 52.
  15. ^ Anne Raver, "The Sage of Luxury Landscapes," The New York Times, October 2, 2004.
  16. ^ Norman Kolpas, "A Back-road Masterpiece in Horse Country," Colorado Homes and Lifestyles, August 2016.


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