Features Claude Monet collection
AT THE MARKET -- Case goods manufacturer Habersham has redesigned its High Point showroom in Market Square, space 142, to display two new lifestyles and a new licensed group for the Claude Monet collection.
Monet's Journeys has more than 20 pieces inspired by the painter's works and his extensive travels. The collection features a grand-scale entertainment center, bookcases and occasional furniture that draw from the Impressionist painter's trips from the Normandy coast to retreats along the Mediterranean Sea.
The first collection, introduced in 2000, was inspired by Monet's famed home in Giverny, France.
"The new direction for the collection provides the design team with a rich palette of masterworks, landscapes and styles," said Tom Skipper, vice president of sales and marketing. "We are able to create truly unique designs that invite today's consumer to bring an Impressionistic touch of color, texture and casually elegant styling into their homes."
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Products will appear in a new home on the set.
Beginning with the April 22 episode, ABC's Sunday night hit series, Desperate Housewives, will feature 16 products from Norcross, Ga.-based Sterling Industries. Most of the products will decorate the home of a new character, Victor, who does not live on Wisteria Lane, but is in pursuit of Gabrielle, who does. However, a pair of Sterling's candlesticks will be going into Gabrielle's home.
After visiting Sterling's Los Angeles showroom a couple of months ago, a buyer for the show took a catalog back to the set designer who, according to Sterling showroom manager Andrea Dial, prefers to shop by catalog.
"The designer looked at every page, marking what she wanted and what 'room' it was to be used in," Dial said. "She then sent the buyer back to the showroom to place the order. Because the buyer saw the high quality of our merchandise in the showroom, she was able to help the set designer understand how beautiful the pieces would look on film."
A list of the products may be viewed on Sterling's Web site (mysterlinghome.com) along with details of a promotion in which a discount will be applied toward purchases of eight or more of the items on the Desperate Housewives product list.
Source: Home Accents Today
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The retrospective exhibition "Bruno Mathsson: Architect and Designer," opening today at The Bard Graduate Center, consists of approximately 150 examples of furniture, photographs, architectural drawings and models installed chronologically on three floors. It's a show that starts strong but peters out halfway through, a strikingly accurate metaphor of Mathsson's own unstable projection as a designer over the course of the 20th century.
For the most part, Mathsson's designs are solid, though far from ground breaking. They split the difference between inspired form and dutiful function, between a traditionally trained cabinetmaker's desire to tinker and perfect, with design ideas distilled from more radical pioneers such as Marcel Breur, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier and the earlier example of Thonet. Mathsson was one of the main proponents of the Swedish Modern style that emerged in the 1930's, and his pieces incorporate its distinctive characteristics, such as lightweight organic materials, use of clean simple lines, and a lack of overstyling -- qualities echoed in the restrained, well-balanced, uniform nature of Swedish society itself. However, most of his designs fail to transcend the innovation of their construction, and are held firmly in the realm of technical prowess, disallowing them to become more essential design statements.
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Marlon Brando's heirs are suing a Canadian furniture company after making the company an offer it refused.
The late actor's family has been trying for months to get Palliser Furniture Ltd. to stop marketing a line of plush home theater chairs dubbed the Brando without a licensing agreement.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeks unspecified damages but claims sales of the chair "exceed several million dollars on a worldwide basis."
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