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Boffi Los Angeles

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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When it comes to clean, timeless Italian design, nothing compares to Boffi Los Angeles. “I incorporate Boffi products into my designs because they are unique,” says Arizona-based architect Peter Magee. “When I first saw their Po tub, it blew my mind. It took me two months to track it down—and after it was delivered, I saw that the pictures didn’t do it justice.” Named after Italy’s Po River, this gorgeously simple tub is carved out of pure limestone and weighs an awesome 1984 pounds. It usually has to be delivered by forklift—but it would be the center of attention no matter how it arrived. (via Elements of Living)

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Flos

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Although she’s a bit computer-shy, interior designer Sally Sirkin Lewis of Inglewood, California, favors lighting easily found on the Web from the Italian firm Flos. Recently Sirkin chose Flos’s Parentsi lamp for a private residence. “It’s sleek and minimal,” she says—a perfect match for her understated style, which mixes classic design with soft, modern, natural materials. “Spending time in Rome, Milan and Florence turned me on to Italian task lighting—I use it almost exclusively in my work,” Sirkin says. Now, if she’ll learn to love the computer, she won’t need to make the trip again. (via Elements of Living)

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Orange Skin

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Wrapping up a recent project for the offices of Invisalign, Chicago-based architect James Papoutsis didn’t have to look far for the finishing touch: The local pros at Italian-design-crazy Orange Skin had just what he needed. White lounge chairs and Philippe Starck’s clear plastic Ero[s] seats made the offices clean and spare, adding a subtly stylish nod to its functional, transparent product: contact lenses. Even Papoutsis was impressed. "Orange Skin’s owners and operators, Giuseppe Cerasoli and Obi Nwazota, are two accomplished designers who are able to understand the particular language of my projects," he says. "They are able to make informed recommendations, saving me endless amounts of time. It’s like having my own personal design department." Striking contemporary Italian furniture and modern design objects can also be seen on the company’s website. (via Elements of Living)

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Design Public

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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When “design nuts” Drew Sanocki and Sina Djafar launched Edge Modern, a Web-based company dedicated to modern furnishings and bedding, their well-edited offerings quickly won the attention of modernist design devotees like Sherry Black. “I was trying to track down a specific rug for a restaurant client and I needed it in short order,” says the Wilmington, NC, interior designer, who discovered Edge Modern during her search. “After one conversation with Drew and Sina—and no luck with the rug—I trusted them to help me choose another one, which turned out to be perfect.”
Now the pair are flinging open the “doors” of their cyber store to hold an ongoing design town meeting. The expanded and renamed site, www.designpublic.com, will continue to offer selections from both well-known design sources (Blu Dot, Dwell, Angela Adams) and lesser-known ones (Variegated, John Kelly Furniture). But users can also click their way into forums, photo galleries, chats with guest designers, blogs on new products and primers demystifying such subjects as thread counts. “I want the site to be as interactive as possible, one where customers can share information, opinions and resources with one another,” says Sanocki, who has been known to direct clients away from his site and to Ikea for certain products. This kind of openness may explain why Sherry Black and other designers and architects plan to keep up with the ongoing designpublic.com conversation. (via Elements of Living)

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Contemporary Cloth

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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As a child, Sondra Borrie spent hours watching her aunt, New York abstract expressionist painter Margaret Milliken (above), apply oils to canvas. “I was just mesmerized by her work,” Borrie recalls. But her admiration didn’t stop with her aunt. “Being around her opened my eyes to abstract art and contemporary design,” says the former occupational therapist who, after struggling to find the right retro fabrics for her own design projects, launched Contemporary Cloth.com, a Cleveland-based website, in 2001. The site reflects Borrie’s love for mid-century-modern textiles and features a selection of striking but affordable fabrics for upholstered pieces—a welcome source now that the designs of the 1950s and ’60s have taken off, with the soaring prices to prove it.
When visiting Contemporary Cloth, head for the Interior Design Textiles section, where you can choose from an assortment of medium- to heavy-weight retro fabrics. For help with selecting patterns and colors, click on Continue Shopping after fabrics have been placed in your cart and go to the Interactive Design Wall, a handy tool for mixing and matching digital swatches. When done, you can feel virtuous about virtually shopping here: Borrie donates 1 percent of her profits to a local homeless shelter. (via Elements of Living)

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www.1stdibs.com

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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When planning the guest bedroom for the owners of a log-and-stone home in the Colorado Rockies, Vail-based designer Melissa Greenauer wanted to create a cozy seating area where visitors could relax, read and soak up the spectacular mountain views. She turned—as she often does—to 1stdibs.com, a designer’s dream resource of antique- and contemporary-furniture dealers in markets from Paris to Los Angeles. Launched by Web entrepreneur Michael Bruno in 2001, the site features seating, lighting, tables, mirrors and other furnishings that are high-end and unique, says Greenauer. Prices are negotiable, she adds, and most designers purchase directly from dealers. For her clients’ guest bedroom, she found two Art Deco chairs with soft rolled arms, a pair of Murano glass sconces and pendant fixtures that lend the space the warm, inviting look she was after. Visitors to the jam-packed site can search for furnishings by city, country of origin, century, dealer, category, designer or price, then store items for purchase in a virtual stockroom. New items are posted every Wednesday. (via Elements of Living)

