How do you turn a buttoned-up, formal estate into a weekend-friendly, barefoot-casual escape? That’s the challenge Boston-based interior designer Frank Roop faced with an upstate New York home, built ...

Sign up to get the best of Boston, every day. A touch of suede trim, reams of turquoise velvet, glimmers of mother-of-pearl. No, we’re not inside a style maven’s ...

Boston interior designer Frank Roop came to the world of home decor through the circuitous and somewhat unlikely path of men’s fashion. Despite the change in vocation, Roop never fully managed to ...

Interior designer Frank Roop (above) signed copies of his book “The New Bespoke” at Frette at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Some of the proceeds from the signing benefited the School of the MFA.

Interior designer Frank Roop talks to a fan at his book signing at Frette fine linens and home decor at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Tuesday. (Brian Feulner for the Boston Globe) By Legacy User June 6, ...