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Pulling freely from European, American, and Asian influences, Markham Roberts has earned a reputation for synthesizing distinctively daring combinations of color, pattern, and style. The Manhattan-based designer has a knack for mixing these seemingly disparate elements into welcoming, assured compositions—sprucing up a rustic mountain lodge with elegant tufted armchairs and roll-arm sofas, for instance, or enlivening a clubby paneled library with attention-grabbing contemporary art. The designer’s versatility is reflected in his list of projects in progress: modernist ski chalets in Montana, a former Rockefeller estate in Connecticut, a penthouse at New York’s Carlyle hotel, and his own 19th-century Second Empire house in the Hudson Valley. His first book, Decorating: The Way I See It (The Vendome Press), is due out next fall. markhamrobertom

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