abercrombie fitch models: Miles Redd at the BDC for Oscar de la Renta Home

(photo by Linda Merrill)

Maria Parasugo, VP of Design Sales & Merchandising and

Miles Redd, Creative Director - Oscar de la Renta Home.

Interior designer Miles Redd charmed a room of New England designers yesterday at Century Furniture showroom at the Boston Design Center. Miles was here to talk about his work with Oscar de la Renta Home and how the furniture collection was created. Of course, most of us are very familiar with some of Miles' iconic spaces - many his own home - that we've seen in magazines and the blogs:

Miles' black & white kitchen was one of my inspirations to going with dark cabinets in my own kitchen.

Above images courtesy of New York Social Diary.

It's seems odd to be saying the word "iconic" when speaking of someone so relatively young, but there it is. While I was familiar with Miles' work, I had no idea how totally charming and warm he is. As I said, he had a roomful of New England ladies (and likely a couple of gentleman) who wanted to tuck him in their pocketbooks and take him home. Miles is a wonderful spokeman for Oscar de la Renta home and he told us how, through a personal connection, Mr. de la Renta came to his home for a drink and shortly thereafter was offered the Creative Director job. Miles was asked if he went crazy getting his house ready for Mr. de la Renta's visit and he basically said, no, as his sister says, he's "always camera ready". (hmm... this decorator is looking around her house knowing she has a lot to learn on that score!).

Anyway, we were treated to a slide show highlighting the Oscar de la Renta Home collection at Century Furniture, much of which is based on de la Renta's own personal collection of furnishings.