Articles in the General Posts Category

New Designer Monthly now live: All That Glitters!
By Caroline Wolfe Papocchia
Posted in General Posts on 1 September 2010
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September is a month that stands out on the calendar as a post-summer revitalization:  a time for new fashion, new enterprises, and a new season. This month we decided to pay homage to the star that is the ninth month, and the September Designer Monthly is chock full of sparkles, shine, and so much more.  [...]

Chilling at Designer Monthly
By alexia rossetti
Posted in General Posts, Jewelry on 10 August 2010
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The hot and hazy summer days may have sapped your strength but at Designer Monthly, we’ve found several ways to chill and relax. In our Little Things column, you’ll want to kick off your shoes and rest on these colorful poufs. Through feng shui, you can energize your ch’i with wind chimes.  With all this [...]

Designer Monthly Dives In
By Caroline Wolfe Papocchia
Posted in General Posts on 19 July 2010
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It’s July and it’s hot, so this month’s Designer Monthly is focused on our favorite antidote: the ocean, in all its cool blue glory.

We kick off the issue with a special interview with Adele McGann, and continue with great articles inspired by the sea. Shades of blue and green make their way into our pieces [...]

Designer Monthly Al Fresco
By alexia rossetti
Posted in General Posts on 17 June 2010
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Our latest Designer Monthly is exploring the outdoors in the Green/Gardens edition.  This month, we’re designing our backyards and balconies, lighting it all up, and celebrating garden weddings.
Then we bring all the green indoors and apply feng shui through various indoor plants.  And to make our homes truly green, we check out eco-friendly paints to [...]

Entertaining Baby
By stylehound
Posted in General Posts on 1 June 2010
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The mobile is so ubiquitous it’s hard to imagine someone inventing it, and yet Alexander Calder is credited with coming up with the idea of having a moving sculpture hanging from a ceiling—and a generation of happy babies was born. The mobile transitioned quickly from being a creative moment of modernism to being a must-have [...]

Springing for the latest Designer Monthly
By Caroline Wolfe Papocchia
Posted in General Posts on 14 May 2010
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Despite overcast skies in New York City today, the air is warm and the promise of a sunny weekend is on everyone’s mind. As they say, Spring has officially sprung, and here at Sheffield we are celebrating.
The May issue of Designer Monthly is now live over on the homepage and if you haven’t checked it [...]

‘Twas quilling: the art of Yulia Brodskaya
By Caroline Wolfe Papocchia
Posted in Design - General, General Posts, I Want One on 7 May 2010
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If you have never seen the work of renowned and revered Russian artist Yulia Brodskaya, you are surely missing out. Brodskaya, a native of Moscow who now resides in England, hand-crafts one of a kind art pieces from paper and glue.
Sound simple? Think again.
Brodskaya combines a talent for quilling - the decorative art of coiling, [...]

Hecho in Mexico!
By Caroline Wolfe Papocchia
Posted in General Posts on 12 April 2010
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The latest issue of Designer Monthly is now live over on the Sheffield website! With a little spring in the air here in New York, we simply could not resist the temptation of the tropical. So this month we have focused on Mexico; everything from design inspirations to a look at traditional celebrations.
Check it out! [...]

25th Anniversary Designer Monthly
By Zadie Heller
Posted in Events, General Posts on 3 March 2010
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The Sheffield School has been educating students in Interior Design now for 25 years.  More recently, we’ve added our Feng Shui Course and our Wedding and Event Planning Course.  And this march, we are officially kicking off the 25th Anniversary Celebration with a brand new edition of Designer Monthly.
In this month’s list of articles, we’ve [...]

A Regular Bauhaus-Fest
By stylehound
Posted in Architecture, Art/Museums, General Posts on 23 December 2009
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If you saw my previous post on the Bauhaus exhibit at MOMA (or if you scroll down to it now) you’ll see that MOMA has this terrific extravaganza of all things Bauhaus—paintings, sculpture, furniture, weaving, hands-on-workshops. Everything but a beer garden.
Not only that, but right uptown, at the Guggenheim Museum, there is a huge Kandinsky [...]