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The best rooms quietly tell a story,” says Manhattan decorator Mariette Himes Gomez, summing up the way her understated interiors, arrayed with antique European case goods and generous seating upholstered in creams and beiges, conjure an air of old-world elegance and gracious living. An alumnus of both Parish-Hadley and the architecture firm of Edward Durell Stone, Gomez possesses a depth of design knowledge and a precision of vision that she applies to not only the residential projects she oversees with her daughter, Brooke, but also to the furnishings she produces for Hickory Chair and for her own private label. Lightness and balance define her work. As she observes, “I modernize the classics and classicize the modern.” gomezassociateom

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