Kitchens Aren’t Confidential for Caren Rideau
Santa Barbara Vintner/Los Angeles Designer’s Book Combines Food & Wine with Interior Design
A major milestone in the career of interior designers is collecting their passions and visions into a coffee table–style book, which prospective clients as well as everyday home-style seekers can peruse for ideas and inspiration. When Caren Rideau reached that point, the direction she wanted to take was quite obvious.
“So many of my clients would say, ‘I hear you’re in the wine business,’” explains Rideau, the Los Angeles–based designer who co-owns the Santa Ynez Valley–based brand Tierra y Vino with her partner, the veteran winemaker Andres Ibarra. “It just seemed logical to create a book around kitchen design, life in the vineyard, and entertaining, which really is my life.”
The outcome, Caren Rideau: Kitchen Designer, Vintner, Entertaining at Home, does just that, employing the clean photography of Meghan Beierle-O’Brien, styling of Char Hatch Langos, and publishing power of Pointed Leaf Press to weave those elements into a beautiful whole. The core of the 240-page book is case studies of specific kitchens that Rideau created, but she also pens short entries on food and wine pairing, her passion for Mexican pottery, and her strategy for bringing Mediterranean colors into her projects.
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