Carleton Varney, Decorator of Questionable Taste, is Dead to Me!

A giant has fallen. This article has a bunch of pics of his work, its fucking amazing, I find him an inspiration, he was utterly fearless with colour unlike most of the deadly dull, lifeless interiors of today

Guy was a fucking legend

Thank God!

I assumed he was long dead, and am surprised he was only 85 (but looking 40)

I love color, but I always found his pallet to be unsophisticated, rather like the deluxe Crayola set, and rather firmly stuck in the 1970s. As odd as this may seem, I wish he was more adventurous with color.

Are the palms handpainted on the wall?

Gayest room I have seen in a long time.

I have a pink dining room because I didn't know what else went with red carpet.

R7 Good for you man. Anything is better than more fuckin griege or white.

Varney said that Joan Crawford “loved having a pink bedroom because she thought that increased a man’s masculinity” and “she thought [men] loved pink bedrooms”.

R9, there was a time when studies showed that men preferred a feminine boudoir as it was sexy. I think this died when "A"s started marrying "A"s.

Chintzy and awful but a certain type lives for this type of design. Not a fan.

RIP.

Any room in which one must play chameleon and "blend in" with the same colors or look like an interloper is a bad room.

Kitsch is malignant.

Purple goes with red

I used to see him in Palm Beach on the gay Thursday night Happy Hour at The Colony. Another old man Palm Beach clone.

I laughed when I learned that his ex-wife’s maiden name was Lickdyke.

Way too feminine for my taste. I can see where his style would appeal to certain people, I'm just not one of them

Too much green.

[quote]I used to see him in Palm Beach on the gay Thursday night Happy Hour at The Colony. Another old man Palm Beach clone.

He was GAY?

It’s extremely well done and I hate all of it.