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December 2011

Suzanne Rheinstein was born and raised in the deeply nostalgic city of New Orleans, but she’s spent the past 30 years or so in perpetually forward-looking Los Angeles. Beginning with the decorations of her Georgian-style house in L.A.’s Hancock Park, the designer has earned a reputation for mixing neoclassical genres in an unfussy way. (The title of her recent book, At Home: A Style for Today with Things from the Past, seems apt given her personal history.) There’s nothing hidebound about her modus operandi or her modus vivendi – as a project for a couple in Marin County, California amply demonstrates.