Brian Gassel, courtesy of Tavistock Group
Living room of St. Regis residence (plan on previous page).
a picture reflecting the best of their times. There are
rules that have to be followed. Hand drawings should
always be the starting point of any interior project. A
good designer doesn't feel the space until they draw
it on paper to scale. A great decorator can draw it out
and allow his or her clients to feel the room through
those drawings. Therefore there are "Topol's Ten" rules,
presented here, that we live by at our office. I am usually
taken aback when I am forced to watch decorators and
designers add furniture to a space only to remove it and
do it all over again, repeatedly, without applying these
simple rules (or ones similar).
HYLAND