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The Brass Knob

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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“I recently restored two mantels I found at the Brass Knob, and underneath years of paint, there were two bisque angels and an incredible amount of detail,” says Washington, DC, interior designer Beth Peacock. “It’s impossible to find that kind of artisanship in new pieces today.” Peacock relies on the DC shop—and its 9,000-square-foot sister, The Brass Knob Back Doors Warehouse—for many of the projects she oversees, including a recently completed renovation on Capitol Hill for which she tapped the store for five fireplace mantels, not to mention lighting fixtures, door knobs and other hardware for nearly every room in the house.
Those of us outside, or even way outside, the Beltway can go online to view roughly 60 percent of the Brass Knob’s store inventory of architectural antiques. The Web catalog includes hardware, several types of lighting, decorative tiles, ironwork, columns, bath fixtures and stained glass, among other categories—items that date mostly from the mid-1800s through the 1930s. Owners Donetta George and Ron Allan—who Peacock says “could not be more knowledgeable or helpful”—are happy to answer questions, provide detailed digital photographs and ship anywhere. (via Elements of Living)

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Family Heirloom Weavers

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Antique fabrics were made of all-natural materials: silk, cotton, hemp and wool. And it’s because of those moths, and the ruinous effects of water, rot and sunlight, that relatively few survive. Even fewer are actually usable, and those that are lie quietly in museum-storage drawers: cool, away from the light, and archived for textile scholars. That’s why, if you’re designing a bedroom with a linsey-woolsey coverlet in mind (especially one with your or your client’s name in the corner), you shouldn’t expect to find one on eBay or at a local tag sale. But you can find it at neighborly firms like Family Heir-loom Weavers, who’ll make it right in their workshop in Red Lion, PA. (via Elements of Living)

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Thistle Hill Weavers

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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If the only thing for the kitchen seems to be curtains in the eighteenth-century plain-weave, unglazed worsted called camlet, Thistle Hill Weavers in upstate New York know what it is and how to make it. Lovers of the formal can carefully carry their faded shreds of Versailles-era silk to Scalamandré in Manhattan for perfect copies, or even send a picture of the original, though this old, family-owned firm is also happy to re-create the velvet of Scarlett O’Hara’s (and Carol Burnett’s) Tara-drapery dress. (via Elements of Living)

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Charles Rupert

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The colors of early wools, silks and cottons were, naturally, limited to the vegetable and other dyes available at the time, and many of today’s re-creators of old textiles prefer to offer those old hues. This means that if you want to hide a TV set under a baize cloth (the way they once covered dining room tables and budgies), you might be limited to the very few colors once used. Charles Rupert, for example, which also sells reproductions of William Morris and Voysey prints, imports traditional baize from England and has it in the traditional dark green (think billiard tables), burgundy, navy and red. (via Elements of Living)

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Reprodepot Fabrics

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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For twentieth-century fabrics, Reprodepot Fabrics is among several online firms offering vintage prints that, until now, could only be found at flea markets. They sell the wild Havana and Copacabana barkcloths from the ’40s and the not-at-all depressing Aunt Grace’s Spots from the ’30s. Don’t overlook decorator sources, however: Trade-only showrooms are beginning to carry mid-century modern too, in colors and patterns so accurately goofy, they’ll make you smile. Anyone needing to upholster that pouf on the white shag rug will find plenty of groovy sources. (via Elements of Living)

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Arts & Crafts Period Textiles

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Arts and Crafts Period Textiles, reproducing turn-of-the-twentieth-century fabrics for fans of Stickley furniture and Rookwood pottery, doesn’t do orange checks or custom weaving, but it does offer quietly appropriate custom stenciling or hand-embroidery on subdued imported linens or sheer cottons. Owner Dianne Ayres studied textile arts in college and became seriously interested in Arts and Crafts design through her husband. Although the standard Gingko and Checkerberry patterns are customer favorites, she says, Ayres and the three talented ladies who do her embroidery always enjoy the challenge of special orders. (via Elements of Living)

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Parts of a Rainbow

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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The blocky forms of Parts of a Rainbow are open on one side so that any number of chairs can slide into one another to save space or create a sturdy bench. Christian Flindt designed the chairs—the world’s first side-stacking version, he claims—which won the Design Prize 2005 at Copenhagen, in joyful colors that, when linked, change hue as if paints overlapping on an artist’s palette. (via Elements of Living)

