Genius Decorating Ideas

Designers are mimicking the baroque style that made Dorothy Draper the most famous American decorator of the 1940s. She would have liked the saucy marble-topped table with cabriole legs; the cheeky plastic candlesticks and polyester-resin picture frame; and the sly table lamp, in crystal polycarbonate, designed by a former member of the avant-garde Memphis design movement.

Shown here: Cabriole Leg console table, to the trade at Vaughan; Gran's resin candlesticks and My Brother's Frame, Reality by Harry Allen, available at Paul Smith; Bourgie Light by Ferrucio Laviani, the Conran Shop.