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Scott + Cooner

fawnellis — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:19:30 PDT

Recommended by fawnellis on Apr 13, 2006

This small Texas-based chain carries over 15 Italian brands, including Acerbis, Baleri Italia, Casa Milano, Dema, Fiam Italia, Flexform, Foscarini, Matteo Grassi, Porada, Tre-Pui and Zanotta. The retail store was founded in 1995 by architect Lloyd Scott and interior designer Josette Cooner. The company carries modern European-designed furniture that ranges from well-known brands such as Poliform to ones still fairly new to the US market like Tre-Pui. Scott + Cooner has retail stores located in Austin and Dallas. (via Elements of Living)

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Boffi Los Angeles

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:23:29 PDT

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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

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:21:48 PDT

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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

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:20:14 PDT

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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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Atmosphere Furniture

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:08:01 PDT

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Atmosphere is one of the US firms that has its high-quality custom designs manufactured in Brazil; Shelly Baduay, who heads the Los Angeles–based company, calls it a symbiotic arrangement. “We work only with wood certified by the Brazilian government,” she says. “That means we never use any tree until it has completed its life cycle, and we’re proud to be able to produce 300 pieces of furniture from a single tree. It also means that it may well be five more years before we receive another such specimen of a particular tree.” (via Elements of Living)

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Artefacto

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:05:24 PDT

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Artefacto, a world-renowned manufacturer of luxury furnishings, sells its goods domestically through its own stores and grabs attention with a substantial marketing ploy: an annual interior design contest using Artefacto furniture and accessories. The winning designers create model rooms for customers to wander through on the second floor of each store. (via Elements of Living)

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Design Public

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:01:49 PDT

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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

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:56:50 PDT

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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

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:53:11 PDT

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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

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:50:51 PDT

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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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Environmental Home Center

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:47:41 PDT

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When entering the Pacific Northwest, one can’t help but notice the high mountains, gleaming bodies of water and lush forests that take over the landscape. Wilderness outfitters and natural-food stores are nearly equivalent to the number of computer-based companies that overwhelm the area. Quickly one realizes that Northwesterners are passionate about the environment. No wonder transplanted Midwesterners Matthew Freeman-Gleason and his wife, Alison, decided to open the Environmental Home Center in Seattle. The idea had its roots in Gleason’s growing awareness that his work as a carpenter and contractor took a huge toll on the environment and human health. After a year of research, his mission became clear: He was to supply homeowners with affordable, stylish and sustainable products that could perform as well as (or even outperform) conventional ones. At the same time he would maintain equivalent or better prices—therefore beating the notion that sustainable products are expensive.
The Environmental Home Center opened its first facility in 1992 and is now located in a 30,000-square-foot showroom and warehouse in downtown Seattle, a far cry from its original 800-square-foot space on an island just outside the city. As the business has grown, so has the number of companies teaming up with it. The store defeats the general misconception that there aren’t many options in sustainable products by offering its consumers choices within categories. Shopping here is basically like going to a “green” Home Depot, and the best part is, you don’t have to live in Seattle to reap the benefits. Online orders are accepted, and the staff answers questions via e-mail. Not all products are on the website yet. However, it is just as easy to phone for samples and other suggestions from the sales experts, who have backgrounds in interior design, environmental science and sustainable materials. Overall, the EHC is a great one-stop shop for the sustainable builder, designer or homeowner on a budget. (via Elements of Living)

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Family Heirloom Weavers

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:34:17 PDT

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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

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:31:51 PDT

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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

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:28:57 PDT

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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

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:26:22 PDT

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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

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:24:22 PDT

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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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Jim Thompson

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:27:55 PDT

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The special silk that hails from Thailand is prized for its great texture and weight, but more so for its gleaming patina. The beautiful sheen caught the eye of Jim Thompson, an American army officer who made Thailand his home after World War II, and who forever changed the Thai tradition of enlisting a local weaver and one’s tailor or dressmaker to custom weave silk and fashion it into clothing.
Thompson, with his discerning eye for beautiful things, inspired local weavers and their families to try new patterns and to use the color-fast dyes he imported from Europe. He also supplied them with a particular silkworm that had an appetite for a particular mulberry leaf, which resulted in a spun cocoon with a very long, inherently textured filament. These coarse strands are what give Thai silk its beautiful slubs, textures, and shine. Before long, a cottage industry emerged and Thompson opened an enchanting—and internationally famous—silk shop in Bangkok. Knowing the power of the American media, Thompson brought a small collection of silks to New York, where he was introduced to Vogue editor Edna Chase, and the rest is history. It was interior designer Billy Baldwin, however, who first used Thai silk in a client’s New York apartment, thus beginning America’s love affair with interiors swathed in Thai silk. (via Elements of Living)

