Redd Kaihoi LLC

Maximizing the maximal is how Miles Redd made his name. His wild mixes of patterns, colors, periods and moods may threaten sensory overload, yet they somehow scale the heights of chic. By his standards, this sumptuous living room in an Upstate New York house ranks as almost subdued. According to Redd, he and partner David Kaihoi wanted to create a kind of “madcap, high-style English-country-house feel, but for the twenty-first century,” with references to the pagoda-style canopied daybeds in the sitting room of the great Jacobean manor Stanway House, the chintz slipcovers in the library of stately Althorp and the chocolate-brown lacquer walls in the library Billy Baldwin designed for the Waldorf Towers apartment of Cole Porter. The pièce de résistance is the red-leather Jacques Adnet bed. It once belonged to interior designer Thomas Britt — another tastemaker who believed emphatically in the decorative power of “more!”