Antiques dealer, furniture and fabric designer, retailer, author, decorator… Even with a long and varied résumé, Rose Tarlow’s interior design philosophy is succinct: “Fresh, clean, contemporary furniture and art mixed with wonderful old pieces and a very definite edge of eccentricity.” Tarlow’s design career started small, with the opening of her shop, Rose Tarlow Antiques, in 1975. Today her Los Angeles based company, Rose Tarlow – Melrose House, is renowned for its reproduction or, in many cases, adaptation of antiques, as well as its more modern designs.

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As with all of her endeavors, Tarlow takes on interior design projects, which include work for David Geffen and Eli Broad, with much forethought. She is driven not only by her sharp eye but also by her sense that homes are deeply personal.

Rooms “may be perfectly designed, yet if they fail to reflect the personalities of the people who live in them, the very essence of intimacy is missing, and this absence is disturbingly visible.” Tarlow writes in her 2001 book, The Private House.

“Taste is a matter of opinion, and is seeking constantly to define itself.” Rose Tarlowsays.

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