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Chelsea Editions

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:25:53 PDT

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Today, some of the finest Indian embroideries are still produced in Southern Asia. Chelsea Editions is considered the premiere source for embellished fabrics based on eighteenth-century patterns and made in India under the direction of Mona Perlhagen, the company’s founder. Perlhagen works with textile dealers and mills to create product true to historical documents when she’s not sleuthing around for antique textiles to use as inspirations for her own designs. (via Elements of Living)

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Tesla Lighting Design

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:13:42 PDT

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Just off First Avenue in Seattle, South Jackson Street has high-quality antique stores, art galleries and a few noteworthy showrooms, including Tesla Lighting Design, which offers custom mid-century-style lighting made by local glassblowers and artisans. (via Elements of Living)

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Classic Lighting Emporium

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:07:37 PDT

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On North Second Street in the Old City neighborhood in Philadelphia, the Classic Lighting Emporium is a dizzying showcase for too many chandeliers, table lamps and sconces to count. The pieces represent a kaleidoscope of styles and eras, and homing in on a potential purchase requires concentration. (via Elements of Living)

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Fabric Workshop and Museum

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:05:24 PDT

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Lovers of textiles, take note: Philadelphia is home of the Fabric Workshop, the country’s only museum for contemporary textiles. Founded in 1977, the Fabric Workshop has "developed from an ambitious experiment to a renowned institution with a widely-recognized Artist in Residence Program, an extensive permanent collection of new work created by artists at the Workshop, in-house and touring exhibitions, and comprehensive educational programming including lectures, tours, in-school presentations and student apprenticeships. (via Elements of Living)

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Dane Design

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:02:04 PDT

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The distinction of outfitting MTV’s The Real World: Philadelphia, which was shot in the Old City neighborhood, goes to Dane Design, which sells new, mod-inspired furnishings. (via Elements of Living)

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Susane R. Lifestyle Boutique

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:51:16 PDT

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Located in the heart of the Miami Design District is the Susane R. Lifestyle Boutique. The owner, Susane Ronai, a vivacious redheaded Hungarian, has lived all over the world, and her shop reﬂects the romance and eclecticism of her various ports of call. Over the course of her 14 years in the Design District, she has built up a loyal following of customers who come to her for period lighting and seating and her large assortment of paintings by abstract expressionist A. Dale Nally. (via Elements of Living)

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The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:46:07 PDT

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A tour of the much lauded hotels on Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue in Miami is reason enough to pass through the Art Deco District, but while there make sure you reserve some time to visit the Wolfsonian– Florida International University, the acclaimed museum of decorative arts. Housed in a 1927 Mediterranean Revival storage warehouse, the museum focuses on American and European objects from 1885 to 1945, when profound social, political and technological changes revolutionized the world. Head upstairs to the ﬁfth ﬂoor, where selections from the permanent collection, "Art and Design in the Modern Age," are on view. Paul Frankl’s Skyscraper Bookcase from 1926 echoes the spires of New York’s nascent skyline in alternating levels of dark cabinetry and celebrates the progress assured by these marvelous manmade structures. (via Elements of Living)

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NiBa

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:38:18 PDT

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NiBa is a showroom opened only last December by Holly Hunt veterans Nisi Berryman and Beth Arrowood. Maybe it’s the sparkling acrylic furnishings by Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz or the whimsical chandeliers festooned with feathers and teardrop crystals or the bright hot pillows from Myanmar that Arrowood says they can’t restock fast enough, but walking into NiBa is an instant mood elevator. Carpets are another big seller, and Berryman and Arrowood rolled out their own line last month, featuring natural fabrics to appeal to the more casually inclined South Floridian. (via Elements of Living)

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Stripe

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:27:35 PDT

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Stripe focuses on the fun aspects of what co-owner Eric Cody calls Miami Baroque—Italian chandeliers from the 1950s and 1960s in demand as opulent accents. (via Elements of Living)

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Senzatempo

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:17:29 PDT

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While you’re still ﬂush with Machine Age enthusiasm, head over to Senzatempo (“timeless” in Italian) off Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, the pedestrian mall extending from Alton Road to Washington Avenue. Wolfsonian museum founder Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., is a steady customer of this fun collectibles emporium, an exuberant space stocked by owners Matthew Bain and Massimo Barracca with airplane and train models, watches and clocks, furnishings and accessories. A 23-foot-long wall unit by designer and bon vivant Carlo Mollino is chockablock with assorted treasures. Contemporary designer Omar Ali re-creates the Machine Age in his stainless steel lamps and occasional tables, often made from airplane parts. For those seeking more, more, more, talk to Bain about their private stash. (via Elements of Living)

