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Extra Extra - It's The Sublime To The Magnificent!

posted May 18, 2013

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EXTRA! EXTRA! JUST IN FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK...
It's The Sublime To The Magnificent!

That sums up anything artistically the Italians and the Milan Furniture Fair can pull out of the hat...

In one day of footslogging I had two memorable visits to see young design and free expression...

And as you were not there I thought I should show you two of the best!

First it was MOOOI - always controversial with their whimsy and tongue-in-cheek designs. This true, brilliant, wild, and off-the-wall design group is headquartered in The Netherlands.

MOOOI always give me surprises and delight.
They produce great products in among the whimsy - their lighting is always groundbreaking. This year is no exception with fun furniture, seating and sublime lighting.
But the venue and the magnificent images of photographer ERWIN OLAF were spectacular. This year their design products sing with drama.... just keep scrolling and you will see why!



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Trend Trekker 2013 - It's Milan for Furniture

posted May 11, 2013

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Magis Ron Arad.  It's Milan for Furniture Trend Trekker 2013



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Extra Extra - Rebecca Moses

posted May 4, 2013

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A bit of whimsey and we thought you might enjoy a 'very stylish viewpoint'... 

Our very own Paula Rice Jackson just met the FUNNY and STYLISH Ms. Rebecca Moses, adored her interiors sketches and wanted to share them.

They're about inhabiting room, down-time with one's girl-friends...

...decorating, collecting, books, and more books, did we say BOOKS?

Each is an intricate celebration of layering - scale, patter, light, color, humor and most important to Rebecca, JOY! She has many terrific talents and is a real whiz illustrating Interiors and Fashion. Hers was the vision behind Genny, for the late Gianni Versace.

One of her most popular is simply a gathering of chairs...I LOVE Louis Anything, says Rebecca. It's become THE perfect neutral.

Instantly recognizable, her figures, 'characters' as she calls them, are extremely attenuated, stacked with bracelets on skinny arms and 'Daddy-Long-legs' patterned stockings, pointy-shoes and razor-clean hemlines. Very IN Fashion. 200 brand new ones done for her highly successful book, Rebecca Moses: A Life of Style (The Monacelli Press).

Today Rebecca is re-inventing her professional career, giving seminars at MACY'S talking about dressing your dining table, she's into video and film-making for the smart-phone and tablet set: Glassware, carpets, textiles, fashion accessories...

She does illustrations for Japanese VOGUE, she's running two houses, here and Italy, she's raising her boys. And there's a dog - Talk about an 'embarassment of riches!'



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Fabric Trend Trekker - Spring 2013

posted April 27, 2013

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Fabric Trend Trekker - Spring 2013



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CAYETANA DUCHESS OF ALBA …SOME DAME!

posted April 18, 2013

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Editor's Word and Trend Trekker: Colors for Spring

posted April 11, 2013

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Editor's Word

DEAR READERS SPRING IS HERE …..

can you believe 2013!!


IT’S ABOUT …..... Skipping off to Milan for the Salone di Mobili for the best  and brightest in new ideas, line,  style,  materials and trends in furniture ….. so reports and observations will follow. And, please note, will the Euro designers shock the world or... play it safe reflecting the European woes ???

IT’S ABOUT …...... OUR SPRING COLOR REPORT.  A gorgeous group of beguiling, pretty  sophisticates…….. Pastels to mid tones to truly great deeps ….and, as they say in the classics …. scroll on scroll…on!!

IT’S ABOUT …... Our next postings.  Don’t miss …….. THE SPRING FABRIC REPORT … Flowers are romantic beauties…… Houndstooth and Greek key patterns are a changed breed ….. Divinely soft and blurry checks and homespun stripes … Paisley looks young and thrilling …... And look for exciting new ways to view the classics and on and on …

IT’S ABOUT ….... THE LAST OF THE GREAT EUROPEAN ROYALS …… Now THIS IS A DUCHESS…a DIVA ….. a DANCER and one that ADORES  DECORATING ….Olė

IT’S ABOUT ….... THE LANGUAGE OF WALLS ---- YES, I know I’ve been promising this for months now.  There  are  some  WONDROUS THINGS TO SHOW …. it’s coming this time for sure.

IT’S ABOUT ….. A wild little something--  an ‘EXTRA EXTRA’  of simply delicious sketches with a great and zippy style and the frenzy of the  “DECORATING LIFESTYLE “ by well known fashion designer Rebecca Moses…. Very  charming, very whimsical, very happy.


Yours,