Barclay Butera Tapped to Redecorate Room at Hearst Castle

Newport Beach's Barclay Butera receives noble appointment:

The designer is redecorating a room at Hearst Castle; the first interior design at the estate since Hearst left in 1947.


Newport Beach designer Barclay Butera, featured as one of OC METRO’s Creative Geniuses this month, has pulled off another historic décor coup: he will be designing the Hearst Castle Overnight showcase room at the mythic estate in San Simeon. This will be the first time a room of the property has been redesigned since Hearst left the estate in 1947.

Butera will create a contemporary interior inspired by the design collaboration of famed architect Julia Morgan and William Randolph Hearst. This is the first interior design of a room at Hearst Castle since Mr. Hearst left the estate in 1947.

The room is being created to accommodate the overnight stay at the castle won in a benefit auction sponsored by Friends of Hearst Castle in 2008, honoring the 50th anniversary of public access to the property.

The winning weekend includes a swim in the Neptune Pool for the winning couple and eight guests, in addition to tennis, dinner on the terrace, a garden stroll and an after dinner movie in the castle theater. Afterward, the couple will spend the night in the Butera-decorated Hearst Castle Overnight room overlooking the Pacific.

The new décor will feature contemporary reproductions and interpretative designs by Hearst Castle Collection licensees whose home furnishing designs bring new awareness to the depth and importance of Mr. Hearst's collections, while contributing significantly to Hearst Castle's preservation.

Butera's knowledge and reverence for old Hollywood architecture and décor garnered him this enviable project. Having owned or decorated former homes of Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Betty Davis, Butera created redesigns that were a visual homage to the history and style of a bygone era.

Proceeds from Hearst Castle Collection licensed designs benefit art preservation and education at the Castle. The design of the Hearst Castle Overnight bedroom is being accomplished through the generous contributions of: Architectural Detail Group, Barclay Butera Home, Castilian, Habersham, Hearst Castle Collection Design, Ambience by Minka Group, Pindler & Pindler, Taracea, Tilevera, Jeff Margolin and Susan Ward Designs

Article courtesy of OC Metro

By Susan Belknapp

Published: September 10, 2009

Thanks to everythingleb for her "Designer Crush: Barclay Butera" post on fabrics, furniture and more!!
"I'm totally crushing over Barclay Butera and all he has his name on right now. Frist his book sold me, then I saw his furniture line and now his fabric line at Kravet.To me you can do no wrong using an animal print, and Barclay does it with perfection! Along with other patterns and textures obviously, just take a look at some of his great fabrics:

His line of furniture, which you can see more on his site, is amazing. Of course I love this first sofa for its classic lines and pretty arms:

But this leather tufted sofa is what really makes me swoon!! The buttery soft leather, the dark brown color, the nailhead detail, the tufting, AND the fact that the BF and I would both 100% agree to a sofa like this makes it top on my list..."

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What Inspires Barclay Butera?

from Kravet [INSPIRED.talk]
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I have a passion for fine living, and I am inspired by wherever life takes me. Furnishings don’t make a home; life does. Lifestyle design is a way of carefully placing selected elements together so a room or a home feels warm, comfortable, and inviting.

When creating lifestyle design, my decisions depend on the personality of my clients—their dreams and their aspirations. I manifest the lifestyle by incorporating my elements of design with those of the client to create a unique environment down to the fine details of upholstery and accessories.

I love it when a house feels finished and lived in, with many layers of color and texture. Every choice I make as a designer translates design essentials, including wall furnishings, flooring, textiles, case goods, and furnishings, into elements of living, to evoke an emotional environment.

I never limit myself to one particular category or style. Design is always dependent upon location, tradition, and personal preferences. From antique clocks to clean modern hurricanes, I use collections to help give an interior the flavor of a particular period and style.

What is your favorite lifestyle design?

The Designer Insider on TUFTS; Barclay Butera for Kravet

Barclay Butera is a unique designer that is inspired by fashion and travel. He has partnered with Kravet to bring you his first collection of fabrics and rugs sold through their showroom. These designs shown are not fabric but beautiful rug designs from his new collection! The rugs are available in 12 standard sizes and are available in New Zealand worsted wool, all viscose, wool and viscose blend. You can order the rugs in the hand tufted style, Indo or Sino.