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Harris Kratz

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:14:21 PDT

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Harris Kratz, which just set up shop this summer, the Dorothy Draper aesthetic rules. Co-owners Paul Kratz and Jay Harris call it referential modernism: Mid-century minimalism, Regency and neoclassical pieces come together as one piece in their showroom. (via Elements of Living)

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Base

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:12:03 PDT

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Base has been a Miami mainstay for 12 years and features a changing assortment of artisan-made home furnishings and ethnic crafts and accessories. Store owner Steven Giles, a self-described hunter-gatherer, traveled to Africa for the ﬁrst time as a dancer with the Béjart Ballet and remains fascinated by the storytelling quality of native crafts. Several years ago, Giles saw a beaded chair made by the Yoruba, an ancient people who live primarily in Nigeria, and he couldn’t get it out of his mind. He ﬁnally caught up with a supply festooned with colorful depictions of animals and ﬁnished in cowrie shells, and recently offered them for sale. (via Elements of Living)

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The Antique Lighthouse

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:07:54 PDT

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The Antique Lighthouse makes an outing to Manayunk in Philadelphia worthwhile. Even this destination, a compound of former textile mills, requires looking closer, as it’s located several huffing blocks up the hill behind Main Street.
Owner Rollin Wilber isn’t a particularly outgoing guy. But get him talking about his work, restoring lamps from the early electric era or converting late-nineteenth-century kerosene-fueled pieces, and he lights up. During our conversation, he offered to show us the room where he and his staff of six ply their trade. (Ask to see the 1,000-square-foot metal shop that’s also on-site.) Among other large pieces in inventory, a recently restored $21,000, 37-light Maria Teresa chandelier with sine-curve arms was dripping with crystals. (via Elements of Living)

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Twist Home

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:57:51 PDT

Recommended by fawnellis on Apr 12, 2006

To open a modern-design store on Antiques Row in Philadelphia, the legendary concentration of golden oldies on Pine Street between 9th and 12th streets, it takes passion as well as chutzpah. And there is plenty of both at Lisa Formica and Sharne Algotsson’s Twist Home, which offers a diverse assortment of household accessories and gifts, ranging from functional plastic pitchers to Indian-fabric print blocks. It’s also a showcase for interior and furniture designer Algotsson, whose updated Victorian- and locally handmade, mid-century-inspired sofas and chairs are on display. (via Elements of Living)

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Harry A. Eberhardt & Son Inc.

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:49:28 PDT

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Echoes of Philadelphia's Pine Street reverberate several blocks away, where, at 2010 Walnut Street, Harry A. Eberhardt & Son Inc. has the ring of authenticity. Established in 1888, Philadelphia’s oldest antique shop is now run by William Eberhardt in an 1856 Italian Renaissance town house, its glorious woodwork and plaster details overshadowed only by the innumerable porcelain and glass pieces lining shelves and floors. Eberhardt sells Japanese cloisonné and Satsuma from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It is also the principal restorer for Lladro pieces; fixing the figurines takes up most of Eberhardt’s time. Your local porcelain restorer probably trained at the side of an Eberhardt or an Eberhardt protégé, and it wouldn’t be overstatement to say this Walnut Street refuge is keeping the craft alive in the United States. How’s that for a sign of preeminence? (via Elements of Living)

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M. Finkel & Daughter

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:46:09 PDT

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If you lust for antiques, M. Finkel & Daughter in Philadelphia is a must-see. This two-story corner gallery specializes in early American and English samplers and silk embroidery. Its walls are crowded with stitched alphabets and landscapes by innumerable schoolgirls and the occasional young man. Morris and daughter Amy are true scholars, and they select only the best works of the period. And that means you have to pay a price to get in on the action. Samplers start around $400 and often go for ten times that amount. The shop also carries American and English furniture, such as faux-figured chests and sets of Klizmos chairs. (via Elements of Living)

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John Alexander

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:42:55 PDT

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Besides the intimate little stores with their troves of treasures, the Chestnut Hill neighborhood in Philadelphia boasts a collection of grand design spaces. John Alexander, for example, occupies a gray stone building that sits squat on a side street. The imposing façade gives way to a loftlike interior filled with natural light and a preeminent collection of British Arts and Crafts furnishings and decorative arts. (via Elements of Living)

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Minima

fawnellis — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:39:27 PDT

Recommended by fawnellis on Apr 12, 2006

For new wares, North Third Street’s Minima is a kind of mini Milan furniture fair. The brightly lit white surfaces of this store cast halos around designs from Cappellini, Kartell and Vitra, among others. (via Elements of Living)

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