Paying tribute and homage to the French Quarter's compelling clash-of-culture imagery of past and present, this highly visual collage reveals a mad hatter's mesmerizing jumble of exquisitely-controlled chaos. Subscribing to the age-old axioms of "excess is best" and "too much is never enough," the style enchants the mind and the eye with a hypnotic blend of African, Parisian, and equestrian-inspired themes and motifs threaded throughout every room. Ravishing, uncanny, and confounding design applications, never before previewed, spill from every page, coupled with astonishing how-to design philosophy and real-life applications. Packing oodles of countless collectibles and curiosities into even the smallest space, the eye-popping style dismisses and defies all preconceived notions and perceptions or predictable, anemic interior decorating ideas. Through a ceiling-to-floor embellishment of exquisite and peculiar accessories, ornamentation, and colors, a mix of opulently cheap to chichi and colossal furnishingsincluding artifacts, antiques, accessories, collectibles, curios, and other fine objects d'artcrowds each room.
TJ Fisher is the author of Hearsay from Heaven to Hades and the coauthor of Orléans Embrace with the Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré. She is a licensed general contractor and member of the American Society of Interior Designers and the Interior Design Society who is also known for her work as a documentary filmmaker, thespian, and writer. Skip Bolen is a commercial and interior design photographer. Formerly with Condé Nast Publications, he is frequently called upon to shoot celebrities and events for wire services. They both live in New Orleans.