Rose Tarlow () is an interior designer, furniture and textile designer, and author based in Los Angeles, California. She is known for having designed elegant residences for a small number of notable clients. She is the author of Private House, a memoir of her interior design activities, first published in 2001.
Life Tarlow graduated from Emerson College in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science in Theater Arts.Emerson College Yearbook, 1960, Rose Khedouri. She married in 1961,Manhattan Marriage License #1905 (1961). after which she attended classes at the New York School of Interior Design and the Parsons School of Design, and established an interior design shop in Englewood, New Jersey.Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," The New York Times, December 6, 2001."Decorating: Rose Tarlow Sees Beauty," Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1994. In 1971, having divorced and moved to California, she married the lawyer Barry Tarlow (1939–2021).California Marriage Index, 1971, Rose Khedouri. She established Rose K. Tarlow Antiques. Ltd. in 1974, and Rose Tarlow Melrose House in 1981.California Secretary of State, Business Search
Interior design Tarlow is known for creating rooms with highly refined wood, plaster, and stone finishes, furnished with antiques (typically English, French, and East Asian), and infused with a personal blend of minimalism and romanticism. In her own house in Bel Air, she clad her dining room floor with reclaimed stone from France, installed wide wood floor boards made from 17th-century French oak in her living room, and added ceiling beams throughout, taken from an 11th-century church in Kent, England. Like much of her work, the house has a romantic character: in 1994, the writer Susan Orlean opined that "the place had the rugged, sunny, otherworldly ambience of a California mission."Susan Orlean, "This is Perfect," The New Yorker, April 18, 1994, page 56. In 2001, the architecture critic Julie V. Iovine wrote of Tarlow's passion for creating "rooms of haunting luxury packed with enough rarities and idiosyncratic touches to upstage a Zeffirelli opera set."Julie V. Iovine, "Perfect Taste And a Client List To Prove It," The New York Times, December 6, 2001. In 2004, the editor Marian McEvoy wrote in Veranda magazine that Tarlow, Albert Hadley, Jacques Grange, Michael Taylor, Renzo Mongiardino, and John Stefanidis, were six interior designers who had an "enormous impact" on "the design world."Marian McEvoy, "Observations on Designers," Veranda, May–June 2004.
Representative projects Rose Tarlow Apartment, Belgrave Square, London (interior design, completed 1988, with Livio Cumbo, architect).Elizabeth Lambert, "On Belgrave Square," Architectural Digest, March 1989. Rose Tarlow Residence, Bel Air, California (interior design, completed 1990, with Larry Totah, architect).Michael Webb, "California Pastoral," Architectural Digest, June 1991. Barbara Walters Residence, Bel Air, California (interior design, completed ca 1990)."Decorating: Rose Tarlow Sees Beauty," Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1994. Eli and Edythe Broad Residence, Brentwood, California (interior design, completed 1992, with Frank Gehry, architect and Langdon & Wilson Architects).Mayer Rus, "Brentwood Estate with a Museum-worthy Art Collection," Architectural Digest, August 2015. David Geffen Residence, Beverly Hills, California (interior design, completed ca 1995, with Deborah Nevins, landscape design).Susan Orlean, "This is Perfect," The New Yorker, April 18, 1994, page 52.Anne Raver, "The Sage of Luxury Landscapes," The New York Times, October 2, 2004. Eddie Lampert Residence, Greenwich, Connecticut (interior design, completed 2001, with Michael Dwyer, architect).Department of Buildings, Greenwich, Connecticut. Sunshine Ranch, Aspen, Colorado (interior design, completed 2016, with Arthur Chabon, architect).Norman Kolpas, "A Back-road Masterpiece in Horse Country," Colorado Homes and Lifestyles, August 2016.
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