Fri 10 Jul 2009
DesignFind: Global Design Events Calendar
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Fri 10 Jul 2009
Wed 8 Jul 2009
Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of Media-mouths, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers. Take a look at the current covers of Architectural Digest and Metropolitan Home and let us know your opinion. Continue reading Mon 6 Jul 2009
Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ Los Angeles interior designer James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.
This week on the DesignCoach: No Money and an Ugly Kitchen; What To Do? Mon 6 Jul 2009
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Bergere: A bergère is an enclosed upholstered French armchair (fauteuil) with an upholstered back and armrests on upholstered frames. The seat frame is over-upholstered, but the rest of the wooden framing is exposed: it may be moulded or carved, and of beech painted or gilded or of fruitwood, walnut or mahogany with… Continue reading Fri 3 Jul 2009
Fri 3 Jul 2009
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GADROONING: A row of concave or convex flutes applied along the edge of a surface to make it more decorative. A Classical motif used throughout the 18th century on furniture pieces and decorative objects… Continue reading Thu 2 Jul 2009
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TULA FURNITURE: Cut steel furniture produced by Russia's Tula's Imperial Armory. Founded in 1712, Tula supplied Catherine the Great with an eclectic range of cut-steel objects… Continue reading Wed 1 Jul 2009
Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of Media-mouths, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers. Take a look at the current covers of Veranda and Traditional Home and let us know your opinion. Continue reading Mon 29 Jun 2009
Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ Los Angeles interior designer James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.
This week on the DesignCoach: Are we re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?. Fri 26 Jun 2009
Wed 24 Jun 2009
Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of Media-mouths, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers. Take a look at the current covers of Metropolitan Home and Elle Decor and let us know your opinion. Continue reading Mon 22 Jun 2009
Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ Los Angeles interior designer James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.
This week on the DesignCoach: How Can I Afford the Curtains of My Dreams. Fri 19 Jun 2009
Wed 17 Jun 2009
Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of Media-mouths, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers. Take a look at the current covers of The World of Interiors and Architectural Digest and let us know your opinion. Continue reading Mon 15 Jun 2009
Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ Los Angeles interior designer James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.
This week on the DesignCoach: Coping with a challenging space. Fri 12 Jun 2009
Design Find is your global guide to upcoming home shows, furniture, art & antique fairs, and designer show houses. Continue reading Mon 1 Jun 2009
DesignCoach: What to watch? Home Improvement Shows?
Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ Los Angeles Interior Designer James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.… Continue reading Tue 26 May 2009
Webster’s Dictionary defines joy as “the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying.” The kind folk at Webster’s are, however, no help to us as we ponder the size or scale of a thing which might be considered “good or satisfying” and thus could stir in us the emotion of joy. So left to our own devices we must decide. What’s the tipping point in a things scale or size that allows us to celebrate the defined emotion?… Continue reading Mon 25 May 2009

Fri 22 May 2009
Wed 20 May 2009
Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of MediaMouths, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers. Take a look at the current covers of House Beautiful and Traditional Home and let us know your opinion. Continue reading Tue 19 May 2009
Surviving the Times; Things to Edit from Your Home
Whether with the assistance of auction specialists; Craigs List or the nearest curb, it seems people everywhere are simplifying their lives by divesting themselves of “things” they no longer require. Its funny how moments ago the “need” to posses lured us all down a path of consumption that now feels slightly embarrassing. That’s all right. You are not alone.… Continue reading Mon 18 May 2009
Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ Los Angeles interior designer James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach™ can help you find the solution.
This week on the DesignCoach: What’s wrong with white walls? Fri 15 May 2009
Design Find is your global guide to interior design events, designer show houses, antique & art fairs, and home & garden shows. Continue reading Wed 13 May 2009
Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of MediaMouths, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers. Take a look at the current covers of Architectural Digest and Veranda and give us your opinions. Continue reading