Do you have an image in your head of how your dream home would look? Do you think you could knock the designer socks off Laurence Llewellyn Bowen and Linda Barker? And would you like to practice your design skills on a six bedroom luxury villa costing less than the price of a one bed flat in a less than salubrious area of London?
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The South West’s brightest design-led furniture showroom uncovers this year’s must have furniture designs
Choosing furniture for your home can prove a tricky business with a number of important factors to consider such as size, shape, colour, style and feel. Not forgetting the very important issues of practicality and comfort, what should be an enjoyable shopping experience can easily become a time consuming and daunting task. (more…)
Three floors of the Bard Graduate Center, at 18 West 86th Street in Manhattan, are filled with curvy, modern, bent and laminated beech easy chairs and chaise longues with woven, webbed seating — perfect for any beach house. There are daybeds with adjustable reading stands and companion floor-level book “cribs,” armchairs with rotating bases and elliptical blond dining tables with spindly legs that seem to float above the floor. A film on one wall depicts a glass house in a forest by the sea.
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Key Contact: Jim Black, principal/architect
Active Regions: Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast
In Their Own Words:
Forum Architecture & Interior Design Inc., based in Altamonte Springs, Fla. (Orlando), is a full-service architectural firm specializing in planning, architecture and interior design. Founded in 1986 by its principals James B. Black and R. Norman Stoehr, Forum currently maintains a staff of approximately 50 design professionals. Forum is a full-service architectural firm that has designed over 50,000 apartment units and 4,500 timeshare units in 12 states. (more…)
With 20 years of business experience, Lisa Petrella had done just about everything: Climbed the corporate ladder, traveled around the world and ran the marketing end of a $55 million industrial supply company.
So it came as a surprise to some when Petrella quit her job, returned to school and decided to open her own interior design firm. But for Petrella, it was a move that took her working life from predictable to exhilarating.
“I had a career but no time for anything else in my life,” Petrella said. (more…)
