1984 Kips Bay Showhouse
"Buatta". Such is the influence of decorator Mario Buatta
in the decorative narrative of America over the last four
decades, that he is afforded by the design community
the only title of nobility that this writer has been able
to uncover during the last several hundred years of
decoration history, "the Prince of chintz."
Drawing from a venerable design canon, meshing
English and American sensibilities with Continental
embellishments, New York-born Buatta has shaped the
classic American interior, all along forming a singular point
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