With Holiday entertaining on the horizon, we focus on dining rooms and share with you some recent finds for inspiration. Create a comfortable and casual dining nook with mix and match Windsor chairs, farm table and window banquette loaded with upholstered down pillows. The conversation piece is the festive wine bottle lighting. For a casual yet elegant approach
Saying goodbye to summer doesn't have to be a sentimental ending when you consider it's also a beginning - the kick off to autumn and the holiday season. The promise of fall is in the air. It's a great time to dress up your home for fall entertaining; whether that means friends gathered around the television
Alexis Audette, Vice President and Creative Director at Beacon Hill fabrics On November 14th, Alexis Audette, the Vice President and Creative Director for Beacon Hill, came to Creative Wallcoverings & Interiors in New Providence, NJ, and presented the new fabric collection Ankasa: Legacy to an enthusiastic group of Interior Designers and clients. Beacon Hill has
As the thermometer dips, Reds, Golds and Oranges are warming up this autumn. These welcoming hues bring warmth and comfort and add a little spice to your home and hearth. D E S I G N D I S C O V E R I E S The changing colors of leaves can provide inspiration for interior decor,
Pets will love the sense of shelter provided by the shell and the clean simple design pleases people. The pod is made from birch plywood, with choice of veneer. Dog Pod is truly an iconic piece. Dimensions: 20" wide, 20" deep and 21" tall. Furniture designer Luke Wong created Doca Pet™ in order to provide modern products for
Reflections on Good Taste Some of the earliest mirrors were made of obsidian, stone, copper and bronze. Metal-coated glass mirrors are said to have been invented in Sidon (modern-day Lebanon) in the first century AD. Glass mirrors backed with gold leaf are mentioned by the Roman author Pliny in his Natural History, written in about 77 AD. Here are some
A rare vintage find! This fine example of Fortuny textiles, is a one-of-a-kind roll that measures 10+ yards in length. The Mazzarino pattern incorporates urns of flowers, charming monkeys and lions in the design. Mazzarino Pattern . . . Fortuny fabric is still produced in the same factory on the island of Giudecca in Venice, on the
MAYA BLUE Maya blue is a stunning azure pigment used as early as the year 800. It’s made of plants, dyes and clays, and it hasn’t lost it’s beautiful blue luster over time. THE BLUE ROOM You can say you have arrived, or at the very least your home has when its rooms have their own
A few of our favorite blue designs from our very own Creative Wallcoverings and Interiors (CW&I) collections.
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths / Enwrought with golden and silver light / The blue and the dim and the dark cloths / Of night and light and the half light… If you’re wondering what this Yeats passage has to do with lighting your home, the answer is probably almost nothing. It’s not the poem
