Design Styles Defined: Midcentury

Design Styles Defined: Midcentury

Aug 17, 2017

It’s the late 1950’s, and you’re invited to a dinner party at a friend’s house. As you walk through the front door and make your way to the dining room, you glance briefly into the living room and… What does the sofa look like? If...
Design Styles Defined: Traditional

Design Styles Defined: Traditional

May 3, 2017

There’s a reason why some things never go out of style – they’re classic. Take Debussy’s Claire De Lune, or Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, for example. The former was composed over a hundred years ago, and the latter was painted half...
Design Styles Defined: Putting Your Style into Words

Design Styles Defined: Putting Your Style into Words

Oct 13, 2016

We’ve all been there. You’re in the middle of a conversation, and a friend asks you to describe an experience that’s unfamiliar to them. Maybe it’s a a foreign city you recently explored, or a delicious meal full of new flavors. You...
Tenderly, The Flower Chair

Tenderly, The Flower Chair

Feb 25, 2011

The Chair as an intimate journey,from the nucleus of the home toward far-off destinations.Like a light, free flying carpet.A heart, a leaf, a flower, opening up majestic to let you in.Carnal, yet bizarrely infantile, sumptuous but rested and secret.A wonderful charm:...
Chaps My Hide

Chaps My Hide

Feb 11, 2011

The add for the Kyle Bunting company says “The extraordinary in hide” and I heartily agree.  Kyle Bunting creates amazing rugs, wallcoverings, upholstery and furniture out of hides.  I’m marveling at all of the creative applications they...
Going to Market?

Going to Market?

Jan 18, 2011

I won’t be heading down to the winter market in Las Vegas next week since I know I have to go in the summer.  I am also planning to attend KBIS in Vegas in April.  However I took a look and the style file on their website just to see what trends are...