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How to Decorate

Ep. 52: Miles Redd & David Kaihoi

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week we go to New York to catch up with Miles Redd, and his design partner in crime David Kaihoi. Miles has been featured in Vogue, W, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest and now he brings his one of a kind style to outdoor furniture at Ballard Designs. We talk with Miles and David about the inspiration behind the new collection, which offers beautifully designed quality pieces that look expensive and high end but are affordable and functional. What You'll Hear on This Episode: Decorating should be fun, and not a source of stress or pressure.How Miles and David overcome a creative dry spell or artistic lull and get in touch with their inspirationThe importance of feasting your eyes on beautiful homes to gather ideas, even if it’s just on vacationWhat it’s like to see things again with wonder and newness from the fresh eye of childrenThe role of performance fabrics and durability in a home with kidsThe balance of giving their younger clients what they want between what is functional and makes the most senseTheir new self storing cushion chair in the outdoor furniture collection blends stunning aesthetic with practical usage.Their special dining room tables that feature options and versatilityThe colors and materials that they love enough to bring in to their new office,Their work with Housing Works and Design on a Dime to help people get back on their feet and feel comfortable in societyTheir special theme of color and wallpaper for the booth this year, and their inspiration behind itA quick and easy way to decorate using wall sculpturesHow Miles switches from designing for clients and interior design to product development and designMiles and David’s propensity for adding in ebony or chalky white furniture to add an elegant and high end touch

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0:00.0

Hi and 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.

0:22.9

And we do not have Terran with us today.

0:25.5

She's still out on maternity leave with her baby.

0:36.9

We are here in New York at the offices of Miles Red and Co.

0:42.3

Delighted to have you here.

0:43.8

Thank you for coming out.

0:44.5

The new offices that are stunning.

0:46.4

Thank you.

0:47.4

We're having fun with them.

0:48.5

They really are.

0:49.4

It's another little laboratory.

0:51.8

Awesome.

0:52.3

Awesome.

0:52.9

Some right hand, like the real person in charge, David Kai.

0:58.2

Hi.

0:58.6

Hi, David.

0:59.2

Yay.

0:59.8

Hello.

1:01.1

We all know David because you're all, we come around all the time with Miles and help

1:04.8

us a project.

1:05.8

Familiar face on the scene.

1:07.3

Yeah.

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