Important things to do while furnishing your living room is to get good sofa sets. Italian Home Décor with Formenti of Italy, Often times at Furniture Fashion, it can be a challenge to find interior design pieces that are new and fresh. Choose the fabric of the sofa with a lot of deliberation as well, the color of the sofa set should match the wall color. (more…)
One sales consultant in Westbury has shown true dedication to her role – by putting her ‘art’ and soul into her work. Angie Cotterill is part of the sales team at Redrow’s popular Lakelands Edge development and has provided a helping hand by adorning the brand new show home with her original artwork.
The budding artist, who lives in Lower Vobster, has combined her working life with her hobby and added her own personal touch to the Malham show home.
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The latest trend in the design world is convergence, or crossover, a blurring of the lines between runway fashion, furniture and architecture.
It’s when a sofa fabric inspires a new line of china; when apparel designer Giorgio Armani, already the creator of a collection of home furnishings, styles a building’s interior; and when a staircase on a building’s interior inspires the fabric for a gown.
Closer to home, it’s when the renowned Italian house of Fendi, famous for its fur fashion, decides to open a showroom of high-end furniture and accessories in the Washington Design Center, to be called Fendi Casa, scheduled for later this month. (more…)
The widening net of world trade appeared to be the reason the 45th Salone Internazionale del Mobile, an international furniture fair held in the outskirts of Milan, hosted a near-record 2,500 exhibitors from 37 countries this month. It was a New Age trade caravan, and with it came a hybrid international aesthetic that even the Italians, who were 90 percent of the exhibitors, embraced.
At the new fairgrounds and buildings in Rho-Pero, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, in showrooms within the city, at private parties leading up to opening day, and at off-site events in the grungy Tortona design district during I Saloni, spectators got a clear view of what’s to come in furniture, kitchen and bath design stores this fall. (more…)
