{"id":3193,"date":"2025-02-08T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/amy-lau-interior-designer-and-a-founder-of-design-miami-dies-at-56\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:30:33","slug":"amy-lau-interior-designer-and-a-founder-of-design-miami-dies-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/amy-lau-interior-designer-and-a-founder-of-design-miami-dies-at-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Lau, Interior Designer and a Founder of Design Miami, Dies at 56"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Amy Lau, a New York interior designer and a founder of the annual Design Miami fair, whose vernacular was the saturated colors of the American Southwest and whose deep knowledge of modernist objects was the foundation of her work, died on Jan. 17 in Scottsdale, Ariz. She was 56.<\/p>\n

The cause was cancer, her family said.<\/p>\n

Ms. Lau\u2019s success did not rest on an ability to parse paint colors and match furniture and rugs (although of course she could do both things). Rather, it was her consummate talent for choosing important pieces \u2014 for example, a sofa designed by Vladimir Kagan, a sculpture by Anish Kapoor, a bronze work by the furniture sculptor Silas Seandel \u2014 and crafting warm, striking interiors around them. Those selections were the raison d\u2019\u00eatre, not the afterthought.<\/p>\n

\u201cDesigners all begin from some vantage point, and Amy\u2019s was her knowledge of midcentury modern,\u201d Amanda Nisbet, an interior designer in New York and Palm Beach, said in an interview. \u201cBut she was also a real supporter of current artists and artisans, and sought out the work of the ones she thought were worthy of her clients\u2019 money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n