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"Fabrizio Rollo is the type of fellow who effortlessly attracts a following. Tall, slender, and neatly bearded, Rollo\u2014a former editor at the Brazilian edition of Vogue who is now working on the new House Beautiful Brasil\u2014is a magnet for street-fashion photographers from every corner of the globe. Bloggers giddily post pictures of him in all his dapper glory. With his romantic sweep of hair, he can pull off a foulard and fine wool pants tucked into riding boots with aplomb. He isn&amp;#039;t afraid to sport trousers that roll up to the ankle and reveal his two-tone oxfords, or wear a full suit of tennis whites, complete with shorts that fall mid-thigh. While Rollo restricts his fashion-forward outfits to traditional neutrals like navy, beige, and brown, his home is another matter entirely. The 3,200-square-foot apartment, located in a 10-story 1960s modernist building in a fashionable district of S\u00E3o Paulo, is a riotously colorful homage to the periods that express his heritage and his heart: the late 19th century, the &amp;#039;30s, and the &amp;#039;70s. &amp;quot;I think some of the most beautiful pieces ever came out of the 1930s\u2014I adore Maison Jansen. And I was born in the crazy 1970s. As for Napoleon III\u2014amazing! I have no problem mixing them all,&amp;quot; he proclaims. Click here to see the gallery for &amp;quot;Fine and Dandy.&amp;quot;   The warmth of Brazilian culture is undoubtedly an inspiration, but Rollo notes that, despite South America&amp;#039;s lush reputation, most upscale homes in Brazil are decorated in white. Subtle shades are fine for what he puts on his body, he says, but adds, &amp;quot;At home I am very comfortable with color and pattern.&amp;quot;  In the mirrored living room, for example, he has placed a Bertoia Diamond chair next to a daybed adorned with a suzani and leopard-patterned pillows; beneath it all is a rug Rollo designed as an homage to one of his great inspirations, the French decorator and antiques dealer Madeleine Castaing. On top of this, Rollo has layered a zebra\u00AD skin to give it &amp;quot;just enough depth,&amp;quot; he declares. Meanwhile, in the guest bedroom (&amp;quot;It is fancier than my own bedroom because it&amp;#039;s not used as much&amp;quot;) he has upholstered the walls in a Kashmir-style paisley and blithely draped the bed with a bold, yellow-and-red ikat he found in Istanbul&amp;#039;s Grand Bazaar.  Rollo says that he learned to question the boundaries of conventional thinking in his 20s, at the beginning of his career in fashion, when he was living in a very dark apartment in Milan. &amp;quot;There was no light, and I couldn&amp;#039;t see to get dressed. Sometimes I had to pull things out of my closet, things that I might not have chosen to go together if I had really been able to look. But sometimes it would hit me\u2014wow, these are brilliant together.&amp;quot; Click here to see the gallery for &amp;quot;Fine and Dandy.&amp;quot;   He&amp;#039;s carried his love of mixing and matching over to his home, where he juxtaposes small-repeat fabrics with large geometrics\u2014a rare contrast of scale. &amp;quot;The geometrics are very manly and very mathematical,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;The florals and patterns are very feminine. All great designs combine these two. The yin and yang\u2014it&amp;#039;s a balance that is magical.&amp;quot; In his &amp;quot;blue dust&amp;quot;\u2013color bedroom, French tapestries from the 19th century complement a carpet-upholstered chair once owned by Castaing herself, which Rollo purchased at auction at Sotheby&amp;#039;s. His art collection careens from highly detailed figuration (a Picasso lithograph) to formalist abstraction (a bright white hall is dominated by a large Escher-like work he commissioned, inspired by the marquetry pattern of a Louis XVI chest of drawers). Rollo cites his mother as an aesthetic influence. &amp;quot;She is much more modern than me, with minimalist tastes,&amp;quot; he says, &amp;quot;but she helped me understand symmetry and equilibrium. I am a fool for those things.&amp;quot; He also inherited her love of vivid &amp;quot;Lanvin blue,&amp;quot; a love that is expressed in his collection of Chinese porcelain Foo dogs, displayed against the chocolate-brown walls of his dressing room. &amp;quot;My memories are of her in that color in the 1970s.&amp;quot; His mother also encouraged his childhood obsession with fabrics. At age six he began collecting textiles, keeping them meticulously arranged in a large bureau in his family home. By 14 he was creating pillows to give to his mother. &amp;quot;It was a lovely exercise,&amp;quot; he says. For all his affection for deep shades and intense patterns, Rollo eschews them in two rooms: the kitchen and bathroom. &amp;quot;To me they must be white. Period.&amp;quot; His bathroom has a &amp;#039;30s Hollywood Regency feel, with a chandelier, touches of marble, and a Jean-Michel Frank side table. &amp;quot;You want those rooms to be luxurious and clean,&amp;quot; he says.  The lighter rooms and hallways in his apartment always lead into a darker sanctuary\u2014to his blue bedroom, or to the cocoa-color study. &amp;quot;I like to make my life a journey from darkness to light and back again,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;That way there is always drama, always surprise.&amp;quot; Click here to see the gallery for &amp;quot;Fine and Dandy.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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