About Me

Antonia Hutt clearly remembers the day when, at age thirteen, she walked into the Norman Foster-designed Sainsbury Centre in England's East Anglia, one of the family's regular architecture-viewing trips led by her historian father. "All the hair on my arms stood on end," Hutt remembers. "It was a sort of awakening, being moved by the light and the form that was around me. I'd never had that before. I strive to do that in my work."

London-born and Los Angeles-based, Hutt is a designer whose work is at once sumptuous and pristine, at least partly the result of a near mania for all manner of design. Degrees in jewelry making and interior design, plus years spent buying antiques abroad before running her own antiques store in L.A., inform her work. So does having grown up in a house with "crazy, intellectual parents, with books everywhere." Hutt laughs at her reaction against the rooms of her childhood. "I can think of nothing worse for my mother (an economist) than that I became a decorator."

"I think it was Versace who said 'The only true style is your own.' I really like that," says Hutt. She considers it her job to draw out who her clients are and how they want to express themselves. "That's the fun," she says, "Otherwise every place would look the same."

Antonia Hutt & Associates
755 North Kilkea Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90046
323-782-4949
www.antoniahutt.com

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Feb 24, 2006

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