HYLAND
It takes an exceptional capacity for discernment to
orchestrate a successful interior using, almost exclusively,
furniture and art from the 1960s onward. Decoratively
speaking, the inventions of our own age (I speak to readers
over fifty) up to the present are difficult, Design with a
capital "D," often so streamlined they seem to have scant
regard for comfort. Egyptian-born designer and collector
Noha Hassan possesses just such a discriminating
eye, distilling the best furniture and art of the last fifty
years into interiors that sometimes appear paradoxically
cozy. Perhaps an inspired outsider—both younger and
foreign born—is better placed to interpret American
and European design trends of this thorny time span.
