This just in: HGTV’s Summer Baltzer, host of “Design On A Dime,” is interviewed on boston.com, and what, of all things, does she say? Gray is the new black (or, I guess since black was never, you know, black in interior design, it’s the new something else, like raspberry)
Anyway, she’s saying that gray is the [...]

This week, we’re featuring these great kitchen chairs, sent in by Stylehound’s own Wedding Belle. Seems she was able to score these two vintage Shaw-Walkers.

One note about buying vintage kitchen chairs: before investing, see if anyone is currently making knock-offs. If so, you’re in business, because then when you’re ready to add to your collection, [...]

This is too good to keep to ourselves. If you have a space problem and need instant furniture that you can then fold up and put away, check this out. http://flexiblelove.com/
Or, you can see a whole article on this at
http://www.sheffield.edu/htmlsrc/greendesign0209.html

Okay, how many of you out there have even heard of “industrial modernist”? well, now’s your chance to get the sense of it. We love this lamp from Design Within Reach—it’s like a praying mantis with a light in its head. You can read more about it and see more of their things at http://www.dwr.com/product/lighting/floor/fortuny-lamp.do?sortby=ourPicks [...]

The Sheffield School is proud to show off the work of their top students with their very own gallery.  Each student has a slideshow of floor plans, drawings, and materials boards.  These design projects are the result of hard work and many an inspirational idea! Start your creative juices flowing by viewing their design [...]

This just in: the recession has moved northward, and with it concern about its effects on home improvements. Here’s a great article from Toronto’s CTV news, from the February 7 Interior Design Show there.
(photo from Toronto CTV)
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090215/EDM_
recession_design_090215/20090215/?hub=TorontoNewHome

For the past few weeks, we here at the Sheffield School have been busy tweeting away on Twitter. Along with exchanging interesting news and ideas on interior design, Feng Shui and event planning, we recently handed over our Twitter account for three days to a Wedding Planner as she prepares for a Valentine’s Day wedding.
We [...]

Tomorrow, February 12, is the birthday of Charles Darwin, and it’s also the sesquicentennial of the publication of his book, The Origin of Species.Evolution: the idea that species evolve from previous species. Kind of like design.Let’s hear some examples of this.How about how the Wegner wishbone dining chair, asevolved from the Windsor chair? (photo [...]

Remember the laptop disguised as an evening bag? (If not, scroll down).
Here’s another laptop we love; this one makes you feel you’re an heiress or a baron or something.
It’s the “Steampunk Laptop” from Data Mancer,which bills itself as offering “Prestidigital Datamancery & Paraphrenalic Techofetishism.”
You can see more of their wildly designed things at: [...]

Last week, we broke the news to you about Domino magazine tumbling down the chute of financial catastrophe, falling fast on the heels of Pier I and Levitz Furniture, which are going out of business altogether, and perhaps preceding Sharper Image and the esteemed (and 99-year-old) Ethan Allen Interiors, which are shutting down [...]