Article: My mother's living room.

Each of the fifteen houses she has occupied in the last twenty years was decorated in collaboration with her favorite designer. This renowned California personality not only channels and shapes her "unconventional" vision but also functions as her confidant, an architectural alter ego with whom she likes to think that she performs an activity as "creative...as singing or acting." In the course of what she describes as a kind of artistic performance, they work in tandem to implement "crazy" ideas, push "limits," and take "risks," thus avoiding the dreary monotony of suburban split-levels and ranch houses whose unadventurous styles of interior decoration she repudiates as ...

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