"MY GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO CREATE SPACES THAT REFLECT A LIVED LIFE," SAYS PAREDES. "WHERE EVERY OBJECT AND DESIGN CHOICE TELLS A STORY."
Alfredo Paredes at Home will take readers through four of his own homes in Locust Valley, the East Village, Shelter Island, and Provincetown, where Paredes will reveal the key elements in his creative process, giving us access to the same tools he uses in every home to decorate rooms that feel modern even as they glamorize the past, to show us how an environment has real power to transform our very state of mind.
Paredes is celebrated for his ability to draw an entire theme from one unique item, say transforming the stripe of a crisp Oxford shirt into a unique upholstery perfect for the seaside, or finding inspiration for a couch's decorative fringe in a well-worn piece of leather ranch gear. He is said to have "perfect visual pitch," creating vignettes and rooms with an energy that feels undeniably masculine and sophisticated thanks to dark wood, iron railings, rustic fabrics, an overall patina, and soft furnishings in soothing earth tones.