June 2011
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Designer Spotlight : Julie Gaillard
Right-side Nightstand in sustainable ash wood by Julie Gaillard.
We met the talented Julie Gaillard at Les Cocottes exhibit for Paris “Designer Days” last Saturday where she showed her first collection of designs for the home.
Originally an advertising creative, she studied at the renown Parisian design school l’école Boulle and started working as an interior designer for...
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Jean-Michel Frank, Paris favorite designer →
Every self-respecting collector of blue-chip 20th-century design these days owns at least a piece or two by Jean-Michel Frank. The Parisian elite’s favorite interior designer in the 1920s and ’30s, Frank specialized in what connoisseurs call luxe pauvre—“impoverished luxury.” He’d wrap spindly, minimalist tables or chairs in rarefied materials—goatskin, vellum, glittery mica—to look modern,...
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On Chevron patterns
West Elm’s fall 2011 Organic Chevron duvet cover. $89 for the Queen size.
Zara Home’s ikat chevron David rug. 170x240cm. 100€
Ikea’s HESSUM Chevron door mat 60x40cm. 2,50€ / 2x1’4 inch. $4.99
Jonathan Adler’s Bargelo Chevron pillow. 22x22inch $175. (also avail. in blue)
West Elm’s fine lines Hand-blocked Chevron pillow cover....
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This weekend: Paris "Designer Days"
This year’s theme “conversations” is an invitation to meet with designers, architects and scholars at Paris top design stores, schools and galleries (B&B, Baccarat, Hermès, Roche Bobois, Ecole Boulle, l’Institut Suédois, Les Arts Décoratifs…)
Check out all the participating locations here and the agenda for special events listings here.
Designer’s Days:...
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