Do you remember your mother or father saying to you "If all of your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too"" Perhaps you have said that to your own children. It seems to be the standard parental retort to "but all my friends did it."

Design by Mark D. Sikes
I'm sure that many of you remember this photo. It was taken by Lonny for the feature that they did on Mark back in 2012. This was the black bedroom everyone loved, and the room that inspired me to paint my old bedroom black. During the redecoration of his house, he had this room swathed in Pierre Frey tree of life fabric.
Design by Mark D. Sikes 
The table and art was replaced by this large Chinoiserie Wedding Cabinet, but many people never forgot the graphic black and white art that was hanging there before the redo. The piece was a Paule Marrot print of original fabric designed by the artist, which you can still purchase through Natural Curiousities here for about $3,000. For those of you unfamiliar, Marrot was a Parisian textile designer whose fabrics gained wide popularity in the 1950s.   Shortly after we learned that Mark was switching up things in his house, this photo showed up:
Paloma Contreras of La Dolce Vita Blog
Houston based designer and blogger Paloma Contreras, is very vocal about her friendship with Mark and how he has served as a mentor to her. She had a Marrot, the same as Mark's, over her sofa for her feature in Domino Magazine. 
Design by Jonathan Adl...