I apologize for not posting this on Thursday as I had initially planned but blogger was down until Friday afternoon. You can imagine my surprise when I could not access my blog. Then, I had an internal freak out because I thought I lost everything I wrote after it took me a year to launch this. Wednesday morning I attended the keynote of the Spring Market at the Decoration and Design Building, titled What's Next in Decorating? hosted by, Deborah Needleman, Editor in Chief of the Wall Street Journal's monthly magazine WSJ and Off Duty. The panelists included were WSJ Columnist Sara Ruffin Costello, Contributing Editor and Decorator David Netto, and Decorator Miles Redd. There was not an empty seat in the house and I can confidently say that the seats were filled by accredited design industry professionals rather than the non-industry grazers or hoovers who attend the showroom sponsored events during market. (Q: What is a grazer/hoover? A: People who attend events strictly for the food and drink and have absolutely no interest in ever purchasing merchandise. The saying "There is no such thing as a free lunch." is N/A for this group.) My original plans were to use this post to write about the highlights from the discussion but a former business associate (no longer former but current) contacted me to request a product image from the company I was previously working for to post on his blog, furnitureandhomefashion.com. (That aforementioned company did not communicate to any of our business associates that I had left the company. I think they did that in order to continue to evade the numerous phone calls I had to take and the emails I continue to receive regarding bill payments. That is also how I found out that they are looking for my replacement. The job is listed as a manager and not a director but I compared it to the job description in the ad I replied to a little less than three years ago, and it is the exact same. You get what you pay for.) After I explained that I was no longer working there, congratulated him on his recent successes and his blog, and told him I launched this blog, he invited me to write a post on his blog. Since furnitureandhomefashion.com is a blog devoted to all things interior design I am going to use that post to write about each of the panelists choices for seminal rooms and style leaders. I will give you a head's up the day the post goes live. Today's post is going to focus on one of the trends called out during last week's discussion, COLOR BLOCKING. I know. I was thinking the same thing. We are all so over color blocking. Mondrian-inspired graphic prints. Been there done that. And if you saw the September Issue then you know that unless you can reinvent it like Grace Coddington can, then Anna Wintour isn't doing it either. But what if color blocking was reinterpreted in new and exciting ways that made you go hmmm. Or, what Debra Needleman referred to as an Aha moment. When a designer integrates that one and or a few surprising elements into a room like a bold stroke of color. So, I set out to find my Aha moments and I was successful. I started searching for Robert Capucci, one of the designers that Miles Redd said inspired him, specifically how he integrates color, art, and fashion into his work. Wow! You really do learn something everyday and I wish I knew who Robert Capucci was years ago because he definetly is inspiring. His creations are incredible. This is just one of the images from the exhibit, Robert Capucci: Art into Fashion, currently on display until June 5, 2011, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I was on my own from there and this what I found.
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Color Blocking
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