Sean Scherer's Kabinett & Kammer: Creating Authentic Interiors Scherer Sean

Interior designer, artist, and collector Sean Scherer shares his secrets about applying the principles of two-dimensional art to home designSean Scherer's Kabinett & Kammer is equally a celebration and a guide to both collecting and showing how lively design can integrate disparate objects into beautifully layered ensembles. The effect is a supercharged nod to American Gothic heightened by Scherer's sophisticated palette and sense of proportion. Scherer's interiors feature vintage display cabinets housing discarded collections of whittled songbirds, stunning 19th-century maps and school teaching aids, ferns in cast-iron planters, and photomurals.

Though styles fluctuate and tastes are unique, the principles of design are immutable, and good design is good Each photograph by William Abranowicz is a lesson on color and texture, focal points, and room size.