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Chloe Redmond Warner is a true design powerhouse. Since founding her interior design studio Redmond Warner Design in 2005, her work has taken her across the globe and been featured in Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, the Wall Street Journal, and New York Times T Magazine many times over.
You may recognize her eye and style, as she is the designer behind Melissa's Malibu oasis, itself featured in Architectural Digest and Rip & Tan.
The Everydays:
Morning Routine in 5 Words: snooze, coffee, toast, french butter
The best product you use in the morning: Supergoop Glow Screen
Morning Routine in 5 Words: splash, potions, read read read
The best product you use in the morning: de Mamiel Gravity Fix
Who you spend your days with: The most capable and creative women you’ve ever met: the ladies of RAD
Who you spend your evenings with: My sweet family and pets
Favorite Work Outfit: I like things to be feminine and sporty and maximal… this is a moving target
Go-To Coffee or Tea Order: something sweet from BlueBottle near the office
The tv show or movie you always recommend: Slow Horses; Bad Monkey; Hacks
The takeout dish you can’t live without: excellent burritos at Rico Rico
The dish you make when you have friends over: usually something from a new cookbook I’ve bought. Recently loving The Cook You Want to Be by Andy Baranghini
The Special Days:
Favorite Vacation Destination: Hawaii
Favorite “Fancy” Look (clothes, shoes, bags, jewels!): something from Zimmermann or Dries, a shoe that won’t hobble me and yes to jewels. I start with earrings and work down, and will skip either necklace or bracelet, but never skip rings.
Favorite Show / Concert / Performer you’ve seen: sassy newcomer Taylor Swift. she’s going places, mark my words.
Favorite way to celebrate yourself: something from Irene Neuwirth.
The best gift you’ve ever received: one night only in Vegas with tickets to Garth Brooks. Not an obvious choice but I will be reliving my first concert and I love nostalgia.
The Funny Bits:
Best Prank You’ve Pulled: HA! I love April Fools and my favorite was the year I froze bowls of cheerios with the spoon in them, then gave them to my poor little kids. They were so hilariously baffled.
Your High School Persona: Not as nice as I am now, if I’m honest I was too into boys and status.
Best Costume You’ve Worn: A tie between A big functioning box of Franzia; Half of Ron & Rhonda Santis power couple
Your Real Housewives Tagline: “I’m Chloe and the producers already regret casting me because I have good boundaries and use “I” statements”
Your most particular particular (the little thing you’re pickiest about!): Noise, being interrupted, basically anything that takes me out of my flow state
Where We Can Find You:
Socials: @redmondaldrichdesign; https://chloewarner.substack.com/
Current Location: Oakland, CA
Favorite Spot to Consume Content: Big comfy chair in my big comfy living room
Where You Work: We’re about to move into a new office in Berkeley!
More from Chloe:
You take on both residential and commercial design projects. What do you see as the biggest differences between these kinds of projects? Love them both and I think it’s nice to vary my firm’s diet of projects, commercial is unemotional and focused on moving the design forward on time, on budget. Residential has more of an emotional component - people care about their homes! And that allows for a more idiosyncratic and refined design phase. They’re both wonderful and fun, very nice to have both.
How do you think the landscape of interior design (and interior designers) has changed in recent years? The biggest change in my career has been access and editing. When I first started there were barriers between clients and the good stuff; trade fabrics, antiques, showroom pieces, custom workrooms. But now there is almost 100% access so the value-add of a designer is to be able to edit.
You’ve now worked with Melissa on two projects—designing her house in Malibu (featured in Architectural Digest) and, more recently, her cabin in Utah. Tell us the truth—what is she like as a client? She’s fucking incredible. Taste-level through the roof, decisive, and aptitude about where to spend and where to splurge and how to move things forward. This translates into her getting top drawer projects without a ton of angst and on unprecedented timelines, I wish she would do a TedTalk on how to run a project.
Chloe's Particular Picks
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