ichael Taylor Designs, Inc. was launched in 1985 by Michael Taylor and Paul Weaver to market the high-end residential furniture Taylor had designed or collected. Taylor's interior design work is recognized and renowned worldwide and has been extensively published.

Over the last 45 years Michael Taylor has come to be synonymous with elegance, quality, and sophistication. The Company's carefully edited lines of furniture and accessories reflect a contemporary sensibility while never losing sight of their traditional heritage.

Many influential decorators have worked in a signature style, but few contributed as many enduring influential furnishings to the design market as did Michael Taylor. His interiors appeared in every major magazine from the beginning of his career in the 1950's to, quite literally, the end. Michael was the designer's designer. His sense of scale was wonderment unequalled. He deplored the copyists - those who fed on his originality.

Consistently denouncing the cluttered and pretentious, he had a simple ethos: when you take something out, you must increase the size of what's left. The inventor of what has come to be known as the California Look, he became famous for white-walled, light-filled rooms with boldly over scaled furniture and decorative accessories. Taylor fans recognize his work to be pure and simple but by no means plain - a combination of rusticity and glamour.

More than a decade after his death, Taylor's reputation as an innovator in the world of home design glows undiminished. " You can look at a picture of a room he designed in 1953, and it still looks wonderful today", notes New York designer Albert Hadley.

Paul J. Weaver, former Vice President of McGuire and an expert in marketing, collaborated with Taylor to set the cornerstone of a collection meticulously edited for today's consumer at the top. Weaver, a highly visible spokesman for the company, has succeeded in identifying and further establishing the work upon which Taylor's claim of importance and legacy are founded. "In a market where the signature of an established tastemaker wields considerable influence", says Weaver, "Michael Taylor's name speaks to the most discerning consumers in the market - the ones for whom the authority of quality, confidence, and style matter most".

Michael Taylor is one of the most revered designers of the Twentieth Century.