Contemporary home designs are created with clean lines and lower-pitched roof profiles that make a strong architectural statement. The interior design of your home should reflect the character of the ‘exterior design’. A French, English or Italian style home should have the period style moldings and other decorative design details inside to complement the facade treatment. (more…)
The Daily Telegraph / House & Garden Fair 2007 is the UK’s most prestigious event for interior and garden design. From bathrooms to bedrooms, gourmet food to garden furniture, the Fair brings you an unprecedented line up of exhibitors all carefully handpicked by House & Garden to ensure the highest quality products, most of which you will not find on the High Street.
For anyone passionate about interiors and gardens, the Fair is an excellent opportunity to see the very latest classic and contemporary designs from many of the country’s most prominent designers. And with numerous interactive seminars and talks going on throughout the Fair, visitors can gather a whole host of expert tips and advice to take home with them.
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The High Point market creates buzz with children’s collections, new colors and environmental focus
Twice a year, furniture manufacturers, retailers and magazine editors gather in High Point, N.C., to see what’s in the pipeline for the coming season. From across the 12 million square feet of showrooms comes a wealth of new trends, color directions and insider chatter. What will the best-dressed rooms be wearing next spring? Some clues follow. In most cases, the pieces featured will be available in retail stores in about six months. (more…)
The star power may have been lacking at the fall High Point Market (formerly the International Home Furnishings Market) last week, with Martha Stewart conspicuously absent for the launch of her new furniture collection with Bernhardt. But there definitely wasn’t a shortage of buzz-worthy introductions. Here are a few new furniture lines and pieces that caught our eye for their design, practicality and affordability. In most cases, the pieces featured will be available in retail stores in about six months.
Metropolitan Home
What’s new: Metropolitan Home magazine teamed up with contemporary designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and manufacturer Shermag to debut its first furniture collection. The goal of the collection is to provide an “accessible modern” aesthetic that consumers can mix and match and incorporate into any type of decor – not necessarily a space devoted to modern furnishings. The look among the more than 65 items is varied and sometimes whimsical, with Noriega-Ortiz paying painstaking attention to shapes and silhouettes and combining unexpected materials such as acrylic and zebra wood in coffee tables. (more…)
The star power may have been lacking at the fall High Point Market (formerly the International Home Furnishings Market) recently, with Martha Stewart conspicuously absent for the launch of her new furniture collection with Bernhardt. But there definitely wasn’t a shortage of buzz-worthy introductions. Here are a few new furniture lines and pieces that caught our eye for their design, practicality and affordability. In most cases, the pieces featured will be available in retail stores in about six months.
Metropolitan Home Collection
What’s new: Metropolitan Home magazine teamed up with contemporary designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and manufacturer Shermag to debut its first furniture collection. The goal of the collection is to provide an “accessible modern” aesthetic that consumers can mix and match and incorporate into any type of decor — not necessarily a space devoted to modern furnishings. The look among the more than 65 items is varied and sometimes whimsical, with Noriega-Ortiz paying painstaking attention to shapes and silhouettes (there’s only one piece of hardware in the entire line) and combining unexpected materials such as acrylic and zebra wood in coffee tables, and putting hammered metal onto the bottom of a bookcase. (more…)
