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"Inspiring Green Rooms from the AD Archives\nThe all-knowing color experts at Pantone have declared emerald\u2014number 17-5641 to be exact\u2014the official hue of 2013. Find decorating ideas for the year ahead in our slide show of envy-inducing green rooms from our pages\n\"I once saw a jade-color library in Venice and mentally filed it away for future use,\" jewelry designer Elizabeth Locke says of her inspiration for the clover-green library at her estate in Virginia hunt country. Working with decorator Alison Martin, Locke painted the walls and shelving in Benjamin Moore's Van Alen Green and trimmed them in gold to provide a bold background for her antiques, among them the Turkish revival slipper chair at center. (October 2011)\nVibrant green silk wall panels and a ceiling clad in gold teapaper add glamour to the dining room of Timothy Corrigan's Los Angeles home. \"I like smaller dinner parties,\" says the interior designer. \"I really like to be able to connect with people on a one-to-one basis. And since this is where they will be spending their time, it is the place I want them to have high drama.\" (April 2012)\nLaura Sartori Rimini and Roberto Peregalli of the Milanese architecture and design firm Studio Peregalli transformed a corridor in a Naples, Italy, apartment into a high-impact passageway. A hand-painted motif frames the emerald-green cloth walls; an antique Gillows bookcase stands at left, and a Neapolitan gouache is displayed above the circa-1800 English console. (December 2011)\nAn array of greens suffuse the Manhattan duplex of designer Jean-Paul Beaujard. In the dining room, which was modeled on a czarist winter garden, emerald velvet upholsters a gilt-wood sofa and the windows and entrance are dressed with ivy-patterned curtains.\u00A0\"I love ivy,\" Beaujard says. \"It's a bit melancholy yet so tenacious!\" (September 2011)\nDesign guru Nate Berkus paired a dramatic\u00A0Piero Fornasetti malachite-pattern wallpaper by Cole &amp;amp; Son\u00A0with a dark beadboard wainscot in the powder room of his Manhattan apartment. Berkus also conceived the custom-made rope mirror and added a pedestal sink to the petite space. (November 2012)\nAt an English-style country house outside Philadelphia, New York designer Thomas Jayne linked the sunroom to the sprawling landscape outside by painting the millwork and ceiling in deep pine-forest hues. The light-filled space showcases artworks by Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Robert Wilson. (August 2012)\nAn ancestral portrait and 19th-century reverse-painted-glass studies of Naples and Vesuvius are set off by the moss-green wool-covered walls in the dining room of Fernanda Kellogg and Kirk Henckels's Manhattan apartment, which was decorated by design firm Brockschmidt &amp;amp; Coleman and renovated by architect Riccardo Vicenzino. The couple combined four generations of family treasures and antiques, including the 18th-century Italian chairs surrounding the dining table. (December 2011)\nA family commissioned New York\u2013based designer Robert Couturier to enhance their turn-of-the-century English country home, Marshcourt, which was built by architect Edwin Lutyens. Hand-glazed juniper-green tiles encase the walls of one of the house's 14 bathrooms and fretted draining boards are incorporated into the floors. The handblown-glass ceiling light is a reproduction of the room's original fixture. (September 2011)\nBritish banker Stuart Lawson enlisted designer Jaime Hunt to streamline his Moscow apartment. A palette of creams was used throughout the apartment, except in the library, which is painted in what Lawson calls a \"dark British-club green.\" A 19th-century architect's desk, an Art Deco cocktail table, and a sofa slipcovered in red cotton furnish the room, while mementos, books, and a limited-edition Vladimir Putin calendar line the walls and custom-made bookshelves. (August 2007)\nDecorator Alexa Hampton and architectural designer James Nigro conjured a bucolic fantasy for the garden room of James and Lisa Cohen's Tudor-style home near the Hudson River. Flowering vines and birds ornament the parrot-green fabrics and wall treatment while wicker and cane furniture add en-plein-air ease. (February 2007)\nArchitects Lee F. Mindel and Peter Shelton of Shelton, Mindel &amp;amp; Associates chose a bright lime for the entrance hall of a Manhattan apartment to foreshadow the home's Central Park views. The space is delineated by a wall that contains storage at left, but which stops short of the ceiling to allow light to flow in. (February 2007)\nFashion photographer Steven Meisel came up with the idea of a hybrid home office/master bath for his midcentury-modern residence in Beverly Hills, California, which was renovated by architecture firm Marmol Radziner + Associates and designer Brad Dunning. The space is sheathed in green onyx and furnished with a teak screen by Dunning, cabinetry by Marmol Radziner, and a vintage Jansen desk. (October 2012)\nPietro Cicognani of the firm Cicognani Kalla Architect and interior designer John Yunis renovated the New York City apartment of psychotherapist Frederick Eberstadt. The walls of the master bedroom are painted in a custom-blended Benjamin Moore green and graced by a 19th-century French wallpaper panel. (August 2012)\nFor the mudroom of Jennifer and Dominic Moross's Greenwich, Connecticut, home, decorator Miles Redd selected Farrow &amp;amp; Ball's Olive for the walls. A George Nakashima chair is pulled up to the concrete-top desk, and the floor is bluestone. (July 2012)\nThe library of fashion designer and art collector Kasper's Manhattan apartment is clad in a teal silk wall covering, which is complemented by a green faux-marble fireplace surround with stainless-steel trim; crowning the mantel is Fernand L\u00E9ger's Femme \u00E0 la Toilette. (April 2011)\nInterior designer J. Randall Powers fashioned a chic leaf-green library for the Houston home he shares with investor William L. Caudell. A Biedermeier settee accompanies a John Dickinson plaster table, while a Navajo-inspired rug tops a sisal floor covering. (November 2012)\nDecorator Suzanne Rheinstein and architect Ken Linsteadt referenced the dramatic verdant surroundings of a Northern California home in its dining room. A Gracie chinoiserie wallpaper wraps the intimate space, which is furnished with an 18th-century English table and chairs and a gilt-wood chandelier. (December 2011)\nLuxury-linens matriarch Dede Pratesi custom-mixed the paint colors used on the walls of her 17th-century Tuscan villa. For a lively hallway, she combined an herb-green with olive to contrast the ornately patterned marble floors, which appear throughout the house. (October 2011)\nActress Helen Mirren and director Taylor Hackford filled their New Orleans bungalow with a bounty of local antiques and, in the master bedroom, set them against a bold hunter-green backdrop. \"Green walls create a cool, dark refuge from the unbearably hot summers,\" says Hackford. (April 2007)\nA hand-painted trellis wallpaper by Gracie lines the sunroom of the Richmond, Virginia, home of Helga and Floyd D. Gottwald Jr., which was decorated by Manhattan-based designer Bunny Williams. Painted shell-back chairs surround the 19th-century burled-walnut dining table; potted topiaries add an elegant outdoor accent. (January 2012)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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