Fun and fabulous new lighting from Perch! The sunny Zooey Chandelier will bring the sunshine inside, match with either a Hans Wall Sconce or a Frida Desk Lamp for a complete look! The alluring Perch Birdfeeder and Lunchbox Birdfeeder will have a full flock in your yard in no time! And the original and adorable Early Bird and Black Bird Pendant Lights fit in anywhere.
The Dubai design scene is booming, much like everything else here, and with the new opening of Traffic Gallery in the Al Barsha area of Dubai, the buzz from all the excitement is deafening. Not only are they having a FAB sale during May (first come first serve basis), with designers such as Droog, Magis and Tse & Tse being represented, but they have these awesome items from the Campana Brothers.
Warning: these are almost too cool.
Fernando and Humberto Campana are inspired by South American street life and successfully create vibrant, energetic & colorful unique pieces from found objects such as scraps of wood and fabric off-cuts. Coming from Brazil, one with a degree in law, the other with a degree in architecture, these brothers are establishing worldwide presence from Boston, USA to now, the UAE.
...and one for the kiddies!!!
Amazing new pillows and fabric prints from new vendor, Three Sheets 2 The Wind! 100% linen pillows with screen printed minimal designs like the Blossom Tree Pillow 12 x 20, or the Bent Tulip Pillow 18 x 18. Their prints come in three different sizes and are perfect in every room, such as the Dandelion 8 x 8 Wall Print. All pillows and prints come in a variety of fabrics and colors!
Brand new items from K Studio! All of these items are eco-friendly, made from either hemp or organic cotton. Check out their family-themed pillows such as the 4 Person Family Plus Cat and Dog Pillow and Remote Control Pillow, and new fabric wall art such as the Crying Wall Art. These fun, "green" items are perfect for any room in the house!
Like everyone else these days, I am on an eco-conscious, reduce my carbon footprint, path. When I saw these paints listed in Readymade Magazine's Digital Sampler Edition, I just had to share. All of the paint hues are low voc paints (that's low volatile organic compounds) for keeping your internal spaces environmentally friendly
You can get clearer images with costs per gallon and websites from ReadyMade's online edition article (just go to the contents page, click on Re View, and go through each page until you get to the one on paints...you'll enjoy the ride).
I first read about ReadyMade going digital from Sustainablog, then visited because I am mad for ReadyMade anyway and I love this thing of magazines having full digital editions online. Turns out if you subscribe to their online edition, Nau, Inc. that other infamous sustainable (yet fashionable) outdoor apparel company automatically donates 5% of the suscription price to the Offset portfolio of Nau's partner organization, Climate Trust.
So, does that mean if I paint my walls with one of these Low Voc Paints, that I can then buy into these gorgeous chairs by Stephano Giovannoni for Magis? Although, the polycarbonate was conceived for injection molding without gases.
Check out Climate Trust's site to tell you about carbon offsets and what they can do to help us reduce our carbon footprint....but really for me to answer the above question, I need to go here.
Great new products by new vendor Parametre by 3form now on 2Modern! Hot new Hexa, Mega, and Quad are innovative 3D textile systems for dividing up rooms and spaces in a non-invasive and eco-friendly way.
2Modern introduces a new vendor that is both environmentally friendly and socially conscious! Each piece from Orange22's Botanist series starts with a single piece of aluminum, which is precisely
cut, bent, and faced with either a high impact powder coat, such as the Botanist Flora Bench, or an epoxy coated real wood veneer, as shown here in the Botanist Natural Cocktail. For their pink items, such as the Botanist Flora Pink End Table or the Botanist Flow Pink Bench, Orange22 donates $25.00 of each sale to go to breast cancer awareness, research, and treatment.
New on 2Modern: Droog! Different and fun, Droog's products are wide-ranging; from Doorbells to Swings, Tablecloths to Parasols. Based in Amsterdam, Droog prides itself in "creating innovative concepts that change perspective."
The
Jean-Michel Frank sofa. You might not be familiar with the name, but you are familiar with the look. It is everywhere. It is classic and clean
and works with most modern (after 1930) interior design. If you own this
shape sofa, it will fit in almost anywhere, though it might not
follow the other lines in your furniture designs, it will not interfere,
stand out too much, or compete. It possesses straight sides; is not too puffy, and depending on the chosen upholstery, also not too
unusual.
Jean
Michel Frank [1895-1941] was born near the end of the 19th century. Consider
what furniture movements were around at that time and you can see how this
shape would have been considered highly unusual to some or extremely pedestrian to
others.
The proof
of this design as a classic style and the fact that it plays well with others is
that almost every major furniture retailer has a similar style in their core
collection, such as:
Room & Board: Dean,
runner ups: Essex, Winston
Crate and Barrel: Axis,
runner ups: Lombard, Cameron
Restoration Hardware: Austin
Pottery Barn: PB
Square
Macy's (as close as it gets) Corona
IKEA (close but not it) Karlstad
DWR: (close) Portula
For more
on Jean-Michel:
Jean
Michel Frank: The Strange and Subtle Luxury of the Parisian Haute-Monde in the
Art Deco Period,
by Pierre Emmanuel Martin-Vivier, $64
Architectural Digest Design Legends: Jean-Michel
Frank
Architonic: Products
Note: Jean-Michel never licensed his designs. The only way someone can guarantee that they have one of his pieces is if it can be documented that it was a part of an interiors he designed for a client's home.
I saw Christian Zuzunaga's sofa yesterday on Cool Hunter and it struck me as such a awesome pattern for a sofa.
Zuzunaga's pixel pattern became a big hit at the 2007 RCA show. The exposure from the show landed him a commission by ProVision to produce a 3 seat sofa! He uses a Moroso sofa and his pixel pattern is printed on fabric by Kvadrat.
Zuzugana's bio is pretty cool too, make sure you check it out at his site.
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