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A Pine Plains project by Ariel Okin Interiors, featured in the designer's new book Photo: Julie Leffell; Styling: Anthony Amiano

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Lena Dunham’s Designer Debuts Her First Book

The Happy Home is out now from Rizzoli.

In Lena Dunham’s words, designer Ariel Okin ’s work is the opposite of “everything we’ve come to expect from interiors of the internet.” It’s true: Squiggles, design grails, and candles shaped like crudités don’t appear in Okin’s first tome, The Happy Home (out now from Rizzoli). Instead, you’ll find the AD PRO Directory designer’s layered, large-scale printed, kid-friendly spaces , all of which are infused with bold swaths of color and a tree-house-like airiness.…