Patrick Cline
If it was up to Alison Chemla, the new salon for her jewelry brand Alison Lou, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, would have had minimalist white walls with furniture to match the better to show off her whimsical, colorful gems. But when the maximalist interior designer Sasha Bikoff is your best friend, quiet understatement is not an option.
“Sasha loves jewelry, and she is very
extra
above at right), who met the
ELLE DecorA-List designer when they were teenagers growing up in New York. “When she said, ‘Let’s do gold wallpaper,’ I told her she was insane and I wouldn’t do it. But she slowly pushed me. Now I have gold walls and her Disco Dots rug.