Rose Tarlow, 80, interior designer: “Inside Design” by Michael Greer (1962)Back when I was a student at New York’s School of Interior Design, I attended lectures by prominent talents of the day, including the design maestro Michael Greer, who helped decorate rooms in the White House during the [Dwight D.] Eisenhower and [John F.] Kennedy administrations. Greer’s lectures were my favorite — he kept all of us enthralled with his outlandish dictates. Although these days “Inside Design” may be considered rather old-fashioned, it still makes me smile. Mackintosh is one of our heroes, an architect but also an interior designer and watercolorist who oscillated between the world stage and the tight-knit creative community of Glasgow. It can’t be comfortable, but why bother with comfort when you’re designing a chair so striking?

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Persons: Rose Tarlow, Michael Greer, Dwight D, Eisenhower, John F, Kennedy, Greer’s, Ruby Kean, “ Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Filippo Alison, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s, Lisa, Jones, Mackintosh, watercolorist, there’s Organizations: New York’s School of Interior, eBay Locations: Scottish, London, New York, Glasgow