Tribute To Classic All-American Interiors

Interior designer and author Mark D. Sikes is back with a tribute to classic all-american interiors in his inspiring new tome more beautiful

- Mark D. Sikes

No matter where you look, beauty is everywhere. It manifests itself in the simplest things: A smile. A neatly made bed. Dahlias popping like fireworks in the late summer. Ivory embroidered curtains dancing unfettered in the breeze.

I learned that important lesson growing up in the South and the Midwest [of the United States of America], the son of a preacher and a preacher’s wife. Both of my parents appreciate pretty things and fostered that interest in me early on. I remember going to the drugstore with my mother and heading straight for the magazine aisle. It was the start of a lifelong obsession with beauty.