Toms-Price has a soothing new furniture collection called “Linen Hills”. The bedroom and dining groups incorporate homespun natural fabrics, gentle colors and clean earthy textures and finishes. When I saw “Linen Hills” I remembered a color palette presented by Leatrice Eiseman, for Pantone, at the Chicago Housewares Show. It’s called NONCHALANCE and described this way: [ read more… ]
One of the new 2012 home-inspired color palletes, explored by Leatrice Eiseman for Pantone, is called “Comic Book”. I took these display photos (click to enlarge) at the recent Chicago Housewares Show. The use of black, especially as outlining, is very comicbook-like, shown in this jewel rug from our Wheaton rug gallery. These words were [ read more… ]
Mysterious, royal and now very modern, blue velvet evokes an emotional response when you enter the room. The Marshall chair, above, is by Barclay Butera. Great tufting really emphasizes the beautiful way light plays on velvet. Love the back button tufting and the single long seat cushion on this Kip’s Bay sofa from Stickley.
