Barbara milo ohrbach biography

Just bringing a beautiful old, painted porcelain vase into a room and doing nothing more than setting it upon a table can have the same effect as arranging a bouquet of fresh flowers in the same space. The room is transformed, and you are refreshed by the sight of a pleasing motif on the china, or just by its shape and color.

So says Barbara Milo Ohrbach, a former corporate executive and retailing entrepreneur who now is the best-selling author of 14 books on antiques, gardening, collecting and related subjects.

“It is the loveliness of little things that imparts life to a room, and ceramics are one of the very best examples of this,” she says.

Ohrbach belongs to that worldwide group of people that finds high-impact decorating magic in collecting blue and white dishes, so evident in her books.

“I think blue always looks fresh,” she says.

She even credits the success of her first book, “The Scented Room” (Clarkson N. Potter, $20), published in Barbara milo ohrbach obituary death.