Articles in the General Posts Category
25th Anniversary Designer MonthlyPosted 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-FestPosted 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 [...]
Posted in Architecture, General Posts, Green Design on 31 August 2009
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I have to admit that partly I wanted to post this just because this photo is so cool. I love the idea of nature being stronger than the things we build, and this photo exemplifies that.
But it is also part of the publicity for an event in Chicago September 2 that sounds so great I [...]
Posted in General Posts, Interior Design/Decorate, Lifestyle on 20 August 2009
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What a creative, savvy group designers are.
Give them a lousy economy, and they’ll find a way to make it work for them, whether it’s by jumping into the internet or coming up with new ways to sell their skills.
We were so encouraged by this article in the New York Times that we had to [...]
Posted in Color, General Posts, Interior Design/Decorate, Lifestyle, Remodeling on 23 June 2009
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In nosing around for wallpaper ideas, your faithful Stylehound found that the Janovic website has before and after photos of “success stories.” Here’s the current one:
http://janovic.com/inspiration/successstory/
Summertime, and the Livin’ is GreenPosted in Color, Feng Shui, Furniture, General Posts, Green Design, Lifestyle on 22 June 2009
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Summertime and a designer’s thoughts turn to….green design! here on the East Coast of the U.S. the problem of global warming hasn’t seemed terribly apparent, as temps stay low, but we have to remember it isn’t simply the planet heating up we’re worried about—it’s climate CHANGE. And change isn’t always for the best.
And what can [...]
Posted in General Posts, I Want One, Lifestyle on 16 June 2009
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This just in from The Sheffield School of Design’s own wedding planner, Wedding Belle: the site of Emanuela Duca has an amazing range of styles, each distinctive, interesting. Wedding Belle likes this one best, the Musica Engagement Ring:
And The Stylehound loves this funky, twisty tied up metal ring, which makes her think of twisty branches [...]
Posted in Architecture, Furniture, General Posts, Interior Design/Decorate, Lifestyle on 16 June 2009
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From the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the 1980s, Finnish design had a fascinating evolution that designers still learn from today. If you’re planning to be near Helsinki between June 10 and September 6 of this year, check out the exhibit at the Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo. For details, see http://www.mfa.fi/frontpage
Posted in Architecture, Art/Museums, General Posts, Interior Design/Decorate on 10 June 2009
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If you’re in New York City this week and if you’re into architechture, check out the two-day program at the Guggenheim. The title of the program, “Now What Architecutre?” is a quote from Frank Lloyd Wright himself, whose work and life are under discussion by present-day design and architecture greats.
You can go for one day [...]
Posted in General Posts, Lifestyle, Weddings on 29 May 2009
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A recent browse through some of our favorite blogs resulting in our discovery of the “Real Weddings” series on Claire Goodman’s Charlottesville Wedding Blog. The current wedding is actually two in one—the couple had a Hindu ceremony, and then another one the next day.
The photos, by Jen Fariello, are gorgeous, and include a pug in [...]




