Labor Day weekend…sigh. A few more summer-inspired places before we tumble into fall.
There’s a TV ad that shows dozens of people crammed in an auditorium, all reaching for their cell phones at the same time. Little “wireless” labels start to appear over their heads as they connect their calls, illustrating how dependent we’ve become on our invisible connections. Most of us can remember when the idea of [ read more… ]
By any measure, the rug industry has exploded in the past several decades. Once a highly specialized expression of local culture, hand-made rugs have become a metaphor for the new global economy. Traditional designs have been reinterpreted to coordinate with current colors and trends, and new designs that owe no debt to tradition at all [ read more… ]
I generally don’t spend a lot of time in the design studio looking at fabrics. My focus, of necessity, is on what exists in the present, so I don’t often look at the special order possibilities. I indulged myself the other day, however, and as I rifled through the rows of samples I was struck [ read more… ]
Real life needs space for the messes that go with it, but they don’t have to be your focal point. Give your room a chance to show its best side. You’ll feel better about yourself. Some of the “toy chests” being made these days would work well in ANY room. This black one is only [ read more… ]
Think about your home. If every time you enter a room you are irritated by the mess in your path or the overflowing trunk full of toys, try rearranging your sight lines so that these are not the first things your eye notices. Make your “vanishing point” a place to showcase your most attractive artwork [ read more… ]
Every space has a point of entry, a perspective from which it will most often be viewed. Like the vanishing point in perspective drawings, sight lines draw the eye to the back of the space, the end of the road. Figuring out where those are and how to use them to draw the viewer further [ read more… ]
