Tuesday – Personalities # 6 & # 7 – Annie Kelly and Tim Street Porter. Tea–time at the Royalton hotel with totally bi-coastal, author and interior decorator, Annie Kelly and renowned photographer Tim Street-Porter. The busy couple live between L.A. and Connecticut. Besides her interior decorating, Annie writes, not only books, but also has a design book review column on 1st Dibs.com called Required Reading. 1st Dibs.com started in Paris at the Marche Aux Puce and is visited by 800,000 people each month, it also sells furniture. Annie is the editor-in-chief of the New York Observer Home magazine which comes out twice a year. Look out for the spring issue next April. Annie’s latest book is already in its third printing, it’s called Rooms to Inspire. Tim Street-Porter needs no introduction, he is famous for his beautiful photographs of interiors and architecture. His next book, with Annie, called Casa San Miguel will be out in spring 2008. The decorating book is about the town in Mexico which is particularly chic. He is currently working on a big glamorous book, with the working title of, Los Angeles Modernism, which is about all the great twentieth century residential modernist architects who worked there, it will be published by Rizzoli and will be out for Christmas 2008.
