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"AD 100 Retrospective: Karin Blake\nThe California-based designer reviews her projects shown in AD over the years.\n\"I miss this farm. I wish I had kept it. The children grew up and our lives went in different directions. I loved restoring it. It was one of the oldest farms on the island.\"\n\nBlake restored this Martha's Vineyard farmhouse for her family. (February 1993)\n\"The pineapple four-poster bed was in my grandmother's house and I was born in it. I have since given it to my grand daughter Clementine.\"\n\nThe master bedroom of Blake's onetime Martha's Vineyard property. (Febrary 1993)\n\"Architecturally, this was my favorite house. It was originally designed by Thorton Abell for an artist.\"\n\nThe living room of Blake's onetime Malibu residence. A circa 1900 Canadian swan rests atop the circa 1820 green-painted cupboard. The lay figures are 15th-century Portuguese. (October 1993)\n\"The kitchen has an industrial feel. I installed the large steel windows for maximum light. It's a great kitchen to cook in\u2014everything within reach.\"\n\nFor her Malibu residence, Blake created a kitchen more in keeping with the gallery concept. Metal hands from a glove factory in New York are displayed on the range. (October 1998)\n\"An indestructible farm table for entertaining\u2014it's lovely at night with a warm fire.\"\n\nThe 18th-century chimney breast in Blake's Malibu residence dining area is from New England. (October 1998)\n\"The shooting gallery cowboys are my favorite pieces of Folk Art.\"\n\nIn the breakfast area of her Malibu residence, Blake displays a pair of circa 1920 cast-sheet-iron cowboys once used as shooting gallery targets. (October 1998)\n\"This house had marvelous space. It resembled a modern California barn\u2014ideal for an art collector.\"\n\nPainted floorboards from a 19th-century clothing store are above custom-designed cabinets in the study of a Los Angeles home. (March 2004)\n\"The antique mill table dominates the kitchen and serves as a center island. The factory lights add an industrial look. The stools are from Design Within Reach.\"\n\nThe antique table was found at the New York Industrial Fair and centers the kitchen of this Los Angeles home. (March 2004)\n\"A large and spacious living room filled with antiques, deep couches and a piano-perfect for entertaining.\"\n\nIn the living room of a couple's Beverly Hills home, a 19th-century French artist's model is near an antique French armoire. (December 2006)\n\"The clients loved my dining table so I had mine copied for them.\"\n\nThe dining room of the Beverly Hills home, accented by a 19th-century bull weathervane and tin stars. (December 2006)\nOne of my favorite rooms. The bookcases are on all four walls\u2014a perfect office for a writer.\n\nFor the office of the Beverly Hills home, the client wanted a space where his kids could work too. (December 2006)\n\"A large master with lots of open space and windows that filter the light through the tree tops. I designed the bed.\"\n\nIn the master bathroom of the Beverly Hills home, a circa 1880 Blazing Star quilt hangs beside the bed. (December 2006)\n\"The artist who did the stenciling was fabulous\u2014the stenciled rug really pulled the front hall together. I love the granite entry leading into the front hall.\"\n\nA 19th-century sign from a Pennsylvania hotel hangs in the entrance hall of a couple's Los Angeles home. (June 2007)\n\"The antique floor, beams and wood paneling help lose the new house' look.\"\n\nIn the study and throughout the Los Angeles home, Blake relied on 1870s pine flooring, antique beams and mantels. (June 2007)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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