July 2009


Design Find is your global guide to upcoming home shows, furniture, art & antique fairs, and designer show houses. (more…)

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 Traditional Home and Metropolitan Home and let us know your opinion. (more…)

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: President Obama and His ‘Mom-Jeans’: Lessons We Can Learn
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Design Find is your global guide to upcoming home shows, furniture, art & antique fairs, and designer show houses. (more…)

Every Wednesday, in our blog installment of MediaMouths™, we ask our readers to critique a pair of leading shelter magazine covers. (more…)

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: …And You Think Health Care Reform is Difficult; Try Selecting a New Sofa!
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Design Find is your global guide to upcoming home shows, furniture, art & antique fairs, and designer show houses. (more…)

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 Elle Decor and let us know your opinion. (more…)

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 Can We Learn From Sarah Palin?.
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Design Find is your global guide to upcoming home shows, furniture, art & antique fairs, and designer show houses. (more…)

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 Metropolitan Home and let us know your opinion. (more…)

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? (more…)

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Bergere Chair

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 a waxed finish.

Design Find is your global guide to upcoming home shows, furniture, art & antique fairs, and designer show houses. (more…)

Add to your Design knowledge and increase your Design vocabulary Check out the IDQ Daily Dose.

Gadrooned Table

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.

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Tula_Center_Table_Detail_1

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.

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 Veranda and Traditional Home and let us know your opinion. (more…)