Annie Selke

When Annie Selke was a little girl, she coveted a deluxe box of crayons. She didn’t get it, and was forced to create her own wide-ranging and sophisticated color palettes. In high school, she developed an odd-couple love affair with the Colefax and Fowler wallpaper in her dorm at Miss Porter’s School, which sparked a vintage-fabric-collecting addiction. Throw in a some sewing lessons and art history courses, and a design career was born.

A graduate of the University of Vermont and the Fashion Institute of Technology, Annie worked in PR, copywriting, merchandising, and product development for the likes of Saks Fifth Avenue, Ferragamo, Conran’s, and the Museum of American Folk Art. She is the founder of the widely acclaimed home textiles companies Pine Cone Hill and Dash & Albert Rug Company. Fresh American Spaces is Annie’s first book, and in both the book and on her blog, freshamerican.com, she is delighted to help readers answer the timely question “What’s your Fresh American style?”