Most people go on trips and bring back souvenirs. Suzanne Kasler comes home with ideas. “I love flea markets, especially spotting a random piece of furniture that could be translated for a room today,” says the Atlanta-based AD100 interior designer, whose latest range of home furnishings for Hickory Chair is born from a deep dive into some of her favorite flea markets, notably Paris’s sprawling Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen. As for her use of the word random, the designer cautions that it doesn’t mean thoughtless.

“To me, random means a mix, with stained-wood pieces, overscale sofas, a curious little chair,” Kasler explains, noting that her Hickory Chair collection has been christened The Paris Collection for that very reason. Its eclectic, easygoing spirit references the chic if improvisational decors that have been concocted by French aesthetic movers and shakers she admires, creative types who have eschewed formulaic, follow-the-leader rooms in favor of the quirky, the wonderful, and the individualistic. That, she points out, is how many homeowners on this side of the Atlantic are decorating today.

“People want furniture with style,” says the author of the September-release book Suzanne Kasler: Sophisticated Simplicity (Rizzoli), “but they also want to pick and choose to make a decor that’s their own.”

In one flea-market booth in Paris, Kasler spotted a vintage parchment-covered cabinet with funky horn-shaped feet. By the time her reinterpretation of it emerged from Hickory Chair’s workshops, it had been reduced in height and stretched in width to become a sideboard that stands on tapered feet, an edit that gives the storage unit a bit of Jean-Michel Frank chic. The collection’s dozens of other desirables include an unusual high-backed bench in Sweden’s Gustavian style that delighted Hickory Chair’s woodworkers, a pair of arguably 1960s gondola-back game chairs, and a cocktail table with Arts and Crafts attitude.

“Everything in The Paris Collection has a story,” Kasler explains. Best of all, she points out, everything works with the story you’re already creating. hickorychairom ; suzannekaslerom