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How to Decorate

Ep. 50 with Suzanne Kasler

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We hear what keeps award-winning interior designer Suzanne Kasler so busy, and the inspiration behind her new wicker Southport Collection. We talk about her love for pink, modern trends, guilty pleasures and much more. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: How Suzanne stays relevant in the industry and fresh in her approach through travel, shopping and educationThe more inspired you are, the more it seeps into your client workThe release of Suzanne’s new book Sophisticated Simplicity and her newsletter InspiredHow Suzanne picks certain projects to publish and her approach to photographing her book with designers, stylists and photographersHer go-to accessories for photoshoots and why she keeps them indigenous to the areaHow Suzanne uses lamp slips to create a look of proportion and layeringThe trends of darker walls and wall coverings is something Suzanne is now seeing in every room of the houseThe backstory of Suzanne’s Southport collection and how a daybed in a flea market in Paris was her muse in creating the collectionThe difference between wicker and rattan and why you should have a piece in your homeThe timeline of her purchases to when it is available for purchase as part of a collectionThe mix of pieces and styles that go into her Paris Apartment collection for Hickory Chair, and why Paris is one of her top choices of cities to shopWhy she is in the “thinking pink” zonePetite chairs and why Suzanne is always on the hunt for a great oneThe new flagship store opening in Atlanta is coming soon, so check the website for grand opening event details

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs. We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. So we'll be interviewing interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes and also answering your decorating questions. I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Design's blog, How to Decorate. And I'm Karen Mooney, and I had a branding at Ballard.

0:22.0

And Taryn is not with us today.

0:23.7

Yeah, she got lucky one on vacation.

0:25.3

She hasn't quite gotten back to work full time, so we're missing her.

0:29.0

But we have an amazing guest today.

0:41.6

Yes, one of our favorites.

0:42.3

We're welcoming back.

0:43.0

And we're not even doing trials and triumphs because we just want extra time with Suzanne

0:47.2

Cassler.

0:47.8

Hi, Suzanne.

0:49.0

It's great to be here.

0:50.2

Welcome back.

0:51.0

Welcome back.

0:52.0

I'm excited.

0:52.1

It's exciting to be here.

0:53.3

Yeah, you've got a lot going on to get you in here and talk to you all about it.

0:57.0

Yes, it's been a very busy start of the year.

0:59.0

I feel like you're constantly going.

1:01.0

Every time I say you're like, I'm leaving tomorrow, I'm the world really has become, you know, if it's not global, certainly we are all traveling outside of our area for work. And so between the design work and then all of the kind of extra design conferences and I just got back from nine days at High Point, the furniture market.

1:27.8

There's just a lot of other activities that, you know, just to stay relevant, it's really

1:34.5

exciting, but does take a lot of time of travel.

1:38.0

Yeah, how do you stay relevant?

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