Designer Insight

March 19, 2010 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Allan Copley Designs announced that two of its designs were featured in the Bloomingdale’s 2010 Window Challenge – the Snowmass bookcase and the Excel coffee table, both of which are sold in Bloomingdale’s stores. The challenge recently took place in the flagship New York City store, and involved interior designers from Bloomingdale’s, Apartment Therapy, and Elle Décor. Each designer created a model living space to be displayed in the store’s windows using Bloomingdale’s furniture.

Apartment Therapy’s designer, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, included the Allan Copley Excel coffee table in his dark, amorous den ...Read More

March 18, 2010 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Today, from 2-3 p.m., 7W New York is hosting a Designer Day event at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show as part of the citywide New York Design Festival. Robyn Waters, a consumer trend and tracking expert, will present The Power of Paradox on Center Stage at Pier 94 (12th Ave. and 55th St.). Target’s former vice president of trend, design and product development, Waters will give attendees an overview of today’s “contradictory” consumer by exploring influential trends and countertrends. The event is free and open to all show attendees.

Moving 7W’s spring Designer Day event to Piers ties in with a new exhibit that the building is c...Read More

February 22, 2010 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

The best sustainable furnishings design entry submitted in this year's Pinnacle awards competition will be honored with the Green Leaf, a new award from The American Society of Furniture Designers. 

One winner will be chosen for the Green Leaf among three finalists. Entries for the sustainable award may be in any of the 15 product categories recognized in the Pinnacle competition.

"We believe that the addition of the green award is a natural and logical extension to the Pinnacle Awards and of what we think good design can represent," said Dudley Moore, furniture designer and Pinnacle chair.

Entries considered for the Green Leaf will be reviewed by the regular panel of Pinnacle judges and also by th...Read More

February 21, 2010 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Hermine Mariaux will present “Maison & Objet Defines Home Trends for 2010” this Thursday morning, Feb. 25th at the New York Design Center in New York City. This visual program, presented in conjunction with the New York Chapter of the International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA), will focus on Mariaux’s recent trip to the Paris show with highlights of products, fabrics and color trends.  

An industry branding and licensing professional, Hermine reports regularly to the trade and has been a writer and editor for The New York Times, House & Garden and Town and Country magazines. She has also developed and marketed home collections for designers including Cal...Read More

February 18, 2010 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Holger Nielsen's original Vipp wastebin from 1939 has been added to the Museum of Modern Art’s Architecture and Design collection in New York.

“Good design never goes out of fashion," Nielsen used to say, and time would prove him right. The Vipp bin has changed little in design and materials since it was crafted in 1939 in Holger’s workshop in Denmark. Both the original and the updated version are now part of MoMA’s collection. The Vipp bin is available in stores throughout the world including MoMA stores.

Product facts: Vipp pedal bin (14 liters / 4 gal), $319, available in white, stainless steel and limited edition, dealers at vipp....Read More