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As Spring foliage blooms around us, I am inspired by the spirit of renewal and rejuvenation. In this month’s edition of Design Maestro, I discuss how our living spaces should reflect not only personal style, but also personal growth. Focusing on the great outdoors, a fresh new color palette, and a photo-ready furniture arrangement, I share several playful ways to explore and embrace the seasonal changes.
Alex Woogmaster is a visionary designer and a man with undeniable taste. He grew up obsessing over castles and Baroque palaces. His taste was always grand. Those classical influences are woven throughout his work, from his days working for Wynn Design & Development, designing Las Vegas hotels, through the formation of his own firm, Woogmaster Studios, where their work runs the gamut from megavillas to yachts and where the lines between home and hospitality are increasingly blurred.
Last week the Pacific Design Center hosted their annual Spring Market in West Hollywood, where the West Coast’s premier luxury interior designers and vendors gather for state-of-the-industry panel discussions and fireside chats, and where showrooms were awash with feminine curves, moody palettes, edgy accents, and lots and lots of texture.
Can we tell the stories of our lives through color? Executive Editor Julie A. Palm discovers an engaging new podcast, “The Chromologist” from Farrow & Ball, which aims to do just that, talking to designers, artists and others about their personal color chronologies. It’s worth a listen.
April 18 2024 sees the launch of Little Greene’s ‘Sweet Treats’, a curated collection of warm, neutral shades of honey, caramel and chocolate, each color inspired by delicious desserts and some of the worlds most tasteful sweet treats.
Brooklyn-based design firm Almost Studio recently completed their latest project, a Loft for a Chocolatier. The historic chocolate factory was originally built in 1947 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, along Myrtle Avenue.
Architect Kevin Ervin Kelley discuss the future of retail design, gender preferences in design, why we get exhausted in furniture stores, and his new book, Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together
Change tends to happen slowly and then all at once. Our industry is working on diversity inclusion; I suggest we hasten the pace. Let’s burn the box and design from the ashes. Let’s find inspiration that we cannot see without diverse perspectives. We are doing ourselves an injustice by not substantially including people from various races and ethnic backgrounds to help us take the industry we love to the next level.
There’s a lot to do in High Point before the furniture market officially opens on Saturday, April 13. As you are planning your trip, consider adding some of the events on Friday, April 12, to your schedule to make the most of your springtime in North Carolina.
MARTINSVILLE, VA – March 2024 – Hooker Furnishings has announced a new approach to merchandising…