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130 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 10.14 design Architecture creating a garden that would highlight a design philosophy that both incorporates nature inside the home and promotes living outdoors. (Bittners moved into its current showroom downtown in 1961.) When Riddle bought his Highlands apart- ment, the living room had a bank of radiators obstructing the beautiful original windows. After removing the radiators, he remembered a party in Paris, on Avenue Montaigne, where he was taken by the host's foor-to-ceiling shutters. Tey reminded him of a photograph of the private opera singer Maria Callas peering at her public. Riddle realized: "I could have my shutters. Tey would be just right." Riddle admits to loving the idea of paring down his home to the very minimum, and he associates this desire with his years in fashion. "Imagine that you are looking at fashion and design all day," he says. "It just makes you stop and pare things down. I found myself only wearing basic solid colors so that I could have ease in my life. I like having just a few simple pieces where you can fnd great style in small detail. I found myself living the same way — simple and clean." Riddle's aesthetic seems perfect for our busy times. "I see lots of people who fll spaces to fll spaces," he says. "But like a good conversation with a good friend, you need a pause — that wonderful trust you can have in silence with someone you really love, where you can just sit and be quiet together. I feel your home should be that pause, and so many people like to fll that void up with racket. But for me, I think a pause is a really nice, lovely thing. Not every wall needs to have a party and not every corner needs a toy." "I found myself only wearing basic solid colors so that I could have ease in my life. I found myself living the same way — simple and clean," Riddle says.