Emily Eerdsmans does Palm Beach: Kips Bay that is!

Beloved Author, historian, shop keeper, and DESIGNER Emily Eerdmans has participated in this year's Palm Beach Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse! The results are reason enough to go to Florida. 

To quote Emily 'The sitting room imagines if Mrs. Thurston Howell III, known to her friends as "Lovey",  had ever been rescued from Gilligan's Island and returned for the Palm Beach Season.  Here the renowned international hostess and former Queen of the Pitted Prune Bowl would receive her guests in low-key style'.   Is this not the best thing you've ever read, or seen!?

The tented walls (featuring Jim Thompson fabric) soften the space while natural materials tie the room to the tropical setting.  Rare orchards are on display in an immense chinoiserie jardiniere under the windows and framed paintings by Lucinda Oakes finish the scene. 

As if the vintage sofa from the auction of Norman Norell at Sothebys weren't enough, the shell encrusted table steals the show -making this perhaps the most fabulous room of the showhouse? 

Visit this year's showhouse daily, now through March 24 at 3410 North Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach. You won't be disappointed! Information HERE.