Originally from Bountiful, Utah, interior designer Sue Balmforth came decades ago to Venice, California where she moved into a large artist's loft on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Having begun her acquisition of the "beautiful" from the age of 13, she now had the space to grow. And grow she did until her studio-turned-shop began to burst with an astounding, no BOUNTIFUL collection of antiques—some flawless, but most filled with the charm of what I call "the aesthetics of decay."
Tables and chairs with patinas of chipped paint—very much in the spirit of "shabby chic." Crystal chandeliers decked out in white Christmas ornaments or bouquets of flowers. And glass cake platters with bell jar tops—thousands of them in a wide variety of colors and shapes, stacked one on top of the other— crowd her shop, aptly named "Bountiful."
She has decorated the homes of the rich and famous. I'm including a couple of shots I downloaded directly from her website:
Pamela Anderson's home
and Whoopi Goldberg's home. The rest of the shots in this article are my own as I tried in two dimensions to capture the sensation of weaving my way around cake plates, bowls of seashells sold by the shovel full, and ducked underneath chairs and lights hanging from the ceilings.
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