By Holly Peterson
Regain control over that jumble of cords with these clever clips. Available in neutrals or brights, the clips have adhesive backs that can be attached to walls, table legs, or anywhere those pesky cables and cords need restraining.
Cable Drop, $10 for six
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By Holly Peterson
Spoil yourself with a little something to give you "courage" for the New Year...
The Courage Tray
from
Juliska$32
By Holly Peterson
Oh, that's right, I'll be spending this holiday season in SUNNY Southern California.
Looks like I'll have to keep dreaming...
Photo from Country Living Magazine
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Photo from Coastal Living Magazine
Photo from Coastal Living Magazine
By Holly Peterson
Phillips Collection - Kling II Poof Stool
Cleverly mimicking the look of a giant stone, the Kling II Poof Stool is actually a lightweight, water-resistant stonecast-resin sculpture with an angled niche that offers a place to perch. Measuring 28 inches in diameter and height, it comes in Sand and Granite color finishes.
By Holly Peterson
We heard of General Motors’s cash for clunkers campaign a few months ago, but
Emeco is putting an interior design spin on this deal-busting concept. From November 25 through February 2010, the chair manufacturer will offer a 50 percent discount on any chair and stool in its online catalog to anyone sending in an old, clunker aluminum chair.
Emeco will collect the unwanted chairs and send them to its recycling plant in Baltimore, Maryland. The discarded aluminum will then be repurposed into future products for the Emeco line. The Pennsylvania-based company will accept any aluminum chair for recycling, and customers can exchange more than one chair, as well. All chairs and stools made by Emeco qualify for the discount.
By Holly Peterson
From your "best friends" and loved ones...
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The curvilinear grid-shell is covered with over 5,300 diamond-shaped steel panels,
containing nearly 5000 RGBW LED fixtures.
Laurel Petriello -- Interior Design, 11/30/2009
Prepare to be mesmerized. The newest architectural marvel of the Middle East, YAS Hotel in Abu Dhabi, was recently completed in conjunction with the launch of the inaugural 2009 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix held at the new circuit built around the hotel. The hotel features the world’s biggest LED project to date, controlled through remote device management (RDM) protocol.
Built by Aldar Properties and designed by Asymptote Architecture, the main design attraction of this 5-star, 500-room, 279,000-square-foot complex, is the curvilinear grid-shell covered with over 5,300 diamond-shaped steel panels, containing nearly 5000 RGBW LED fixtures. New York lighting design firm Arup Lighting employed a lighting application by e:cue lighting control to create lighting effects such as color-changing lighting sequences and customized three dimensional low-resolution video content on the grid-shell.
Beneath this high technology shell resides two hotel towers complete with sculpted-steel monocoque pass-through bridge running over the Formula 1 racetrack for patrons to easily commute from building to building, as well as follow the events below.
“A perfect union and harmonious interplay between elegance and spectacle. The search here was inspired by what one could call the 'art' and poetics of motor racing, specifically Formula 1, coupled with the making of a place that celebrates Abu Dhabi as a cultural and technological tour de force,” said Hani Rashid, co-founder of Aysmptote.
The YAS Hotel opened its doors October 30, 2009.
If only it was more of a destination...
Outer Saudi Arabia is hardly where I think I'll be booking my next vacation?!
Article from: Interior Design Magazine
By Holly Peterson
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Finally, a Turmeric jar for the numerically inclined. These earthenware containers come numbered zero to nine, each with a cork top to keep your spices fresh and countertops in order.
- Price: $5.00 each
- Dimensions: H 2.75 inches x W 2.75 inches
By Holly Peterson
...to ME!!!
Thanks to somebody very special and close to my ♥,
I'll be spending my birthday in FIJI...
See you when I return!
Hugs,
Design Diva
By Holly Peterson
Joanthan Adler does it again...
A sure way to get your house guests giggling or give as a humorous gift!
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By Holly Peterson
Here’s a handy glossary defining five of the most common — and most commonly misused — color terms: tint, shade, tone, value and saturation. Tint.
Put simply, a tint is a lighter variation of a color. Tints are created by adding white to colors. For example, pink is a tint of red. A commonly held meaning of this word is to add color to something (blue-tinted hair), so it’s important to be clear with clients that the color-theory meaning is quite different. Shade.
A color made darker by adding black to it. Navy is a shade of blue. This word is routinely used to describe any variation of color, even much lighter ones — take for example the 1960s song "A Whiter Shade of Pale" — so some clients may not understand that shades are darker than the base color. Tone.
If gray is added to a color, a tone of that color is created. Tones are generally more muted versions of colors. Clients sometimes refer to grayer versions of colors as "tints" or "shades," a distinction not widely known outside the art and design communities. Value.
