"Deliberately undone florals, moody tabletop arrangements, warm splashes of natural light-interior stylist Colin King's lived-in flourishes have become fixtures in design photography. Initially from Ohio and trained as a dancer in New York, King, who has styled over 60 projects for AD, brings an organic, almost choreographed sensibility to his shoots. Everything he touches "is with gentle hands and a sunny, collaborative disposition," says AD's Global Visuals Director Michael Shome."
""These rooms are not just iconic-they are companions, teachers," he wrote. "They found me when I needed to remember what beauty feels like, not just what it looks like. I don't return to them for reference. I return to them the way you return to a favorite sentence in a book, just to feel it again.""
"Jacques Grange speaks in a language I've always wanted to learn. I remember seeing this Paris apartment project early in my career, when I was still trying to understand how comfort could coexist with discipline. This apartment doesn't shout "Paris"-it murmurs it. You feel the tension between centuries and styles, but somehow nothing feels like a fight. The staircases wind like thought, a quiet labyrinth. Those grids of sycamo"
Colin King applies a dancer's sense of movement to interior styling, favoring lived-in, choreographed flourishes like deliberately undone florals, moody tabletop arrangements, and warm natural light. King trained in New York as a dancer and grew up in Ohio; he has styled over 60 projects for Architectural Digest. He writes about objects and spaces, publishes on Substack, and authored Arranging Things. His approach privileges quiet, restrained compositions that let materiality and memory surface. King treats rooms as companions and teachers, returning to them for emotional resonance rather than practical reference.
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