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Wednesday, December 30

2010 NICHE Awards are announced by Niche Magazine


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2010 NICHE Awards
Celebrating Excellence and Innovation in American and Canadian Fine Craft
Lotus by Lilach Lotan from Nanaimo, BC ...Category Lamps and Lighting
Until Next Year by James Sagui, West Palm Beach, Fl...Category Furniture

Niche Magazine is the exclusive trade publication for retailers of American Craft and Canadian Craft. For the 2010 NICHE Awards program, jurors selected 161 finalists out of nearly 1000 entries in 36 categories. Here's a link to the Complete List.

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Monday, November 30

Designer Garage - Cyber Monday Gift Ideas for the Car Guy/Gal


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We designed this garage for the person who likes to tinker with toys with motors. This garage also happens to be designed with special outlets for catering companies who will basically install a kitchen in the Garage for large catered parties, thus the restaurant sink. I found the flooring and Cabinets at an web order based company in Chicago called Car Guy Garage. This company has fantastic gift ideas for people into cars. The sink and sprayer are from a commercial restaurant kitchen supplier.  This is a great resource and a very cool site. 






Also Check out this link to Great Books on Ultimate Garages
I know it sounds dorky, but it is really hip.

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Wednesday, November 4

Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale Tonight


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You can register to participate or watch this sale on line live! It's really fascinating to see what great art is fetching evening in these economic times. Go to Sotheby's.


KEES VAN DONGEN
1877-1968
JEUNE ARABE
Signed van Dongen (bottom center): indistinctly inscribed
Arabe Egypte on the stretcher
40 1/8 by 25 3/4 in  102 by 65.5 cm


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Thursday, October 29

A Kitchen Design that is Modern, Hip, Glam...Oh and Functional!


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    We wanted to create a 21st Century look in this mid century modern house. A professional style kitchen that would be "eat in" intimate but also accommodate a staff for larger catered events as well.

The Floors are Italian Silver Travertine. This gray (silver) and brown marble has exactly the perfect warmth and depth of color to coordinate nicely with the quarter sawn oak cabinets and stainless steel appliances and countertops. We used Italian Statuary marble, white with heavy gray veins to contrast  and offset the other materials in the room. Note that the Statuary countertop on the island is one very large piece and it is book matched with the vertical end panels. 
The elliptical table is 1960's Milo Baumann and the Oak Chairs are 1950's Hans Wegner. 1950's' Italian blue gray Glassware.  

The Light Fixtures are from Boyd Lighting in San Francisco. The Professional Dual Fuel Double Oven Range is a 48" Wolf Range with Six Burners and a Griddle.

The kitchen cabinets were built by Henrybuilt in Seattle. We worked closely with Henrybuilt to create a look that blended the modern with the authentic appeal of this mid century home.  We achieved a look for this kitchen that is both sophisticated, modern and technically advanced. We combined horizontal and vertical grained quarter sawn oak panels with stainless steel countertops and appliances. We used linear full length steel pulls that added just the right punctuation. We made custom oak doors with frosted glass panels that concealed the pantries. All built out of oak to be cohesive with the kitchen design. 

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Thursday, October 8

Recycled Aircraft into Houses!


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I was flying low about 2500' along the California Coast from Oceanside to Santa Barbara. Somewhere over Malibu I looked down at a construction site and saw what looked to be like a airline diaster, I couldn't believe my eyes. I circled, took pictures with my iPhone and realized I was looking at house being built using very large aircraft wings and primary structural elements. Googled it when I got home and sure enough. Check out this amazing project. Read about on this incredible project on treehugger.











Courtesy of treehugger


By the way, recycled aircraft are not an invention of the 21st Century.











Courtesy of Tree Hugger


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Wednesday, October 7

I'm a Tubehead


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I always try to avoid seeing any components that drive the media in any room. In this Family Room / Theater. We used two 65" Panasonic Professional Plasma monitors, the same used by NASA! Tucked away in the "Media Closet" is a stack of equipment to run Cox HD Digital Cable, DVD, and Apple T.V. Two Monitors works great whether you watching the game on one monitor and a Sleepless in Seattle just downloaded from the internet. With Apple T.V. you can edit and create great slide shows. The parallel activity not only looks cool, it is a fantastic way to expand the functionality of this room. By the way the lighting and Drapery are controlled from the Phillips Pronto Universal Remote Control.
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In this Master Bedroom we created a custom installation for the Panasonic Profesional Plasma Monitor and installed it behind a specialized mirror and created a custom silver leaf frame around the whole ensemble over walls that are upholstered with Calvin Fabrics linen. The mirror glass is very expensive as were the custom picture frames..so yes, we installed two mirrors, one for the T.V. and the other mirror simply to match because of the symmetrical arrangement of the dressers.
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We did the same installation in a sitting room off the Master Bath.


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Thursday, October 1

Modernism & Glamour in Montecito,California


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We meticulously restored and rebuilt this John Elgin Woolf estate in Montecito. The home was originally designed and built in 1959 for the Huntington family and was teh scene of many Hollywood parties when the estate was purchased by Joan Cohn Harvey. In rebuilding the property we completely respected the glamourous era into which the house was originally built. The modernity of the mid-century was blended with the technology of the 21st century, resulting in an unparalleled sophistication. John Woolf was the creator of the Hollywood Regency Style and had who's who in the film industry client list 1930's-1960's.
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