As seen in Dutch Magazine Eigen Huis & Interieur, ceramic designs by Anne Tophøj. The Danish ceramicist creates a number of refined and traditional collections as in the scalloped plates below but we love this new design called Fictile 12.1 especially. Fictile means “shaped in …
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Agnes Jones, artist and blacksmith from The Crafts Council Hot House
We are featuring our pick of The Crafts Council‘s Hot House group. The Crafts Council are the British organization which has been supporting crafts people for forty years. Under its Hot House scheme a select group will be receiving six months of intense creative and …
Artists are allowed to be edgy, in fact, we want them to be. There has to be a story here, we want there to be crisis or anger or distress. In Mark Evan’s case we hope he isn’t too angry …
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Designer Spotlight Series: Dominic Fusco – Eclectic Glamour
Modenus caught up with the much in demand, Fairfield County Connecticut based, interior designer Dominic Fusco to learn more about his distinctive style, his influences and plans for the near future. M. I enjoyed your style which seems to be …
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The Best Of | The Modern Sybarite | My Design “Crush” Brian J. McCarthy
By Florence von Pelet
An alumni of the famed Parish-Hadley design studio that produced so many of today’s well-known designers in the U.S., Brian J. McCarthy is in the league with the crème de la crème of interior designers worldwide. His classic overall style tends towards …
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If you go down to the woods today – Sebastian Cox master of coppiced Hazel
If you go down to the woods today you may, just possibly, run into Sebastian Cox. Together with a group of his friends, a pocket full of sandwiches and a flask of tea he may be gathering the raw material …
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Designer Spotlight: Michelle Jennings Wiebe – a passion for design
Studying images of interiors designed by Michelle Jenings Wiebes and her phenomenally successful, Tampa based Studio M is like wandering through an art gallery. There is something about the way in which she crafts light, form, texture and color which …
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Jorge Simes – master of Eglomisé, creator of beauty
Jorge Simes likes to change his mind. This is something he is proud of. “I change my mind a million times – and not explain. I change constantly until I am satisfied.” And that may be the essence of what …
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Designer Spotlight Series: Gail Shields-Miller, New York City eclectic
Tribal-inspired living room with brown limestone floor and African cocktail table. Michael Stratton Photography. The publications Gail Shields-Miller’s work has been featured in read like a who’s who in shelter mags with projects of her New York City based company …
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Designer Spotlight Series: Jerry Jacobs – permanent style and class
Grand room of 5,000 sq. ft. full-floor apartment. The loft style space has living, dining and study areas all in one large room with 13 ft ceilings. Previously featured on Modenus French food can be a wonderful thing but it …
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Jeffrey Brooks Interior Design – a master of emotion from New Jersey
“You know how Justin Timberlake brought ‘sexy’ back to music? Well I want to bring ‘sexy and intimate’ back to interior design.” So says Jeffrey Brooks of Jeffrey Brooks Interior Design. And then he laughs. And throughout the interview we …
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Designer Spotlight Series: Nyla Free – Calgary interior designer with a sense of detail
(Lori Andrews Photography) Nyla Free is a designer who gets the details right. When you look at her work there is a sense of nothing being left to be done. Her mastery of finishing touches combines with a sense of …
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Designer Spotlight: Donna Grace McAlear – New Mood Design of Atlanta
There is something very distinctive about interiors designed by Donna Grace McAlear. It is instantly apparent but it took me a while to define. Her rooms have a remarkable confidence; the space is balanced, comfortable and functions well. In her …
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Erinn Valencich – the big life
Ashton Kutcher Showhouse Erinn Valencich bristles with energy. “I always wanted a big life” she told us during a recent interview, ”I wanted to make people’s lives better. And interior design is how she does it. “I never would have …
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Via ACHICA Living: Meet Godfather of Design – Sir Terence Conran
Modenus is proud to share this post by ACHICA Living, the UK based blog for ACHICA, the members-only luxury lifestyle site. The talented team of journalists and design writers at ACHICA living frequently feature interviews with celebrity designers and are …
Picture this: a long winding road leads up to a perfectly appointed house set on six lovely acres near a pond in Lincoln, MA. Outside it’s raining and dark, inside it’s sunny and warm because we are in the home …
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Jamie Beckwith – Southern hospitality and then some…
By JocelynHutt
Jamie Beckwith is many things; mother to three young children, interior designer (Beckwith Interiors), showroom owner, designer and manufacturer of exquisite wood flooring – all rolled into one gorgeous Southern gal package. Jamie’s flooring products are fairly new to the …
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Things Modenus loves – Marcel Wanders (swoon)…..
…but this isn’t about Marcel, I promise we will follow up very soon with a blog about or even an interview with the stunningly gorgeous, stunningly talented Marcel Wanders; this is about his equally swoon worthy Jardin d’Eden flatware collection …