Mark Your Calendar: PotteryBarn Event
Hope you get a chance to take advantage of this FUN opportunity!!!
Nov
23
Hope you get a chance to take advantage of this FUN opportunity!!!
Nov
22
Happy Birthday...
...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
Nov
20
Nov
19
Paint 101
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.
Nov
16
Panton Junior Chair
Now in CHILD-SIZE...
Designer: Verner PantonBy: 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.
Get one for the child/children you love @ vitra.com
Nov
13
An Exterior Solution
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.
Nov
12
Tips For Entertaining...
From Chuck Williams
(Williams-Sonoma, Inc.)
(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.
Click {here} for A Discussion With Chuck
Nov
11
NEW PRODUCTS!!! November 2009
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.
Contact Design Diva Interiors for more info. & pricing
Nov
10
What A Waist
Dress by John Petrey at the Lois Lambert Gallery; courtesy of John Petrey.
Made of bottle caps and vintage aluminum signage, John Petrey's "Ethel" comes to the Lois Lambert Gallery in Los Angeles.
Maison Martin Margiela's Artisanal collection; courtesy of Marina Faust.
A dress in crepe de chine and vinyl records, from Maison Martin Margiela's Artisanal collection.Article from INTERIOR DESIGN:
"Clothes made from discarded metal and plastic are probably not the most comfortable to wear, but these dresses definitely take repurposing to a new, rather chic level. A sculptor, John Petrey, turns bottle caps, marquee letters, tin ceiling tiles, and broken yardsticks into "outfits" that pay facetious tribute to the innocent mind-set of the 1950's and '60's. See a dozen at the Lois Lambert Gallery in Los Angeles, starting November 14—right around the time when like-minded pieces by Maison Martin Margiela will be available at yoox.com. Handmade from discarded items such as vinyl records and disco-ball mirror squares, the 100 one-offs will be sold to benefit the Rosa Spier House, a nonprofit artists' retirement community in the Netherlands."
Nov
9
Breathing Bathtub
... 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!
Read more @ InteriorsFromSpain
Nov
3
Peace & Love
There's something about these photos in particular
that bring me a sense of peace and LOVE
that bring me a sense of peace and LOVE
Nov
2
Southwest Airlines GOING GREEN
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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