Rose Tarlow
Born
Rose Khedouri
EducationEmerson College (BS 1960), and the New York School of Interior Design
Occupation(s)Interior Designer and Author
Spouse
Barry Tarlow
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(m. 1971; div. 1980)​

Rose Tarlow is an interior designer, furniture and textile designer, and author based in Los Angeles, California. She is known for having designed elegant residences for a small number of notable clients. She is the author of Private House, a memoir of her interior design activities, first published in 2001.

Life

Tarlow graduated from Emerson College in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science in Theater Arts.[1] She married in 1961,[2] after which she attended classes at the New York School of Interior Design and the Parsons School of Design, and established an interior design shop in Englewood, New Jersey.[3][4] In 1971, having divorced and moved to California, she married the lawyer Barry Tarlow (1939–2021).[5] She established Rose K. Tarlow Antiques. Ltd. in 1974, and Rose Tarlow Melrose House in 1981.[6]

Interior design

Tarlow is known for creating rooms with highly refined wood, plaster, and stone finishes, furnished with antiques (typically English, French, and East Asian), and infused with a personal blend of minimalism and romanticism. In her own house in Bel Air, she clad her dining room floor with reclaimed stone from France, installed wide wood floor boards made from 17th-century French oak in her living room, and added ceiling beams throughout, taken from an 11th-century church in Kent, England. Like much of her work, the house has a romantic character: in 1994, the writer Susan Orlean opined that "the place had the rugged, sunny, otherworldly ambience of a California mission."[7] In 2001, the architecture critic Julie V. Iovine wrote of Tarlow's passion for creating "rooms of haunting luxury packed with enough rarities and idiosyncratic touches to upstage a Zeffirelli opera set."[8] In 2004, the editor Marian McEvoy wrote in Veranda magazine that Tarlow, Albert Hadley, Jacques Grange, Michael Taylor, Renzo Mongiardino, and John Stefanidis, were six interior designers who had an "enormous impact" on "the design world."[9]

Representative projects

Written works

  • Tarlow, Rose (2022). Three Houses (1st ed.). New York: Vendome Press. ISBN 9780865654020. OCLC 1295102530.
  • Tarlow, Rose (2001). The Private House (1st ed.). New York: Clarkson Potter. ISBN 9780609604724. OCLC 859073565.

References

  1. ↑ Emerson College Yearbook, 1960, Rose Khedouri.
  2. ↑ Manhattan Marriage License #1905 (1961).
  3. ↑ Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," The New York Times, December 6, 2001.
  4. ↑ "Decorating: Rose Tarlow Sees Beauty," Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1994.
  5. ↑ California Marriage Index, 1971, Rose Khedouri.
  6. ↑ California Secretary of State, Business Search
  7. ↑ Susan Orlean, "This is Perfect," The New Yorker, April 18, 1994, page 56.
  8. ↑ Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," The New York Times, December 6, 2001.
  9. ↑ Marian McEvoy, "Observations on Designers," Veranda, May–June 2004.
  10. ↑ Elizabeth Lambert, "On Belgrave Square," Architectural Digest, March 1989.
  11. ↑ Michael Webb, "California Pastoral," Architectural Digest, June 1991.
  12. ↑ "Decorating: Rose Tarlow Sees Beauty," Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1994.
  13. ↑ Mayer Rus, "Brentwood Estate with a Museum-worthy Art Collection," Architectural Digest, August 2015.
  14. ↑ Susan Orlean, "This is Perfect," The New Yorker, April 18, 1994, page 52.
  15. ↑ Anne Raver, "The Sage of Luxury Landscapes," The New York Times, October 2, 2004.
  16. ↑ Department of Buildings, Greenwich, Connecticut.
  17. ↑ Norman Kolpas, "A Back-road Masterpiece in Horse Country," Colorado Homes and Lifestyles, August 2016.
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