The good people at Squint seem to believe we all need a little color in our lives. OK, maybe not a little. They use woven English damasks and shot silver and gold satins with Swarovski rose crystal and pearl detailing. They use rare 18th and …
Articles tagged “Colour”
‘Colour’ or ‘color’, whichever, whatever, it’s back. Having gazed at a good many sites, blogs and trade shows over the last couple of months we believe there is a very strong trend for a greater use of color. It’s evident in outdoors furniture such as …
Furniture
May 19, 2010
Product spotlight. Fortune favours Corita Rose – bold, bright and British.
By Florence von Pelet
Good to see all the nationally themed areas at ICFF last weekend. The Spanish had their tiles, the Germans had their precision, their engineering and, er, cars, and the Brits had elegantly articulated creativity by the the wheelbarrow load. And …
FurnitureInterior Design
May 4, 2010
Product spotlight – Viva la colour, bright Rho chairs from Kannoa and John Kelly Furniture
We saw lots of lovely things at Highpoint and certainly the trend towards natural materials looking natural continues. Lots of washed wood and even drift wood. But in amongst all the warm, natural colours we came across these chairs. As …
Business of design
April 30, 2010
Seeing in Color – Love pie, hate piecharts.
David McCandless is a London-based author, writer and designer. His passion is visualizing information with a minimum of words. He says his pet-hate is pie charts, or in his words ” Love pie. Hate pie-charts.” His site Information is beautiful …
Travel and design
April 17, 2010
Seeing in colour – Seville Orange
Designed by Tarruella & Lopez + Trenchs, the EME Fusion Hotel has won awards and plaudits since it opened in 2008. Right in the middle of our favourite Spanish city its cool, luxurious bedrooms are in contrast to the hotel’s …