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Interior Designer Randall A. Ridless
Randall A. Ridless, a talented interior designer who was instrumental in bringing stores such as I. Magnin, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman into the modern era by reconceiving many of their selling floors and setting prototypes, died Friday morning at his Manhattan home. Ridless, who was 49, suffered from cancer.
Ridless also created Burberry's London flagship, which set the mold for several international flagships, as well as Temple St. Clair jewelry stores and Iridesse pearl stores for Tiffany & Co.
Since 1999, Ridless operated his own New York-based interior design consulting firm, but spent most of his 25-year career at leading retail corporations, first at Bloomingdale's as a designer for the 59th Street flagship's model rooms. He later joined R.H. Macy & Co. as vice president of store design and planning, and for the I. Magnin division created prototype stores. At Macy's, he created the Corner Shop Antique Galleries, conceiving rooms in collaboration with...