This term describes the lightness or darkness of a color. Colors with more white (tints) have higher value, and darker colors (shades) have lower value. It’s a very helpful term when describing the possibilities of color, but you’ll want to explain it clearly to clients. Saturation.
The purity or intensity of a color is called saturation. The most-saturated colors are vivid and strong, where less-saturated colors can appear washed out or muted. Gray has zero saturation. The quality of light can affect saturation; for example, a painted wall’s color can appear more saturated during the day and less so as the light fades, and different types of artificial light can enhance or diminish saturation.
By Holly Peterson
Now in CHILD-SIZE...
Designer: Verner Panton
By: Vitra
Your kids might be too young to fully appreciate the beautiful lines of a design classic, but they sure will love sitting—and sliding around—on Verner's Panton Chair. This Junior version is a quarter of the size of the original
Available in seven colors to match your little modernist's favorite hue.
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By Holly Peterson
From 3form
With over 100 times the impact strength of glass, Koda XT offers extensive design flexibility. Use the 3form HighRes program to incorporate custom imagery, or combine up to three layers of C3 colors for up to 10,000 color options. Koda XT can also be molded to meet extreme design requirements and, with 40% pre-consumer recycled content, is the only architectural polycarbonate material available to use towards LEED MR 4.1 for recycled content.
By Holly Peterson
From Chuck Williams
(Williams-Sonoma, Inc.)
In 1956, Chuck Williams purchased a hardware store in downtown Sonoma, California with the intention of converting it into a store specializing in French cookware. Within two years the shovels and electrical tape had been replaced with copper pans and chefs' knives, and the first Williams-Sonoma store was born. Mr. Williams remains an integral part of many aspects of the Williams-Sonoma business, from finding unique kitchenware and food items, to providing advice for catalog production and photography. Today the company operates over 250 Williams-Sonoma stores across the U.S. and Canada in addition to its popular catalog and website. In 2004, Mr. Williams was involved in the creation of the Williams-Sonoma Home brand, expanding his commitment to quality and customer service beyond the kitchen and into other rooms of the home.
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By Holly Peterson
Check out these FABULOUS new furniture finds...
Casamidy -SimiSymi armchair in solid walnut and rawhide by Casamidy
Frag - TartanTartan chair in chromed steel and woven leather lace in coffee by Frag.
Datesweiser - 3 HighWhat's the hallmark of timelessness? The ability to assimilate. Confident enough to work well with Thomas Chippendale and Florence Knoll alike, Datesweiser 's Highline conference furniture is what Allan Weiser describes as "very clean and neutral."
Wraparound legs support the cabinet of a credenza offered in three materials—walnut, oak, or white lacquer—and three versions as determined by the number of center storage levels: 1 High, 2 High, and 3 High, all at a choice of 87 or 99 inches wide. (With the double and triple models, the open shelf holds leather-covered or lacquered accessory boxes.) The conference table has a 10-foot-long top of marble, back-painted glass, anigre, oak, walnut, or solid surfacing, all configured to conceal technology essentials. Those same materials top the square and round meeting tables, which measure 48 inches across.
Avenue Road - CordSome furniture classics get reissued—this one got restrung. Industrial-design pioneer Jacques Guillon created his Cord chair in 1953 and introduced this quintessence of weightless minimalism at the Triennale di Milano the following year. The chair's most arresting features were its seat and back, nothing more than tightly strung nylon cords.
Avenue Road has now rescued Cord from obscurity—with two important differences. The seat and back are strung with eight-strand braided polyethylene in either white or black. And the frame, formerly made of laminated plywood, is solid maple veneered in walnut or lacquered black.
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By Holly Peterson
... A bath that literally breathes!
Really?!
Not quite sure how I feel about this?!
Or how "worth it" it will be once seeing the price tag?!
But the concept is cool!
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By Holly Peterson
Answered!!!
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Looking forward to having a Green Depot (or something like it) in So Cal...
Hopefully someday soon!
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Photo from Coastal Living Magazine
Photo from Coastal Living Magazine
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Looking for Fabulous Stationery?
Finally, a Turmeric jar for the numerically inclined. These earthenware containers come numbered zero to nine, each with a cork top to keep your spices fresh and countertops in order.
Here’s a handy glossary defining five of the most common — and most commonly misused — color terms: tint, shade, tone, value and saturation.
Designer: Verner Panton
Dress by John Petrey at the Lois Lambert Gallery; courtesy of John Petrey.
A dress in crepe de chine and vinyl records, from Maison Martin Margiela's Artisanal collection.
The budget airline announced their plans for creating the verdant vehicle at its annual media day on October 21. The main aim of the plane is to reduce weight savings by almost five pound per seat, thus saving fuel and reducing emissions.
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