“Famed interior designer Stephen Shadley certainly had a circuitous route to his ultimate career. He has always been interested in art and design, and his early jobs included painting sets at 20th Century Fox and working with the traveling show Disney on Parade. His first decorating job was actually a restaurant: the buzzy hangout Camelback and Central in New York.

But it was his friendship with Diane Keaton (he and the actor have been close since the ’70s) that first set the stage for the artist to fully embrace his calling as an interior designer. Keaton enlisted Shadley’s help to decorate a home in Sneden’s Landing (now known as Palisades), New York; a year later, it was featured in House & Garden, officially launching him as a designer to watch.”