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Posts Tagged ‘Nathan Turner’
Top Interior Designers Decorate Beverly Hills Mansion
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Please enjoy the opening night videos of Maison de Luxe from our friends at Editor At Large featuring huge design stars like Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Mary McDonald, Nathan Turner, Jaime Drake , Holly Hunt, Jeffrey Alan Marks , Phillip Gorrivan and me!
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Well, West Elm’s Figured it Out
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
In the mid-priced budget, there’s less and less need for a professional designer when retailers like West Elm have nailed a look that reflects a well lived and traveled life.
Have you seen their latest catalogue? It looks like they robbed Nathan Turner’s shop to be able to offer their latest items at such affordable prices. Add that West Elm is at the forefront of pushing retail one step further to help sustainable products go mainstream as a growing number of their items are 100% green and there’s little reason go elsewhere.
For years I’ve been teaching designers and the public about eco-friendly and healthy resources. Lately my push has been for awareness of the people who make the goods we buy. West Elm’s latest partnership is with Aid to Artisans. I’m terribly impressed that a huge retailer has realized a way to profit and create economic opportunities for artisan groups around the world.
This season they are focusing on All India Artisans and Craftworkers Welfare Association. The Indian women’s yarn co-op creates one of a kind, hand loomed and hand woven pillow and throws without the use of any electricity. Pieces from Stray Dog Designs can also be found at West Elm. Stray Dog Designs has been an enormous part of pre and post Haitian Earthquake artisan commerce among a lengthy, charitable, corporate agenda .
With Certified 100% Organic Cotton textiles for bedding and bath, FSC certified furniture and accessories that are rapidly renewable, reclaimed or recycled, chic and totally within your budget, West Elm has NAILED IT.
Add the new collaboration with A-List Design partners like Allegra Hicks, Benjamin Moore and David Stark and it’s clear that West Elm has made the taste for champagne on a beer entirely possible.
I’m not saying you’ll be able to pass their furniture on to future generations, but clearly West Elm understands a green, triple bottom line. They’ve got great style and you can feel good (physically, socially, mentally) about what you buy from them.
Tags: affordable interior design, aid to artisans, all india artisans and craftworkers welfare association, Allegra Hicks, bedding and bath products, Benjamin Moore, certified 100% organic cotton textiles, David Stark, eco-friendly, FSC certified furiture, green, Nathan Turner, reclaimed, recyclable, renewable, Stray Dog Designs, sustainable, triple green bottom line, west elm
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Top Interior Designers Selected for Greystone Mansion Showcase
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
Getting ready to settle into a relaxing Fourth of July weekend, I kicked back and opened the latest issue of LUXE. Then I saw it, my name in the first, official ad for the Greystone Mansion Showcase House. What a way to start the holiday!
LUXE Maison de Luxe has chosen over 20 top leading designers from all over the world to participate in this fall’s show house for the historic Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. You can imagine how excited I am to be included. This event is one of the largest and most majestic show houses in the country and is sure to be awe-inspiring.
Lori Dennis
HGTV and my show The Real Designing Women will be following the action, along with celebrity friends like Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, Nathan Turner and Mary McDonald from Bravo’s “Million Dollar Decorator.”
Any reputable showcase designer list would include the old gaurd and this one is no exception. You’ll see legends like Hutton Wilkinson, Jamie Drake, Barry Dixon and Suzanne Rheinstein.
My Fabulous Friend Hutton Wilkinson
Colorful Jaime Drake
Lady Suzzane Rheinstein
Lord of the Manor Barry Dixon
Built in 1928, this Baronial-style estate is over 46,000 square feet with 18.5 manicured acres of land. It’s our city’s most famous palace and certainly rivals those of Rhode Island Coasts.
Show House Tour runs November 4-20, 2011 and Designer Lecture Series are November 4, 11 and 18. For more information, Please visit www.beverlyhills.org/maisondeluxe.
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