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Mondrian Lamp

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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The almost imperceptible profile of Lightyears’ Mondrian lamp, designed by Cecilie Manz, is executed in steel bar and pipe. A molded acrylic collar prevents glare. And a ring, also acrylic, illuminates when the light is on, indicating directions in which the spot can be trained—180 degrees horizontally and 335 degrees vertically, thanks to a ball joint. Also in floor, table, pendant and sconce versions. Available in lacquered white. (via Elements of Living)

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Albioncourt

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Britain’s Albioncourt digitally customizes any of the 14 lampshade styles in its collection, whether a classic tapered coolie (Empire or fez), cube with rounded edges, or a shallow tube. For the highest quality production, the company’s website gives clear instructions for customers who supply their own photography. Households without a budding Ansel Adams can choose from Albioncourt’s small archive of original images such as landscapes, flora, food and other subjects. (via Elements of Living)

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Davda

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Davda’s London studio has built a reputation for ceramic tableware marked by loving imperfections. Its artist-owners, Israeli-born Mair Davda and his English wife Jo Brickett, also make lighting that have slightly irregular shapes and patterns; material flaws demonstrate the touch of the hand. But perhaps the small collection’s calling card is its love affair with dappled light. Here, the Circle Light’s anodized steel circles emit an amber glow. (via Elements of Living)

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Sunflower Lamp

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Danish lighting company Le Klint’s Sunflower lamp, by native designer Philip Bro Ludvigsen, is innovative in both style and substance: It can be hung as a pendant or turned sideways and mounted as a wall fixture. (via Elements of Living)

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UnderCover Lamp

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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With the UnderCover lamp, Le Klint has found a remedy for the same-old-lampshade dilemma. Ludvigsen’s acrylic shade is actually two-in-one: an acrylic outer shade that protects a changeable inner shade. That decorative skin is available in five collections, including Doodle Dot, Marimekko—florals by designers Maija and Kristin Isola, and solid colors. UnderCover makes your fluctuating preference an accessory—and changing trends a cinch. Shades come in diameters of 13 inches or 17 inches. (via Elements of Living)

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Caribou Chair

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Although spring is approaching, it is never too late to get your cozy on. Shimna, a small New York City–based company, introduces their Caribou chair. Handcrafted in your choice of hard or reclaimed wood (cherry, oak, or walnut) with all natural finishes, the chair is complemented by an earthy combination of leather and fur. Or if you aren’t into the animal motif, choose a fabric. Either way you’ll look chic and feel comfortable. (via Elements of Living)

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Virgins 6-LT Chandelier

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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The Murano glass-tipped arms of Virgins 6-LT from Lightology capture the curvaceous essence of Art Nouveau. Perhaps the chandelier’s whiplash-like movement owes something to founder Greg Kay’s start in the business, lighting roller discos. Even switched off, the piece shines with a beautifully hand-waxed finish. (via Elements of Living)

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Shag Tiles

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Ceramicist Jennifer Prichard brings a naturalist’s approach to tiles and wall coverings. Her dramatically three-dimensional porcelain compositions variously call to mind creeping lichens, scattered bivalves, pebbles, shells and, in this case, stalactites. (via Elements of Living)

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Hairy Bertoia

Updated Apr 4, 2006

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It’s alive! In a lighthearted homage, Pennsylvania designer Douglas Homer hand-knots 2,500 strands of spongy fingers of extruded EPDM onto freshly powder-coated vintage Diamond chairs by the sculptor/designer Harry Bertoia. Similarly treated Bertoia Bird chairs, lounge chairs, ottomans, footstools and side chairs available too. Black, white and custom colors. (via Elements of Living)

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Mioculture: Bendant Lamp

Updated Apr 4, 2006

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This flat-packed, cleverly named chandelier from Mioculture marks an advance in designer/client collaboration: Its leaflike shades of powder-coated, laser-cut steel in white, silver or electric lemon may be folded up or down according to the owner’s whim and need. Accepts a 20-watt fluorescent globe. Hardwiring kits sold separately. (via Elements of Living)

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Vitra: .05 Chair

Updated Apr 4, 2006

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This ingenious cantilevered chair traces its ancestry to the 1930s, but it was designer Maarten Van Severen who had the good sense to cushion the seat and back with integral polyurethane that adjusts to the sitter. Available in black, blue, gray, red and orange. (via Elements of Living)

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Two-Oven Aga Cooker

Updated Apr 4, 2006

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Perhaps the Saab of ovens, classic Aga Cookers, slicked with three coats of vitreous enamel over cast-iron, operate on continuous radiant heat. With no gas or electric burners, the cast-iron cook top features a boiling plate (to 700 degrees Fahrenheit) and simmering plate (about 350 degrees). Two cavernous ovens are for roasting and simmering; the door at bottom left provides access to the burner that drives the machine. Amazingly energy efficient, the Aga costs about the same to run as a hot-water heater. (via Elements of Living)

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