Garden Leaf
Gentleman's Houndstooth

Desert Damask

Mountain Plaid

Mountain Tiger

Urban StripeAsian Bamboo

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Arren Williams: Five Minutes With Barclay Butera

Top notch US interior designer Barclay Butera is on a roll. Late last year he debuted a swanky design book with Assouline (top), and then recently launched a fabric and carpet collection with Kravet that riffs of the book's central style themes of City, Town & Country, Beach and Mountain. Classic Butera style can be pegged as rich and layered yet still casual, with a trademark combo of fabrics, patterns and texture. Just take a look above at his beach house, with its trad blue-and-white and not so trad leopard, and you'll see this is a man who isn't afraid to mix things up. To see more of his interiors, and to check out that new collection, click here to watch a YouTube video narrated by Butera; it's an inspiring 5 minute peek into a deliciously glam world. The Barclay Butera collection is available through the design trade at Kravet, and his book; Barclay Butera Living in Style, can be found at Indigo.
(Photo: Cover image. Credit: Assouline. Photo: Barclay Butera interior. Credit: James Carriere. Via Traditional Home)

The work of Arren Williams, a freelance stylist, editor and trend reporter, can be seen regularly in Flare and Canada's top décor mags and also on Citytv's CityLine. Expect a roundup of fabulous finds from the style world every few days as he brings his eye for detail to Post Homes. See his blog here. -->

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Barclay Butera for Kravet Collections

Products shown: Panel Fabric: 9662-51; Fabric on Pillows, L-R: 30398-5, trim T30317-55; Somerset-15 with fabric trimming 27796-5; Dressur-51; Bolster pillow: 30380-516; Carpet: TUFTS Design by Barclay Butera, Marine Stripe/C

Barclay Butera Portraits by Artist Ray Turner

BARCLAY BUTERA CHOSEN BY RENOWNED ARTIST RAY TURNER AS PART OF A SELECT GROUP IN PORTRAITURE SERIES

TOURING “POPULATION” EXHIBITION LAUNCHES IN SANTA FE, TRAVELS TO PASADENA, SAN FRANCISCO AND EUROPE

LOS ANGELES, CA (August, 2009) – National lifestyle designer Barclay Butera was selected a few months ago by artist and friend Ray Turner to be one of his portraiture subjects for the artist’s “Population” show, which opens in Santa Fe, NM, on August 7th at the Skotia Gallery. The 12”x12” paintings portray the designer in Turner’s signature bold style. Two paintings of Butera—Turner chose only a few subjects to capture twice--will be part of 125-150 portraits shown. Skotia Gallery is “Population’s” first stop in a traveling installation that will subsequently be exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (Oct. 2009 – Jan. 2010), in San Francisco at the Toomey-Tourell Gallery in January 2010, then on to Beverly Hills and Europe. The show will have an accompanying 12”x12” hardcover book, reflecting the exact size of each likeness, and with essays by Rick Gilberts, James Scarborough, and Roberta Carasso, PhD.

“In doing business with Barclay, we immediately became friends and I knew I wanted to include him in the series,” muses Turner. “I find him to be one of the complex human beings that many of us are and that I seek out, and I painted toward the soul in him that I perceive…a snap shot that tells part of his story. I have painted a few people more than once out of interest in capturing a different facet of their personality. Barclay is one of these, and I consider him both friend and subject.”

Painted on panel and glass, each portrait in the series evinces a slightly different approach by the artist, while inheriting the same topographical quality seen in the brooding, epic landscapes he is known for. A prescient interpreter, he is able to capture his sitters during “privileged instants” with skill and intimacy, using impasto (a la German Fauves and Expressionists), and violent color and exaggerated features, which recall influences as Vincent Van Gogh and Francis Bacon.

“I am very honored that Ray asked me to be one of his subjects,” says Butera, CEO and President of Barclay Butera Inc. “I’m a big fan of his, and often recommend his work to clients. The layering of colors and strokes he delivers moves me and appeals to my own sense of depth in layering and texture. I also love that there are two different portraits—one being more light and ‘real’ to my eyes, and the other more dark with exaggerated features. There’s also a bit of a Warhol flavor to this exhibition concept, which I enjoy.”


ABOUT BARCLAY BUTERA
Barclay Butera, Inc. is based in Newport Beach, CA, and entails the Barclay Butera collection showrooms in Newport Beach and Los Angeles, CA, and Park City, UT. Barclay Butera Home, Inc. products (http://www.barclaybuterahome.com/) are distributed through over 300 showrooms, his own collection showrooms, and To the Trade nationwide. Butera designs and manufactures his bench made upholstery products in Los Angeles, CA. The book Living In Style (Assouline, 2008) presents a collection of Butera’s work since 2003, divided into five lifestyle themes: Beach, City, Desert, Mountain, and Town & Country. The designer’s first line of textiles and trims for Kravet Collections is available now, also presented through four of his lifestyle themes. Please visit www.barclaybutera.com/media for a full introduction.

ABOUT RAY TURNER
Born in California in 1958, Turner attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where he ultimately taught. Turner has progressively crafted a versatile and acclaimed body of work of growing scope and importance. Turner is included in many publications including American Art Collector, Art Times, and Artweek magazine. Turner's work is exhibited, in solo and group shows, in New York, California, and New Mexico in the United States, and Internationally in Berlin and Montreal. (http://www.rayturnerart.com/)