STYLE NV Rant - Kirsty Allsopp's Homemade Home

This is not a deformation on Kirsty Allsopp’s character; but when I watch “Kirsty's Homemade Home on Channel 4, I feel my hands tense up and I feel this compulsion deep within me to rise up and throw the television set out of our living room window!http://www.stylenv.co.uk/blogs/blogEntry.cfm?b=45

STYLE NV Wishes Happy Birthday to Gio Ponti

Our Happy Birthday today goes to Gio Ponti, who was born today 18th November in 1891.

Ponti. was an architect, furniture designer and founding editor of Domus magazine. Through his designs and his work at Domus, he was the godfather of Italy's post-war design renaissance . . .http://www.stylenv.co.uk/blogs/blogEntry.cfm?b=43

STYLE NV Wishes Happy Birthday to Isamu Noguchi

A Big Happy Birthday to Isamu Noguchi (pronounced sämoo nogooch) who was born today, 17th November 1904 and would have been 106 years old!

Isamu Noguchi was a Japanese, American sculptor and designer whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward . He sought to make sculpture useful in everyday life. Amoung his furniture work, his collaboration with the Herman Miller company in 1948 where he joined forces with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames is considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture.
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STYLE NV - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PIERRO FORNASETTI

A big fat HAPPY BIRTHDAY to PIERO FORNASETTI, who would have been 97 years old today.




In terms of variety of decoration, Fornasetti’s production of objects and furniture is one of the largest of the 20th century. Fornasetti is celebrated as being among the most original creative talents of the twentieth century. During his career he cdesigned a magical world, filled with wit, that is instantly recognisable and unceasingly engaging.



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STYLE NV RAVE - Rothschild & Bickers Lights

Like giant boiled sweets hanging from the ceiling, Rothschild & Bickers hand blown glass lights look almost edible. Design partners, Victoria Rothschild and Mark Bickers give traditional techniques and design a contemporary twist. The shapes of the lights are traditional but the use of coloured glass, silk tassles and their small size, keeps them modern.




See some of their latest work at Nandos in Glasshouse Street and Ted Baker in Westfield, London.



Tasty treats!
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STYLE NV Rave - Virtually Inspired

You know that lovely house proud kinda feeling you get from throwing tablecloth over a table? You know, ‘rain drops on roses’ is playing in your head and whoosh the tablecloth is up in the air and gently, it falls down. No? Well Daniel O’Riordan from Orchard Studio does and he was inspired by this to create his beautiful cloth pendants.

Homes that STYLE NV Love - Vanessa Battaglia & Brendan Young of Studiomold

Take one small and neglected terrace cottage in Cambridgeshire, add a design couple. Wait for a few hellish months and the result is this small, but perfectly formed house full to the brim with delicious ideas and hidden treasures. If this house was a cake, it would be a rich, tasty Christmas pudding, topped with brandy butter, a holly leaf and stuffed with coppers and buttons.